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Targeting families and teens: Television violence on the WB
No full textThe author investigates the amount of violence contained within WB primetime programs in order to determine The WB\u27s number of violent acts per program and per program hour as well as determine some of the possible effects of The WB\u27s violence. The author sampled one week of WB primetime programming. A definition of violence similar to other violence studies was employed for comparability. The unit of analysis used for coding was the violent act. The author found all WB primetime programs to contain some violence. The most violent WB primetime program was Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the highest number of violent acts aired was found on Tuesday night. The author concludes the majority of WB primetime programs contain a low amount of violence. The author suggests future violence studies employ a single accepted definition of violence and include The WB and UPN programming in their samples
An assessment of the impact of possible CAP reform scenarios on Romanian agriculture
No full textUsing a simplified model, with key-variable the prices of two different possible scenarios of CAP reform after 2013 (moderate and radical), this paper present a comparison between the price effects of implementation of each reform scenario at 2015 horizon on Romanian agriculture. This short analysis shows that, under the presented hypotheses, the net welfare effect, due to the price changes, for the selected products, is positive in both reform scenarios, yet greater in the case of the radical reform. Integrated in the large context of Romanian development, it seems that the influence of CAP reform upon agriculture and rural areas will be most likely a gradual one: an interpenetration between the two scenarios is foreseeable, starting with the moderate reform that will dominate the period around 2013, the reform measures acquiring a more radical character afterwards.CAP reform, Romania, welfare effects, Agricultural and Food Policy,
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Groundwater impact assessment report for the 284-WB Powerplant Ponds
No full textAs required by the Hanford Federal Facility Agreement and Consent Order (Tri-Party Agreement Milestone M-17-00A), this report assesses the impact of wastewater discharged to the 284-WB Powerplant Ponds on groundwater quality. The assessment reported herein expands upon the initial analysis conducted between 1989 and 1990 for the Liquid Effluent Study Final Project Plan
A 0.12mm<sup>2</sup> Wien-Bridge Temperature Sensor with 0.1°C (3σ) Inaccuracy from -40°C to 180°C
No full text Resistor-based temperature sensors can achieve much higher resolution and energy efficiency than conventional BJT-based sensors [1], but they typically occupy more area (> 0.25 mm 2 ) and have lower operating temperatures (le 125 {circ} {C}) [2]-[4]. This work describes a 0.12mm 2 resistor-based sensor that uses a Wien-bridge (WB) filter to achieve 0.1 {circ} {C} (3 sigma) inaccuracy from - 40 {circ} {C} to 180 {circ} {C}. Compared to a state-of-the-art WB sensor [4], it occupies 6 × less area and achieves comparable relative accuracy over a 76% wider operating range. Session 10.3 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.Electronic InstrumentationMicroelectronic
Author's gift inscription in The Illini: A Story of the Prairies
No full textEdition includes a gift inscription from author Clark E. Carr, "Presented to my friend Hon. WB. Brinton with my sincere regards. Clark Elarr. Christmas 1905."Carr, Clark Ezra, 1836-1919
Compassionate care in radiography recruitment, education and training: A post-Francis Report review of the current literature and patient perspectives
No full textThis is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from WB Saunders via the DOI in this record.Compassion is elemental in the care of a patient during their medical imaging (MI) procedure and is highly topical in the light of the Francis Report. The patient–practitioner interaction is an amalgam of context, communication and individual differences, and whilst compassion is a term in common parlance in the media, policy and radiographers' professional documents, its meaning and manifestation in radiography recruitment, education and practice are less clearly articulated. A review of the existing literature was undertaken, including a small scale study exploring patients' experiences in diagnostic medical imaging. Themes from the study included communication; competence; emotions; attitudes and relationships, but notably absent was any mention of compassion per se. Radiography research would benefit from further exploratory work into the nature of compassionate patient care in the unique context of the medical imaging encounter; offering an evidence-based contribution to radiography in the light of the Francis Report.Funding for the preliminary study came from the Higher Education Academy. The doctoral research from which this review article was written is self-funded by the corresponding author
Optical map of the genotype A1 WB C6 Giardia lamblia genome isolate
No full textAuthor Posting. © The Author(s), 2011. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of Elsevier B.V. for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology 180 (2011): 112-114, doi:10.1016/j.molbiopara.2011.07.008.The Giardia lamblia genome consists of 12 Mb divided among 5 chromosomes ranging in size from approximately 1 to 4 Mb. The assembled contigs of the genotype A1 isolate, WB, were previously mapped along the 5 chromosomes on the basis of hybridization of plasmid clones representing the contigs to chromosomes separated by PFGE. In the current report, we have generated an MluI optical map of the WB genome to improve the accuracy of the physical map. This has allowed us to correct several assembly errors and to better define the extent of the subtelomeric regions that are not included in the genome assembly.This work was funded in part by the Woods Hole Center for Oceans and Human Health, jointly funded by the National Science Foundation (OCE-0430724) and the National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences (P50 ES012742)
Right-Wing and Left-Wing Critiques of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank (WB)
No full textThis paper discusses the critiques forming the debate on the future of the two major global financial institutions – the IMF and the WB. The author does not claim what the IMF and the WB really are, but reviews how they are seen by their critics. The article describes and summarizes the multifaceted critical discussion and proposes an elementary scheme formed by four basic positions. These are based on two variables: (1) moderation or radicalism of the critiques; (2) their affiliation with the right or the left side of the political spectrum. As a result, four basic critical positions emerge: right reformers, right radicals, left reformers, and left radicals. This paper characterizes each of them by overviewing the opinions of two representative participants of the discussion
Longitudinal WB-IGRA results among HHC.
No full text<p>Whole blood was obtained from a subset of eligible subjects at study enrollment (baseline) and time of initial TST conversion. WB-IGRA were performed using Mtb Ag85B (A) and whole Mtb H37Ra (B) as T cell stimulus. Boxes indicate the interquartile ranges, horizontal lines transecting boxes indicate medians, and whiskers indicate highest and lowest values. At study entry (baseline), no significant differences were noted between reverters and stable converters for either stimulus. At the time of conversion, subjects with stable conversion produced significantly more IFN-γ than reverters in response to both Mtb Ag85B and whole Mtb H37Ra (A, B). Moreover, IFN-γ production significantly increased among stable converters between enrollment and conversion, while there were no significant changes noted for reverters. Statistical comparison between groups was performed using Wilcoxon rank sum test, and comparison with groups performed with Wilcoxon sign-rank test (p< 0.05 considered significant).</p
Breathing With Heart Failure
No full textThe syndrome of heart failure (HF) is often accompanied by numerous derangements in ventilatory function. These pathophysiological changes in ventilatory function are believed to augment the mechanical work required to breathe during exercise (Wb). However, the precise contributions of resistive and elastic work to this overall higher Wb in HF remain unclear.
PURPOSE: To quantify the resistive and elastic components of Wb during exercise in HF patients and age-matched, healthy controls at standardized levels of minute ventilation ( ).
METHODS: The elastic and resistive Wb were assessed in 9 male HF patients (NYHA class I-III) and 9 age-matched, healthy male controls at minute ventilations of 20, 40, 60 and 80 L[BULLET OPERATOR]min-1 during graded exercise. The components of Wb were quantified using oesophageal manometry and modified Campbell diagrams.
RESULTS: Dynamic lung compliance was lower across all minute ventilations in HF patients (P<0.05). Moreover, the inspiratory and expiratory resistive Wb was higher in HF patients compared with controls at any given (P<0.05). The inspiratory elastic Wb was higher at minute ventilations of 40-60 L[BULLET OPERATOR]min-1 during exercise in HF patients. (P<0.05).
CONCLUSIONS: The findings of this study indicate that the overall higher Wb in HF patients may be more so related to greater amounts of resistive than elastic Wb during exercise.No Full Tex
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