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Cumulative Trauma Disorders: Their Recognition and Ergonomic Measures to avoid them
No full textCumulative Trauma Disorders (CTD) refers to a large category of disorders of the muscles, tendons, or nerves and are the summary results of microtrauma caused, precipitated, or aggravated by repeated exertion or movements of the body. They go by many names in the literature. They have become a matter of urgent ergonomic concerns for manufacturers, insurance companies, health care provides, and government agencies. Since CTD are usually caused by repeated and/or forceful exertions, often in the hand-arm-shoulder region. They predominantly occur to soft tissues, such as tendons and ligaments, and to nerves and blood vessels. They are commonly associated with certain occupational and leisure activities. Many CTD can be avoided by a set of fairly simple and straightforward ergonomic procedures. In this presentation, the author will share his views on the epidemiology, pathogenesis and treatment including the ergonomic measures to avoid CTD
How Hong Kong students learn using the study process questionnaire: Cross-cultural comparisons
No full textAnecdotal evidence abounds in Hong Kong to the effect that students entering tertiary education are predisposed to a “rote” learning approach. Until the research studies at City Polytechnic of Hong Kong and Hong Kong Polytechnic, there have been no systematic studies performed locally and as such in the absence of cross-cultural research, there is a tendency to rely on anecdotal statements about Hong Kong students’ approaches to learning. This study was designed to see if Hong Kong Chinese students predisposed to a surface or deep approach to learning react differently when moving progressively from one stage to the next stage in their undergraduate occupational therapy curriculum. This study adopted a longitudinal design method which followed a cohort of 80 undergraduate occupational therapy students over two years and measured their changes in their approaches to learning using the Biggs’ Study Process Questionnaire The internal consistency reliability estimates alpha for SPQ scales for samples of Hong Kong, Australian and British students was compared. The alpha estimates of this study varied from 0.56 to 0.75 which compares favourably with other studies reported in Hong Kong, Australia and U.K. The results of this study indicated that the Hong Kong Chinese students demonstrated a higher mean for the deep approach to learning (47.3 in Year 1 and 46.3 in Year 3) and a lower mean for the surface approach (42.7 in Year 1 and 42.4 in Year 3), similar to other Hong Kong studies from other tertiary institutions in Hong Kong and Australia. From the findings, it is reasonable to conclude that students change their approach according to the different demands imposed by their varied learning needs. Based on this belief, the author while ruling out the potential for misunderstandings about Asian students, draws attention to the cross-cultural differences in approaches to learning which highlights on the changing nature of tertiary classroom and the implications for teaching and learning, with the major shift in the characteristic of student population
DIOPTRA-L: Digital Opinions on Translated Literature
No full textA collection of reviews from Goodreads of various well-known fiction and non-fiction books, and their translations. The metadata has been enriched with computed and annotated values:
- the identifier of the review
- the title of the reviewed book
- the original language in which the book was published
- the edition to which the review refers
- the text of the review
- the language of the review (computed)
- the author of the review (username which cannot be related to a person)
- a computed estimate of the author gender (based on the username)
- the age category of a book's target audience (children / young adult / adult), annotated by experts
- the genre of the book, annotated by experts
- the star rating of the book (1 to 5)
- the tokenised text of the review
- whether or not the review mentions translation (0 for false,1 for true)
- how many tokens are in the review
- how many translation lemmas were found in the revie
FIGURES 6–10. Panguana Field Station and collection methods. 6 in Mantodea of Panguana (Insecta: Dictyoptera)
No full textFIGURES 6–10. Panguana Field Station and collection methods. 6. Partial view of the station. 7. Manually operated light-trap with enery-saving lamps. 8. Manually operated LED light-trap. 9. Automatic lower canopy light-trap. 10. Malaise trap.Published as part of Schwarz, Christian J., Ehrmann, Reinhard, Stiewe, Martin B.D., Mörtter, Rolf & Falkenberg, Michael, 2020, Mantodea of Panguana (Insecta: Dictyoptera), pp. 1-66 in Zootaxa 4824 (1) on page 8, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4824.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/440199
Temperature dependence of the low-energy crystal field excitation in PrOS4Sb12: effect of the energy gap
No full textWe have performed inelastic neutron scattering measurements of the singlet-triplet crystal-field (CF) excitation in the filled skutterudite compound PrOs4Sb12 in the vicinity of the superconducting transition. The CF linewidth decreases sharply below Tc. The decrease is consistent with an isotropic energy gap of 2?/kBTc=6.6±0.8, which is in good agreement with NQR measurements [H. Kotegawa et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, (2003) 027001]. We observe additional scattering that may be due to low-energy vibrational (rattling) modes that may be relevant to the superconductivity.<br/
A Study of the Status of Character Education in Reference to Religion
No full textThe problem of this study is the relation of religion to the development of character. It may be more succinctly and clearly put in the form of a question as follows:|Can there by any real and basic character development without religion? Or is it possible to achieve the highest form of character without the unique contribution of religion? Here we assume the validity of the fact that man is capable of moral as well as mental and physical growth. All of our social institutions for the betterment of humanity are built on that fact as a foundation for all of their undertakings, and we do not need to advance any argument in proof of it here. Neither do we need to prove the expediency and value of developing good character, for that has been established in the social history of the human family. But there is some doubt and uncertainty, as to the relative importance of the respective agencies and methods employed in the business of developing character. Without in any way attempting to minimize the importance of all the other agencies and methods of character education, this study aims to evaluate religion as one of the basic factors in the development of character. The problem then is not merely concerned with the matter of listing religion as one of the many social institutions or organizations that might in some way influence character. All scholars in the field of character education, both those who approach the subject from the standpoint of sociology and those who attack it from the vantage point of psychology, admit that religion in some way influences character, but they differ in their evaluation of this influence, It is our task to evaluate this influence and to show that religion has a unique and vital place in the development of the highest type of character, and without it there can be no well balanced character.ProQuest Traditional Publishing Optio
Magnetic ground states of RMn4Al8, R = La, Pr, Y
No full textYamasaki et al. (Solid State Commun. 119 (2001) 415) have suggested that LaMn4Al8 is a nearly antiferromagnetic metal with linear chains of Mn atoms. We present evidence from ZF-?SR measurements that both LaMn4Al8 and the related compound PrMn4Al8 display antiferromagnetic order at low temperatures. In LaMn4Al8 the ?SR relaxation rate rises to a peak at 4.5 K; below this temperature the asymmetry decreases smoothly. In PrMn4Al8 well-defined oscillations appear below 35 K. Neutron crystal field spectroscopy suggests a singlet ground state for the Pr3+ ion, so it is likely that the internal field seen by the muons arises from ordered Mn moments. YMn4Al8 shows no sign of magnetic correlations down to 1.2 K.<br/
Don't Tell Me What to Do, Tell Me Who to Follow! Field Experiment Evidence on Voluntary Donations
No full textWe conducted a field experiment in a protected area to explore the effects of conformity to a social reference versus a comparable, but imposed, suggested donation. As observed before, we see visitors conforming to the changing social reference. On the other hand, the treatment in which we suggested a donation resulted in lower shares of visitors donating, compared to the social reference treatment, and lower conditional donations even compared to the control. We concluded that visitors look at their peers as a reference to conform to, but partially reject being confronted with an imposed suggestion on how to behave.conformity, donation, field experiment
Introduction
No full textThe introduction to Mythologies, Identities and Territories of Photography: Forever//Now provides a creative turn to conventional introductory chapter writing by using a transcript of an email exchange by two delegates of the conference event on the 15th March 2019. The reciprocal communications of Hefar Gotoph and B.D. Delaire, both academics in the field, chart the period from their invitation to write a co-authored introduction, to the conclusion of their dialogue.
The nature of their conversations discuss the arising issues and contexts from the conference itself with more specific references to each contributors paper within the text, which interplays with the emerging social contexts of Brexit and the COVID-19 pandemic over a ten month period.
Hefar Gotoph is an independent writer and curator working and residing between the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Lithuania and Ukraine. He has worked for many years for a number of universities in Eastern Europe and specialises in inter-disciplinary research and creative practices that combine still and moving image with performance and improvised music.
He is founder and director of the East European Experimental Film Cooperative, and he has written widely for specialist film, photography and performance art journals.
B.D. Delaire is a writer, artist, and Professor of the Université du Luxembourg. They have taught both art history and philosophy across prominent institutions in Europe and America. Their work is informed by contemporary debates about art, politics and philosophy, embracing especially continental philosophy from Kant to the present, psychoanalytical theory, binaries of sceptic space and the Marxist intellectual tradition. They have published, amongst others, ‘After Theo Kerg: Mid Century Tactility of Form’ and ‘Herve Keenke, Knowledge and Truss Revisited’
Modelling magnetic exchange springs in 1D, 2D, and 3D
No full text1D models of magnetic multilayers, with alternating hard and soft layers, are extended to 2D and 3D, and presented within a common framework of nearest neighbour interactions. Using 2D calculations, it is shown that the properties of magnetic exchange springs can be changed significantly by patterning the hard pinning layers. But, in certain cases the bending field BB is not significantly altered, even when half the pinning layer is removed. 3D calculations are used to probe the effects of defects on the properties of magnetic exchange springs, using epitaxial DyFe2/YFe2 superlattices as an example. It is shown that point defects such as Fe vacancies have little effect on the bending field transition. This is in marked contrast to the 1D model, where an Fe vacancy cuts the magnetic exchange spring into two. Finally, it is demonstrated that significant changes in the properties of magnetic exchange springs can be engineered, by placing rare-earth ions in the centre of the soft YFe2 springs. A new phenomenon, exchange spring collapse, is predicte
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