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Physics basis for high-beta, low-aspect-ratio stellarator experiments
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BK15-16
No full textThis book has a page (5538) of three illustrated fables: The Lark and Her Young, The Fox and the Wolf, and The Donkey's Wish. The Fox and the Wolf is told differently; its illustration is done by Harry Neilson. On 5826, AD and DM are told without illustration.This is a hardbound book (hard cover)Holland Thompson and Arthur Me
Current awareness on a shoe string: RSS at the HQC
No full textChristine Neilson ([email protected]) served as the Librarian for the Health
Quality Council from September 2004 to December 2006. She is currently the Outreach
Services Librarian for the Saskatchewan Health Information Resources Partnership
(SHIRP), Health Sciences Library, 107 Wiggins Road, Saskatoon SK, S7N 5E5. The
author would like to thank Maureen Bingham, the Health Quality Council's former
Director of Linkage and Exchange, for offering her insight and supporting the HQC
current awareness projectThere is no shortage of articles describing the nature of blogs and RSS feeds and their
potential use in libraries. However, articles describing the implementation and evaluation
of RSS for library current awareness services and the lessons learned along the way are
harder to find. This case study relates the experience of implementing an RSS feed-based
current awareness service in a small special library in Canada, and the preliminary uptake
and feedback of the staff it serves
Evaluating the procurement documents of Dutch water boards portfolio: A step towards more reliable public clients
No full textAlthough a considerable amount of literature has addressed the public procurement in the construction industry, still little is known about procurement in small and repetitive activities. In practice, however, public clients are often involved in repetitive tasks such as maintenance activities. Dutch water boards, regional governmental bodies responsible for providing water management services, are the focus of this study. For this research, three main procurement documents of the water boards were performed using content analysis. The aim is to evaluate these documents and to identify the typology of the repetitive activities and the procurement volume of these tasks from a portfolio perspective of the public client. Most of the contractors/suppliers involved in these activities are local Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs). The findings of the study indicate that insights into the typologies of these repetitive works and their expected volume over time delivers crucial value for the public procurer. Given the amount of repetitive works procured by public clients, creating such an insight to both clients as well as contractors can ultimately increase efficiency and improve investment opportunities.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository 'You share, we take care!' - Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Design & Construction Managemen
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Recent progress on ATF
No full textThe ATF experiment will test improvements to high-beta, steady-state toroidal confinement using external helical fields. The device design has been optimized to (1) provide direct access to the high-beta second-stability regime, (2) have sufficient flexibility to study a large range of toroidal configurations both with and without plasma current, (3) test the reduction of low-collisionality transport by EXB drifts induced by the self-consistent radial electric field, and (4) permit steady-state, high-beta operation without disruptions. Continued physics studied at ORNL and recent results from foreign stellarator experiments have increased confidence in ATF performance
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High-beta confinement studies in ISX-B
No full textThe following topics were considered: (1) scaling studies, (2) Chi/sub e/ studies, (3) MHD studies, (4) rotation studies, and (5) analysis techniques. (MOW
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Experimental results on tokamak beta limits from ISX-B
No full textIt is observed that the expression Aq/sub psi//kappa=18% defines one of the operational boundaries for ISX-B and other tokamaks. Although this expression closely coincides with the simplest expressions for ideal MHD instability thresholds, it is not obvious that it constitutes a real tokamak beta limit. Confinement degradation is observed well within this operating boundary, and there is neither experimental evidence nor a satisfactory theoretical model connecting this phenomenon with ideal MHD activity
Rethinking our approach to postpartum haemorrhage and uterotonics
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Rethinking our approach to postpartum haemorrhage and uterotonics
BMJ 2015; 351 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.h3251 (Published 08 July 2015)
Cite this as: BMJ 2015;351:h3251
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Andrew D Weeks, professor of international maternal health1, James P Neilson, professor of obstetrics and gynaecology1
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Correspondence to: AD Weeks [email protected]
Accepted 30 March 2015
Andrew Weeks and James Neilson suggest that we have inappropriately generalised evidence on the use of uterotonics from uncomplicated births to all births. They call for stronger focus on women with complex births to reduce deaths from postpartum haemorrhage
Postpartum haemorrhage (defined as a bleed >500 mL) is estimated to affect 1-15% of vaginal births, depending on the definition used, the method of assessing blood loss, the setting, and the population studied. Risk factors include Asian ethnicity, obesity, previous postpartum haemorrhage, multiple pregnancy, anaemia, large baby, age over 40, induction of labour, prolonged labour, placental abruption, and caesarean delivery.1
Although global mortality from postpartum haemorrhage is falling, its incidence is increasing in high resource settings, the reasons for which are unclear.2 3 4 Many of those who survive have severe anaemia, renal failure, or psychological trauma, and the offspring may have difficulties in breast feeding and bonding.
Current best practice globally is for all pregnant women to receive a uterotonic drug at the time of childbirth to prevent postpartum haemorrhage. This recommendation has been in place since the 1980s when randomised trials showed that routine prophylaxis with oxytocin based uterotonic drugs reduced the rate of postpartum haemorrhage.5 The assumption that this would translate into fewer maternal deaths—based on the understanding that atony was the most common cause of haemorrhage related deaths—led to the promotion of active management of the third stage of labour, which comprises a prophylactic uterotonic drug, early cord clamping, and controlled cord traction.
Here we discuss the problems with generalising data from spontaneous vaginal (“normal”) births to complex births, and call for a change in global strategy on postpartum haemorrhage
JoLynn Runolfson Selected as Contributing Author in Fraud Book
No full textJoLynn Runolfson, SOA Lecturer at the Uintah Basin site, has been selected as a contributing author in a soon-to-be published book in the “Fraud Casebook” series authored by Dr. Joseph T. Wells, founder and Chairman of the Board of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners. The book will be focused on financial statement fraud and is expected to be published in late June. JoLynn’s fraud case was chosen as one of only 47 cases out of 100 that were submitted for consideration. Her contribution is a write up for a case she managed while employed by Neilson Elggren LLP about loan losses on securitized asset pools.https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/huntsman_news/1001/thumbnail.jp
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