22 research outputs found
Canyons and Ice: The Wilderness Travel of Dick Griffith
No full textDick Griffith journeyed across Alaska, Canada, Mexico, and the American West. According to Jon Krakauer, "Griffith is simply afflicted with an irresistible inclination to attempt what others say can't be done. When asked what possesses a man to repeatedly strike out alone across hundreds of miles of rugged, lonely country, he replies, 'Every so often, it's just time to walk.'" Kaylene Johnson is author of five books about Alaska including her memoir A Tender Distance: Adventures Raising My Son in Alaska
Licorice Root Resulting in Admission to the Intensive Care Unit
No full textINTRODUCTION Patients commonly use herbal and food supplements and may often assume that a product is safe because it is “natural”; however, many of these products are just as dangerous as any prescription drug. This case report describes the admission of a patient to the intensive care unit after consumption of a food supplement containing licorice root (Glycyrrhiza sp.). The purpose of this report is to illustrate that commonly overlooked items in medication histories, such as food supplements, may lead to life-threatening complications. Detailed history-taking and investigation of herbal products identified in a medication history is essential to good pharmaceutical care
Cricoid Pressure Provides Incomplete Esophageal Occlusion Associated with Lateral Deviation: A Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study
No full textBackground: Cricoid pressure is a routine component of rapid sequence induction and is designed to reduce the risk of reflux and its associated morbidity. Recent studies have raised questions regarding the efficacy of cricoid pressure in terms of changes in the pharyngeal and esophageal anatomy.
Objective: This current descriptive study was designed to observe the anatomical effect of cricoid pressure on the occlusion of esophageal lumen in conscious volunteers using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
Methods: We quantitatively assessed esophageal patency before and during application of cricoid pressure in 20 awake volunteers utilizing MRI.
Results: Target cricoid pressure was achieved in 16 of 20 individuals, corresponding to a mean percentage reduction in cricovertebral distance of 43% (range 25-80%). Cricoid pressure was applied incorrectly in 4 (20%) individuals as evidenced by no change in the cricovertebral distance. Incomplete esophageal occlusion was seen in 10 of 16, or 62.5% (95% confidence interval 35-85%) of individuals when appropriate cricoid pressure was applied. Incomplete esophageal occlusion was always associated with a lateral deviation of the esophagus. None of the 6 subjects with complete occlusion had esophageal deviation during the appropriate application of cricoid pressure.
Conclusion: Effective application of cricoid pressure by an experienced operator frequently resulted in lateral deviation of the esophagus and incomplete occlusion of esophageal lumen. Reliance on cricoid pressure for esophageal occlusion requires further evaluation utilizing functional studies.</p
Intraoperative ketorolac dose of 15 mg versus the standard 30 mg on early postoperative pain after spine surgery: A randomized, blinded, non-inferiority trial
No full textOur perfect wild: Ray and Barbara Bane's journeys and the fate of the Far North
No full textIncludes bibliographical references and index.Map -- Prologue -- "When are we going?" -- One year -- To the top of the world -- Going to the dogs -- Becoming Eskimo -- Ekak -- Learning to fly -- Hungry country -- Hog River Gary -- In the presence of wolves -- The 1200-mile journey -- Through ancient eyes -- A place apart -- Selby Lake -- Birth and trauma -- Line of fire -- Growing pains -- Keeper of the park -- Among bears -- Exxon Valdez -- Katmai carnival -- Reining in the rebel -- Citizens of the natural world -- Epilogue -- Afterward
International Conference on Industry, Engineering, and Management Systems (2009 : Cocoa Beach, Fla.)
No full textDigitized and published in SOAR: Shocker Open Access Repository by Wichita State University Libraries Technical Services, May 2022.The IEMS'09 conference committee: California State University Stanislaus Department of Management, Operations, and Marketing Department (Sponsor); Nael Aly (Conference Co-Chair); Ahmad Elshennawy (Conference Co-Chair); Alfred Petrosky (Program Chair); Adel Ali (Program Coordinator); Nabeel Yousef (Publications Editor)Includes author index.This book features the proceedings of the 15th Annual International Conference on Industry, Engineering and Management Systems (IEMS'09) held March 9-11, 2009 in Cocoa Beach, Florida. Proceedings includes 51 papers presented at the conference.Sponsor: Management, Operations, and Marketing Department, College of Business Administration, California State University, StanislausDefining Core Competencies of an Organization: A Case Study on University Library System / Emre Alptekin, Amhet Kϋğcϋmen, Gϋlfem Alptekin -- Improving Service Quality in a Health Care Facility: A Case Study / R. Radharamanan, Angela P. Ansuj and Jeng-Nan Juang -- Indian River Lagoon Project / Gordon Arbogast, Sheila F. Emanuel and Colonel Paul Grosskruger -- Service Learning Supporting ITEST Initiatives in Rural North Carolina / David Batts and Lee Toderick -- Structuring Cooperative Advertising Arrangements: Any Analysis of Reporting Issues / LuAnn Bean and Angelika Isaacs -- Importance of Lean Manufacturing Techniques in Company Culture / Edwin R. Bellman and Karen L. Bellman -- Information Technology Challenges and the Supply Chain / John J. Burbridge, Jr., Coleman Rich, and Alexander Yap -- A Simulation Model for Enhancing Warehouse Operations in a Paper-Converting Company Using RFID Technology / Ricardo Camilo and S.K. Hargrove -- A Hybrid Approach Based on SVM and Genetic Algorithms (GA) for the Estimation of Early Component Design Stages Manufacturing Cost / N. El Asli, T.M. Dao, V. Songmene -- Orthotic Solutions for Diabetes Mellitus / Amelia C. Davis, Jessica Powell and Ha Van Vo -- Integration Definition for a Genetic Algorithm Group Technology Model / Khaled S. El-Kilany -- Statistical Analysis and Design of Experiments for an Intrabay AMHS Simulation Model Output Data / Ahmed El-Nashar and Khaled S. El-Kilany -- Collision Response Parameterization in Rigid Body Simulations / William Johnson and Khaled El-Sawi -- Verification of Contractor Quality Control (CQC) Program: An Analytical Study to Assess New Trends in Verification Procedures / Ahmed Khalafallah, Ahmad Elshennawy, Nabeel Yousef, Mohamed Abdel-Raheem -- E-Government for Developing Nation-States: Strategies for a Difficult Initiative / Stephen Freund, Adekunle Okunoye and Thilini Ariyachandra -- Project Charter Review Process Design - A Design for Six Sigma Case Study / Sandra Furterer -- Mobile Agent Paradigm: Is it the Solution? / Isaac K. Gang and Dia Ali -- Hands-on Education and Training Provided Online: A Compromise of Quality Education for the Sake of Convenience? / Carrie Craycraft and Sampson Gholston -- A Successful Application of Six-Sigma Methodology for Hotel Service Enhancement: The Case for a Convention Hotel / James P. Gilbert -- A Web Services Based Approach to Mobile Agent Migration and Security / Jean Gourd -- Flash Video Technology Assisted Teaching / Xaioli Huan -- A Lean Six Sigma Assessment Study of Maryland Manufacturer / Deborah Ihezie and S. Keith Hargrove -- A Mobile Agent Simulator / Jeremy Kackley, Paulus Wahjudi, and Dia Ali -- RFID Training in an Industrial Distribution and Logistics Program / Samir Khoury -- Simulating Inventory Tracking and Order Entry Functions in Distribution and Logistics Courses / Samir Khoury, Leslie R. Pagliari, and Mark Angolia -- ProcessingTM Language for Real-Time Image Analysis / Ron Krahe -- VK Conformable Bone Plate / Ha V. Vo and Jonathan B. Ksor -- Preparing Students for Industry: Finite Element Analysis / Alex Mabee, Michael Ferguson, Mark Rawls, and Alexandra Schönning -- The Relationship Between the Length of Adoption of Web Technology and Performance of a Commercial Printing Firm / Devang P. Mehta -- An Expert System from Designers of Multi-Core Processing, Cloud Processing, "SOA," or "C4G" Technology for Advice on Beginning Use of Technology / Robert L. Mullen -- An Intelligent Expert System from Google/Yahoo for those Developing Search Engines / Robert L. Mullen -- A Novel Method to Measure the Intermetatarsal Angle of Foot / Ha Van Vo, Jonathan Whitten, and R. Radharamanan -- Unmanned Underwater Vehicle Mission Planning and Mission Monitoring Prototype / Marvin Roe, Brain Boureois, Ashley Morris -- Google Earth: A Usability Study / Katherine Sachs, Chris Lambert and Yang Chen -- Automatic Sorting Station Utilizing Ladder Logic Programming / Rasoul Saneifard, Jose Guerrero, Kanayo Okafor, Clifford Oluoch -- Microsoft Windows Versus Macintosh: Learnability and Memorability Testing / Ashley Hall, Andrew Peralta and Anna Sargsyan -- Designing and Manufacturing of an Acoustic Panels Test Frame / Micheael Ferguson, Jesse Parkhurst, Alexandra Schönning, Simeon Ochi -- Enterprise Resource Planning the IT Curriculum Using Open-Source ERP / Mark Smith -- Angel Investors and Determinants of Informal Investing / David P. Price and Michael Stoica -- The Challenges of Delivering Quality Online Distance Education Courses: An Empirical Study / Harold Grice, Travis Turner, Nikolas Castro and Tiki L. Suarez-Brown -- Design and Development of a Computerized Drop Foot Treatment Device for Lower Extremity / Ha Van Vo, Jonathan Desa, and R. Radharamanan -- Entrepreneurship Engineering Education Program at MUSE / R. Radharamanan and Ha Van Vo -- Computing-with-Words Agents for Hypothesis Generation and Asessment / Paulus Wahjudi, Shahram Rahimi, Raheel Ahmad and Dia Ali -- An Optimized Multi-Byte High throughout Regular Expression Matching Architecture using FPGAs / Hong Wang -- Integrating Client/Server Computing Course to a Practical Engineering Technology Program / Hong Wang -- Lying Behavior: Part I / Kaylene C. Williams, Edward H. Hernandez, Al Petrosky and Robert Page -- Lying Behavior: Part II / Kaylene C. Williams, Edward H. Hernandez, Al Petrosky and Robert Page -- A Simulation Model to Manufacture Tail Rotor Blades: A Lean Six Sigma Approach / Natasha N. Williams and Keith Hargrove -- Tourism Operations Management: A Survey / Hatice Eris, Mesut Yavuz, Nilgun Figlali, and Alpaslan Figlali -- Production Smoothing with Fuzzy Demand / Mesut Yavuz -- A Manufactory of Echoes: A Marketing Mix Inventory of Online Higher-Education Issues / Al Petrosky, Kaylene Williams, Edward Hernandez and Robert Pag
Gender differences in the authorship of sport management research
No full textIt has been suggested that women in academia operate in a ‘chilly climate’. A chilly climate is characterised by a range of behaviours from overt sexual harassment on the one hand to the subtle and unconscious forms of sexism that impact upon daily life, workload distributions, student evaluations, and promotion and hiring decisions (Prentice, 2000). The purpose of this research is to identify gender differences in the authorship of sport management research. The sport management field provides excellent opportunities to search for gender differences because sport is a gendered institution. The concern is that there may be significant aggregate discrimination because universities, sport and the management of both are significantly shaped by male-dominated values. A content analysis was conducted on four of the leading sport management journals - Sport Management Review (SMR), Journal of Sport Management (JSM), European Sport Management Quarterly (ESMQ), and the European Journal for Sport Management (EJSM). The results indicate that males dominate sport management research and publications – 68% of authors in these journals were male. Fifty-sex percent of the articles were authored without a female author involved compared to only 22% of the articles that were published without a male being credited with being an author. The Journal of Sport Management had the highest proportion of female-author involvement. Female authors were involved in 28% of the articles published and accounted for 39% of al authors listed. Of the twenty-one gender-themed articles identified in JSM, eighteen were female authored whilst the remaining three had mixed-gender authorship. No European-based or Australasian-based female scholars have published gender-themed research in any of the four journals reviewed. These results have obvious implications for women in terms of career advancement but also suggest a problem for the profession as the male domination may also reflect a bias in the research direction and methodologies employed
Future Understanding of Tectonics, Ores, Resources, Environment and Sustainability (FUTORES) II Conference: abstract volume
No full textWith the increasing world population and living standards the demand for mineral and energy resources continues to grow. Future exploration will need to target resources at increasing depths and in areas with cover, and will require an improved understanding of mineral and energy systems and advances in exploration methods and approaches. The Economic Geology Research Centre (EGRU) at James Cook University has organized the FUTORES II conference to summarise recent developments in the exploration and understanding of major types of mineral deposits, to examine the key issues and techniques critical to future minerals and energy exploration, and to discuss the way forward. The conference is being held in tropical Townsville, Queensland, Australia, on 4-7 June 2017. It is following on from the inaugural and highly successful FUTORES conference held in Townsville in 2013.FUTORES II will bring together researchers, explorers and government agencies to address issues related to the sustainable supply and utilisation of mineral and energy resources. The conference has three symposia: the David Groves Symposium - New Insights in Mineral Deposit Understanding, the New Technologies and Approaches in Mineral Exploration Symposium, and the Tectonics, Basins and Resources Symposium. The conference is convened by EGRU, an organisation that was established in 1982 to strengthen the links between research and exploration, to promote exploration-oriented research, and to facilitate knowledge transfer. EGRU has a track record of organising successful major conferences to facilitate the exchange of knowledge and ideas and to stimulate new ideas for cutting-edge research and exploration. The Hydrothermal Odyssey conference in 2001, and the STOMP (Structure, Tectonics and Ore Mineralization Processes) conference in 2005, both attracted over 200 participants. In 2009 EGRU collaborated with the SGA to host the tenth biennial SGA conference in Townsville - Smart Science for Exploration and Mining - which attracted over 480 delegates from around the world. In 2013 the first FUTORES conference attracted around 250 participants from 15 countries. FUTORES II is looking to be equally successful and has so far attracted around 265 registrants. This conference abstract volume contains 134 abstracts covering a wide range of topics related to mineral and energy resources, tectonics and metallogenesis. The abstracts have been reviewed and edited by the Editorial Committee and, in this volume, are organised in alphabetical order of the first author. We thank the delegates for their abstracts and the reviewers for ensuring the quality of the abstract volume
Signalome-wide assessment of host cell response to hepatitis C virus
No full textHost cell signalling during infection with intracellular pathogens remains poorly understood. Here we report on the use of antibody microarray technology to detect variations in the expression levels and phosphorylation status of host cell signalling proteins during hepatitis C virus (HCV) replication. Following transfection with HCV RNA, the JNK and NF-kappa B pathways are suppressed, while the JAK/STAT5 pathway is activated; furthermore, components of the apoptosis and cell cycle control machineries are affected in the expression and/or phosphorylation status. RNAi-based hit validation identifies components of the JAK/STAT, NF-kappa B, MAPK and calcium-induced pathways as modulators of HCV replication. Selective chemical inhibition of one of the identified targets, the JNK activator kinase MAP4K2, does impair HCV replication. Thus this study provides a comprehensive picture of host cell pathway mobilization by HCV and uncovers potential therapeutic targets. The strategy of identifying targets for anti-infective intervention within the host cell signalome can be applied to any intracellular pathogen.Australian Cancer Research Foundation (ACRF); Victorian Department of Industry, Innovation and Regional Development (DIIRD); Australian Phenomics Network (APN); Australian Government's Education Investment Fund through the Super Science Initiative; Australasian Genomics Technologies Association (AGTA); Brockhoff Foundation; Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre Foundation; EU (ERC HEPCAR); EU (H2020 HEPCENT); NIH [U19-AI123862]; Australian Centre for HIV and Hepatitis Virology Research (ACH2)SCI(E)ARTICLE
