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Supplemental_Material - Hospital Building and Departmental Area Calculation: Comparison of 36 Recent North American Projects
No full textSupplemental_Material for Hospital Building and Departmental Area Calculation: Comparison of 36 Recent North American Projects by Sarel Lavy, D. Kirk Hamilton, Yin Jiang, Amy Kircher, M. K. Dixit, and Jin-Ting Lee in HERD: Health Environments Research & Design Journal</p
Does food aid depress food production? The disincentive dilemma in the African context
No full textFood aid averages only ten percent of total financial aid to developing countries, but in certain African countries - Botswana, Cape Verde, Mauritius, and Mauritania - it represents more than half the food available for consumption. The author applies vector auto-regression (VAR) analysis to data for sub-Saharan Africa to test these hypotheses. The issue is not whether food aid is good or bad but how it can be used to promote economic development and improve the nutrition of the food-insecure. The author found that food aid has a significant positive effect on food production. Any disincentive induced by the additional supply of food is offset by the positive effects. Food aid is also more likely to have a positive effect in countries that use fertilizer intensively. One possible explanation for this is that countries that enjoy a relative abundance of regular food aid can use the resources made available through reduced food imports to invest more in the agricultural sector - which is more likely when such an investment is a condition imposed by the aid donors.Food&Beverage Industry,Food&Nutrition Policy,Development Economics&Aid Effectiveness,Environmental Economics&Policies,School Health
Dr. Duane M. Jackson, Morehouse College, July 2011
No full textThis video is a conversation with Dr. Duane M. Jackson. Dr. Jackson talks about his paper, "Recall and the Serial Position Effect: The Role of Primacy and Recency on Accounting Students' Performance." Jackie Daniel, AUC Woodruff Library, is the interviewer
"Reflections on the subject of Emigration from Europe with a view to Settlement in the United States" By M. Carey.
No full text"Reflections on the subject of Emigration from Europe with a view to Settlement in the United States: containing bried sketches of the moral and political character of those states.
By M. Carey, member of the American philosophical, and of the American Antiquarian Society, and author of The Olive Branch, Cindiciae Hibernicae, essays on banking, on political economy, and on internal improvement.
To which are now added the English editor's comments on the subject; together with Important Advice to Emigrants, and Cautions Against Impositions Practiced in the Outports
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Présages tirés du pouls : d'après l'école de sphygmique / par M. le Dr Jean Lavy,...
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Dr. Glendon Swarthout
No full textHosted by Roger M. Busfield, MSU Assistant Professor of Speech and Theater, Meet the Author is designed to introduce a general audience to a contemporary author and their work through in-depth interviews. This episode features a conversation between Dr. Glendon Swarthout, prolific author and English professor at MSU, and assistant professors Sam S. Baskett and Theodore B. Strandness
Terrestrial Laser Scanner Acquisition For Snow Depth and Groundwater Recharge Quantification in an Alpine Basin
No full textClimate change is the main factor that induces alterations in the hydrological cycle and mountains represent its first indicators, because they respond rapidly and intensely to climatic and environmental modifications. Obtaining reliable scenarios on water resources availability is a prerequisite to planning management measures. The snowfall and the resulting seasonal snow cover represent an important source of water, including surface and subsurface flows. A terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) was employed to measure snow depth and snow cover in the Mascognaz basin at 1850 m (Ayas municipality, Regione Autonoma Valle d'Aosta, Italy). We choose this site because the Politecnico di Torino installed an advanced meteorological station in 2010 (equipped with sensors measuring snow depth, snow density and snow water equivalent). Furthermore downstream the area are located two springs, both equipped with probes measuring water level, temperature and electrical conductivity. The aim of this study is to recognize the accumulation areas from melting areas through the generation of high dense digital snow elevation model. In this way is possible better understand the snowmelt process that contributes widely to the groundwater recharge. We used the Riegl VZ 4000 that is very powerful for measurements of snowcovered surfaces in high alpine catchment thanks to the long-range acquisition. The TLS monitoring consists in three phases: a summer acquisition, with the purpose to obtain a DSM (Digital Surface Model); a winter acquisition, that aims to evaluate accurately the snow cover and the snow accumulation areas and a spring acquisition with the purpose to investigate the snow-pack development and evaluate the available volume of water generate by snow during the melting phenomena. Finally, we used the ArcGIS 10.2 software to improve spatial analysis evaluation, estimate the Snow Water Equivalent (SWE). and obtain important information on the amount of water resources available for human consumptio
Simulation of thermal plant optimization and hydraulic aspects of thermal distribution loops for large campuses
No full textFollowing an introduction, the author describes Texas A&M University and its utilities system. After that, the author presents how to construct simulation models for chilled water and heating hot water distribution systems. The simulation model was used in a $2.3 million Ross Street chilled water pipe replacement project at Texas A&M University. A second project conducted at the University of Texas at San Antonio was used as an example to demonstrate how to identify and design an optimal distribution system by using a simulation model. The author found that the minor losses of these closed loop thermal distribution systems are significantly higher than potable water distribution systems. In the second part of the report, the author presents the latest development of software called the Plant Optimization Program, which can simulate cogeneration plant operation, estimate its operation cost and provide optimized operation suggestions. The author also developed detailed simulation models for a gas turbine and heat recovery steam generator and identified significant potential savings. Finally, the author also used a steam turbine as an example to present a multi-regression method on constructing simulation models by using basic statistics and optimization algorithms. This report presents a survey of the author??s working experience at the Energy Systems Laboratory (ESL) at Texas A&M University during the period of January 2002 through March 2004. The purpose of the above work was to allow the author to become familiar with the practice of engineering. The result is that the author knows how to complete a project from start to finish and understands how both technical and nontechnical aspects of a project need to be considered in order to ensure a quality deliverable and bring a project to successful completion. This report concludes that the objectives of the internship were successfully accomplished and that the requirements for the degree of Degree of Engineering have been satisfied
Elevated Expression of Moesin in Muscular Dystrophies
No full textFibrosis is the main complication of muscular dystrophies. We identified moesin, a member of the ezrin-radixin-moesin family, in dystrophic muscles of mice representing Duchenne and congenital muscular dystrophies (DMD and CMD, respectively) and dysferlinopathy, but not in the wild type. High levels of moesin were also observed in muscle biopsy specimens from DMD, Ullrich CMD, and merosin-deficient CMD patients, all of which present high levels of fibrosis. The myofibroblasts, responsible for extracellular matrix protein synthesis, and the macrophages infiltrating the dystrophic muscles were the source of moesin. Moesin-positive cells were embedded within the fibrotic areas between the myofibers adjacent to the collagen type I fibers. Radixin was also synthesized by the myofibroblasts, whereas ezrin colocalized with the myofiber membranes. In animal models and patients' muscles, part of the moesin was in its active phosphorylated form. Inhibition of fibrosis by halofuginone, an antifibrotic agent, resulted in a major decrease in moesin levels in the muscles of DMD and CMD mice. In summary, the results of this study may pave the way for exploiting moesin as a novel target for intervention in MDs, and as part of a battery of biomarkers to evaluate treatment success in preclinical studies and clinical trials
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