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The research makes an original contribution to contemporary debates on cultural value in considering the cross-sector role and impact of collaborative leadership. |
Social Intellisense: A Task-Embedded Interface to Folksonomies |
We present an application for accessing and creating socially constructed sets of information. Users store and retrieve information, such as bits of text, through the use of “keys” consisting of node names strung together using periods (e.g., “conferences.icwsm.dates”) that point to user-added content (“May 23-26, 201... |
A Cautionary Tale About Cautionary Tales About Intervention |
Expressions of discomfort or concern with interventions by radical social science movements, such as Critical Management Studies (CMS) or Science and Technology Studies (STS) in public controversies have rested heavily on two concerns: first, that radical social science is not useful to institutions like business and, ... |
Disclosed is a cap-nut fluid type coupling wherein piping welded to said coupling is less liable to twist or does not twist at all when the cap nut is tightened. The fluid joint coupling for clamping the cap nut has a ring-shaped groove formed on the contacting surface of the sleeve with the cap nut to rotatably hold t... |
Adaptive designs are gaining popularity in early phase clinical trials because they enable investigators to change the course of a study in response to accumulating data. We propose a novel design to simultaneously monitor several endpoints. These include efficacy, futility, toxicity and other outcomes in early phase, ... |
In this article, we consider path planning for car-like robots in a new way, adding a continuous-curvature condition to the paths. As the optimal paths are too complex to be used, we deene a type of continuous-curvature paths inspired of the Dubins' curves. These paths contain at most seven pieces, each piece being eit... |
In this paper, an adaptive technique is presented for processing the output of a sensor array, which simultaneously estimates the number of sources and their directions of arrival. The method is based on the reformulation of the problem in the time domain, and the use of the adaptive multi-model partitioning algorithm ... |
It is shown that in dynamics of the development of experimental glaucoma, simulated in rabbits, there takes place accumulation of lipid peroxidation products in the blood of animals. It is recorded that with the rise of intraocular pressure, tonographic and rheographic changes in the development of the glaucomatous pro... |
BACKGROUND |
Despite advances in prevention, detection, and treatment, cholera remains a major public health problem in Bangladesh and little is known about cholera outside of limited historical sentinel surveillance sites. In Bangladesh, a comprehensive national cholera control plan is essential, although national data are needed ... |
METHODS |
We conducted systematic hospital-based cholera surveillance among diarrhea patients in 22 sites throughout Bangladesh from 2014 to 2018. Stool specimens were collected and tested for Vibrio cholerae by microbiological culture. Participants' socioeconomic status and clinical, sanitation, and food history were recorded. ... |
RESULTS |
Among 26 221 diarrhea patients enrolled, 6.2% (n = 1604) cases were V. cholerae O1. The proportion of diarrhea patients positive for cholera in children <5 years was 2.1% and in patients ≥5 years was 9.5%. The proportion of cholera in Dhaka and Chittagong Division was consistently high. We observed biannual seasonal pe... |
CONCLUSIONS |
Cholera occurs throughout a large part of Bangladesh. Cholera-prone areas should be prioritized to control the disease by implementation of targeted interventions. These findings can help strengthen the cholera-control program and serve as the basis for future studies for tracking the impact of cholera-control interven... |
iment with policy prior to actual formulation and passage of policies or laws allowed a highly unusual degree of policy flexibility” (p. 97). While Heilmann’s appreciation of the PRC’s “experience first, laws later” approach to breaking national policy deadlocks seems well placed, his seeming frustration with other sys... |
We consider a link adaptation scheme with adaptive coding and modulation and adaptive retransmissions on a block fading channel. Therefore, we characterize the performance of the employed channel code with puncturing and repetition coding in a unified way and use this description to devise a method to adapt modulation ... |
Changes in gene expression could play a central role in the phenotypic abnormalities of the retinal vascular cells observed in diabetic retinopathy and other retinal diseases. To measure gene expression in human retinal microvessels, a RNA-probe excess solution hybridization assay was used. Retinal microvessels were is... |
18.5S and 7S immunoglobulins were purified from sera of horned sharks immunized with Brucella abortus . Both preparations had antibody activity, which was abolished more readily by reduction with dithiothreitol than with cysteine. Chromatography on Sephadex G-100 columns, in 6 M guanidine-HCl, disclosed that partial re... |
A 54-year-old male was admitted to Kawasaki Medical School Hospital with the complaint of fever. His diagnosis of hypoplastic leukemia had been made one year ago. After the admission, cecal mass with pain and high fever were noted. Four days later, he suddenly lost consciousness and died. Aeromonas hydrophila was isola... |
High density implantable microelectrode arrays record large amounts of highly correlated data, which causes large strains on limited bandwidth telemetry systems. Previous work has shown that the use of a spatial filter can significantly reduce the number of channels that must be transmitted to adequately represent the ... |
Abstract This experimental study, performed under microgravity conditions, focuses on the evaporation dynamics of ethanol drops and the formation and behaviour of the hydrothermal waves that spontaneously develop on the drop surfaces. The aim of this study is to compare our results to a similar study performed under no... |
This paper presents a novel designing approach for tunable bandstop filters (BSPs) with constant absolute bandwidth (CABW). A simple bandstop unit is introduced to design tunable BSPs. Through the analysis, the bandwidth and center frequency of the unit can be fully controlled. Furthermore, when the center frequency is... |
We studied mechanisms responsible for reproductive skew in female Alpine marmots. In each social group, only dominant females produced weaned young although subordinate females had similar body condition, were fertile as indicated by high levels of oestradiol during the mating season, and occasionally started pregnanci... |
ABSTRACT The Blade Element Momentum (BEM) theory is most commonly utilized to quickly assess the performance of horizontal axis wind turbine. However, the BEM theory requires the aerodynamic characteristic of the airfoil to evaluate the performance. Generally, the aerodynamic characteristics of airfoil in BEM theory fo... |
Abstract. The allometry between baculum size, body size and body condition was studied in the polecat (Mustela putorius). The aim of this study was to investigate whether penis size is dependent on body size. We also calculated the correlation between the size of the baculum and body condition. Our research was based o... |
Abstract Self–other differentiation requires both that one can understand the actions others perform, and that one can attribute these actions to them. Understanding implies that a complete description of the actions of other agents can be available in the brain of the observer. Attributing implies that the agent can b... |
This paper studies the communication efficiency of threshold secret sharing schemes. We construct a family of Shamir's schemes with asymptotically optimal decoding bandwidth for arbitrary parameters. We also construct a family of secret sharing schemes with both optimal decoding and optimal repair bandwidth for arbitra... |
In this paper, five female scholars of color utilize the method of testimonio (testimony) to document their individual lived experiences as members of a three-year long research and writing collective. This collective served as a space of liberation from the dominant discourses and practices the women were experiencing... |
Recently, Buruli ulcer is emerging from the West and Central African countries. The disease come up with necrotizing and immno-suppressive type ulcer in the skin, subcutaneous tissue and bone, infected by Mycobacterium ulcerans, and shows indolent chronic course as mycobacterial infection, like tuberculosis and Hansen'... |
Hardware software co-design is gaining importance with the advent of CAD for embedded systems. A key phase in such designs is partitioning the specification into hardware and software implementation sets. The problem being combinatorically explosive, several greedy search algorithms have been proposed for hardware soft... |
This article is focused on general proposals prepared for the use of the High-level experts group on the Centre for the settlement of investment disputes of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) in order to assist the regional organization improving the current state of the investor-state dispute settlement syst... |
The ship repair process in shipyards is a complex one and its components are usually influenced by a significant number of factors with random variability. The retention period of a ship in the shipyard for repair works present a particular interest, both for the shipyard and for the beneficiary of the repair works. In... |
In these years, plant control systems are being highly automated. But the control performances change with the passage of time, so it is necessary to tune them. This is why human experts tune the control system to improve the total plant performances. In this study, PID control system for the oil refining chemical plan... |
Sound sources within power station boundaries contribute to overall plant noise level with different energy levels, spectra, and radiation characteristics. This paper attempts to identify characteristics and describe major plant sound producing equipment and their noise producing mechanisms with octave band and narrowe... |
Objective To develop and evaluate syndrome definitions for the identification of acute unintentional drug overdose events including opioid, heroin, and unspecified substances among emergency department (ED) visits in Virginia. Introduction Nationally, deaths due to opioid overdose have continually increased for the pas... |
Bi1−xTbxFeO3 (x = 0, 0.01, 0.03 and 0.05) nanoparticles are synthesized by the sol-gel method. A single phase perovskite rhombohedral structure of all the samples is established from the Rietveld refined XRD patterns. The substitution of Tb3+ ions to Bi3+ decreases the particle size and enhances the ferromagnetic prope... |
273 Overall, the editors fail to produce a well-integrated volume, and have left out some important representative developments such as molecular biology. Nevertheless, their collection represents a fresh and daring effort to explore the true impact of the Cultural Revolution on Chinese science, technology, and medicin... |
This article summarises the findings from two of the case studies carried out in England, one for the OECD study and the other for the IEA study. More information about the two projects can be found at http://bert.eds.udel.edu/oecd/cases/casesframe.html and http://sitesm2.org. It is important to note that the findings ... |
The clothing industry is traditionally well developed branch of industry in Bulgaria Harmful factors of manufacture are forced posture, monotonous work, noise, vibration, poisons etc. At the beginning of 2016, the persons directly employed in the sector add up to 92 000, representing 6% of the employees in Bulgaria. A... |
For the purposes of the study, 103 persons employed in clothing industry, with impairments of the musculoskeletal system and the peripheral nervous system, were investigated. They were admitted to the Department of Occupational Diseases, of the University Hospital in Pleven during the period 2014-2017. Data were colle... |
Analysis of the results revealed a statistically significant inverse association between performance of daily life activities and length of exposure of patients (p < 0.05). This means that increasing length of exposure restrict the abilities of the investigated persons to perform daily life activities. About 62% of th... |
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