513 research outputs found
Prescribing by mental health nurses: the UK perspective
No full textPURPOSE. This article aims to discuss the growth of mental health nurse (MHN) prescribing in the United Kingdom as an exemplar for readers to compare progress in their own countries and context. This study also aims to provide a historical overview of this process in the United Kingdom where MHNs prescribe safely and competently.
CONCLUSIONS. Finally, evidence has shown that MHNs with prescriptive authority are competent when prescribing when compared to psychiatrists.
PRACTICE IMPLICATIONS. Despite organizational barriers and educational concerns, MHN prescribing is becoming embedded in the healthcare context in the United Kingdo
<span style="font-size: 22.5pt;mso-bidi-font-size:15.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">Superconducting properties of K<sub><span style="font-size:17.5pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">0.2</span></sub><span style="font-size:22.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size:15.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">Ba<sub><span style="font-size:17.5pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.5pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">0.5</span></sub><span style="font-size:22.5pt;mso-bidi-font-size:15.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">Y<sub><span style="font-size:17.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">0.3</span></sub><span style="font-size:22.5pt;mso-bidi-font-size:15.5pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">CuO<sub>x</sub> powder compacts </span></span></span></span>
No full text646-650<span style="font-size:
15.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:" times="" new="" roman","serif""="">Measurements
of the electrical resistivity and thermoelectric power for sintered samples of K<span style="font-size:17.5pt;
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font-family:" times="" new="" roman","serif";mso-bidi-font-weight:bold"="">0.3CuOx<span style="font-size:15.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:" times="" new="" roman","serif""=""> , system were
carried out. Two sets of the samples were prepared, the first set was sintered
in air and the second set was sintered during flowing oxygen. The temperature
dependence of the resistivity was found to be similar to that of metals.
Further, the zero resistance was attained at <span style="font-size:
15.5pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.5pt;font-family:" times="" new="" roman","serif""="">91-95 K
depending on the sintering time. The author believes that, the prolonged
sintering time caused oxygen vacancies (which may reside either along
central-cage Cu-O chains) to become positively charged on trapping the hole,
and thus enhance the superconductivity. The thermoelectric power of all samples
was found to possess plus sign and decreases slightly with decreasing
temperature, and then it falls clown to zero, at the critical temperature (Tc).
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Does Firm Ownership Differentiate Environmental Compliance? Evidence from Indian Chromite Mining Industry
No full textThis paper compares the environmental performance of public and private firms in the context of Indian chromite mining industry. It proposes a new methodology to measure firms’ environmental performance in a multidimensional framework. Comparison of unidimensional and multidimensional environmental defiance indices reveal no significant difference between the public and private firms.Firm ownership, Multi Dimensional Environmental Compliance
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT; mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">Microhardness, dilatometric and electrostriction studies on NaH<sub>2</sub>PO<sub>4</sub>-H<sub>3</sub>BO<sub>3</sub> binary system</span>
No full text88-90<span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;
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author reports the microhardness, electrostrictive and thermal expansive
coefficients of NaH2PO4-H3BO3binary
system. Elastic stiffness coefficient of NaH2PO4-H3BO3
has been calculated from the microhardness data; further the electrostrictive
results of this binary are observed to be supportive to the microhardness data.
Thermal expansion coefficient and crystallographic data of NaH2PO4
and NaH2PO4-H3O3 binary are
compared.</span
Testing protoplanetary disc dispersal with radio emission
No full textWe consider continuum free–free radio emission from the upper atmosphere of protoplanetary discs as a probe of the ionized luminosity impinging upon the disc. Making use of previously computed hydrodynamic models of disc photoevaporation within the framework of extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) and X-ray irradiation, we use radiative transfer post-processing techniques to predict the expected free–free emission from protoplanetary discs. In general, the free–free luminosity scales roughly linearly with ionizing luminosity in both EUV- and X-ray-driven scenarios, where the emission dominates over the dust tail of the disc and is partial optically thin at cm wavelengths. We perform a test observation of GM Aur at 14–18?GHz and detect an excess of radio emission above the dust tail to a very high level of confidence. The observed flux density and spectral index are consistent with free–free emission from the ionized disc in either the EUV- or the X-ray-driven scenario. Finally, we suggest a possible route to testing the EUV- and X-ray-driven dispersal model of protoplanetary discs, by combining observed free–free flux densities with measurements of mass-accretion rates. On the point of disc dispersal one would expect to find an M?2? scaling with free–free flux in the case of EUV-driven disc dispersal or an ?* scaling in the case of X-ray-driven disc dispersa
THE BAPTISMAL FONT WITH THE NAME»VUISSASCLAVO DUCI« AND THE PROBLEM OF THE NIN BAPTISTERY
No full textThe paper deals with the well-known baptismal font.co.mmissione.d by»the priest John (Johannes) in the duke Višeslav's (VUlsst.S~lavus) tIm.e«.The author points out that the font has never been a~propnately studiedin spite of numerous articles dedicated to it. Accordmg. to th~ style ofexecution it was dated to the late Sth or early 9th cen~tmes, while M. Seper on the basis of the same .s~lis~c feature~ dated l.t to the 11th century. If priest John were identified WIth the pnest bearmg the saII?-e .namewho was mentioned in pope's letters to the Croatian duke Branmnr (asearlier authors believed) the font could be dated in the last quarter of the 9th century. The font is supposed to have been originally at Nin from which it was taken to Venice in 1746. This is the suppostion of the historian G. Ferrari-Cupilli from Zadar who in this way explained the datum that a font from Nin misteriously dissappeared in unknown direction, when the baptistery construction was destroyed in 1746. The author of this paper would like this supposition to be tested by archaeological excavations, since there are such possibilities. Earlier excavation lacking scholarly approach, undertaken by L. Jelić in 1910, was led in the wrong direction
Antirrhinum valentinum Font Quer, BC 1926
No full text<i>Antirrhinum valentinum</i> Font Quer (1926: 5, tab. II) <p> <b>Type</b> (lectotype [first-step], designated by Rothmaler (1956: 57)):— [SPAIN]: <i>Valencia</i>; Mt. Monduber, supra Gandia, 600 m, 7 June 1923 <i>Font Quer 81</i> (BC).</p> <p> <b>Type</b> (lectotype [second-step], designated here):—(BC82525, isolectotypes BC82524, BC82587, BC862362, BCN3499, B 10 0296110, BM000613005, GH00077919, K000806733, MPU694441, S10-19891). Fig. 10.</p> <p> Font Quer (1926: 5) described <i>Antirrhinum valentinum</i> providing a description and two geographical localities and gatherings “Hab. in fissuris rupium calcarearum montibus supra Xeresa, ad 200 m. alt., et in latere occidentale montis Monduber, ca. 600 m. (Regno Valentino), ubi majo mense 1923, legi”. The protologue also provided an excellent illustration (Font Quer 1926: tab. 2) that can be considered original material.</p> <p> Rothmaler (1956: 57) indicated: “ Typus: Valentia, Mt. Monduber pr. Jativa, 600 m (Font Quer, BC)”. Later, Sutton (1988: 75) mentioned: “ Type: SPAIN: <i>Valencia</i>; Mt. Mondúber, supra Gandia, 600 m, 7 vi 1923 <i>Font Quer 81</i> (syn. BC, isosyn. BM! JE! K!)”. Effectively, in the herbarium BC, of the Institut Botànic de Barcelona, there are material from the gathering collected in “Mondúber, ad 600 m alt.” in 7 June 1923 by Font Quer. Concretely, there are four specimens at BC belonging to this gathering, with barcodes BC82524, BC82525, BC82587 and BC862362. These four specimens contain the same print label: “Institutus Botanicus Barcinonensis / Flora Iberica Selecta / Cent. I Dec. 1934 / 81. Antirrhinum valentinum Font Quer / Illustr. Fl. Occid., I, 1, p. 5, t. II (1926). / Valentia: in fissuris rupium calcarearum montis Mondúber, supra / Gandia, ad 600 m alt. Cotypus. / Leg. Font Quer, 7 junii 1923”.</p> <p>On the other hand, among the original material, we have located other specimens that belong to the gatherings mentioned in the protologue, and therefore syntypes.The sheets with barcodes B 10 0296110, BCN3499, BM000613005, GH00077919, K000806733, MPU694441, S10-19891 contain specimens belonging to the gathering collected in “Mondúber” in 7 June 1923, and the sheet with barcode SANT7186 bears a specimen labelled “pr. Xeresa (Regno Valentino) / in rupestribus ad. 150 m. alt. / F. Q., 28 majii 1923”, the other gathering cited in the protologue from “Xeresa” on 28 May 1923, the date mentioned in the protologue by Font Quer “ubi majo mense 1923”.</p> <p> The Rothmaler’s designation should be regarded as a valid type designation, specifically a lectotype (<i>ICN</i> Art. 9.3). However, this designation is narrowed to a single specimen by a second-step lectotypification according to Art. 9.17 to the <i>ICN</i>. The specimen designated as the lectotype of the name <i>Antirrhinum valentinum</i> is the most complete and informative material from the four specimens that make up the gathering cited by Rothmaler (and also by Sutton as “ syntypi ”), with barcode BC82525 (Fig. 10).</p> <p> Finally, regarding to the term “cotypus” indicated by Font Quer in the labels of these specimens, this term is not defined in the <i>ICN</i> (Turland <i>et al</i>. 2018), and it has not an official status. A “cotype” [incl. clastotype (see Swingle 1912)] is a fragment or duplicate specimen of the type [i.e. isotype, isolectotype, isoneotype or isoepitype according to Art. 9.4 footnote of the <i>ICN</i>]. However, the inclusion of the term “cotypus” by the author in the labels allows to treat them as duplicate specimens according to <i>ICN</i> Art. 8.3 footnote.</p>Published as part of <i>Ferrer-Gallego, P. Pablo, Fabado, Javier & Güemes, Jaime, 2021, Typification of seven names in the genus Antirrhinum (tribe Antirrhineae, Plantaginaceae), pp. 211-230 in Phytotaxa 511 (3)</i> on pages 223-226, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.511.3.2, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/5426729">http://zenodo.org/record/5426729</a>
Applying generative modeling to font glyphs
No full textThesis: M. Eng., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2018.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis.Includes bibliographical references (pages 67-68).Today, designers work in tandem with computerized tools to create stylized graphic designs, diagrams, and icons. In this work, we explore the applications of generative modeling to the design of vectorized drawings, with a focus on font glyphs. We establish a data-driven approach for creating preliminary graphics upon which designers can iterate. To accomplish this, we present an end-to-end pipeline for a supervised training system on Scalable Vector Graphics (SVGs) that learns to reconstruct training data and produce similar but novel examples. We demonstrate its results on selected characters using a Google Fonts dataset of 2552 font faces. Our approach uses a variational autoencoder to learn sequences of SVG drawing commands and is capable of both recreating ground truth inputs and generating unseen, editable SVG outputs. To investigate improvements to model performance, we perform two experiments: one on the effects of various SVG feature encodings on generated outputs, and one on a modified architecture that explicitly encodes style and class separately for multi-class generation.by Kimberli Zhong.M. Eng
Font size modulates saccade-target selection in Chinese reading
No full textIn alphabetic writing systems, saccade amplitude (a close correlate of reading speed) is independent of font size, presumably because an increase in the angular size of letters is compensated for by a decrease of visual acuity with eccentricity. We propose that this invariance may (also) be due to the presence of spaces between words, guiding the eyes across a large range of font sizes. Here, we test whether saccade amplitude is also invariant against manipulations of font size during reading Chinese, a character-based writing system without spaces as explicit word boundaries for saccade-target selection. In contrast to word-spaced alphabetic writing systems, saccade amplitude decreased significantly with increased font size, leading to an increase in the number of fixations at the beginning of words and in the number of refixations. These results are consistent with a model which assumes that word beginning (rather than word center) is the default saccade target if the length of the parafoveal word is not available.http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000287252900017&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=8e1609b174ce4e31116a60747a720701PsychologyPsychology, ExperimentalSCI(E)SSCI12ARTICLE2482-4907
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