197,385 research outputs found
MODELING REGIONAL ALTERNATIVE MANAGEMENT SCENARIOS WITH FUTURE CLIMATIC CHANGE INFLUENCE ACCOUNTING
No full textThe methodology of construction of the alternative agricultural production scenarios at regional level includes profitability and feasibility analysis based on assessment the effect of global climate change on productivity parameters for the main agricultural crops, cost efficiency of crop growing and cattle breeding. To propose links between economic adaptation to climate change and carbon (organic C) stock management in agricultural ecosystems for use in developing long-term adoption strategies at regional level, the regional economic-mathematical model was elaborated. It allows us to unify soil C driving variables and human environment factors.Regional Economic-Mathematical Model, Regional Alternative Management Scenarios, Climate change, Linear Programming Task, Model of humus balance, European Russia, Crop Production/Industries, Environmental Economics and Policy, Livestock Production/Industries, Research Methods/ Statistical Methods,
5% lidocaine medicated plaster double effect in a case of orofacial localized neuropathic pain
No full textRoberto Casale,1,2 Yuriy Romanenko,2,3 Massimo Allegri4–6 1Department of Clinical Neurophysiology and Pain Rehabilitation Unit, Foundation "Salvatore Maugeri", Research and Care Institute, IRCCS, Pavia, Italy; 2EFIC Montescano Pain School, Montescano, Italy; 3Department of Neurology, Lugansk City Hospital 4, Lugansk, Ukraine; 4Department of Clinical, Surgical, Diagnostic and Pediatric Sciences University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy; 5Pain Therapy Service Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia, Italy; 6SIMPAR group, Pavia, Italy Abstract: Localized neuropathic pain (LNP) is a type of neuropathic pain that is characterized by “consistent and limited area(s) of maximum pain associated with negative or positive sensory signs and/or spontaneous symptoms characteristic of neuropathic pain”. This definition encompasses a huge number of neuropathic orofacial pain syndromes. We present a case report of a patient who was affected with sleep apnea syndrome treated with nocturnal oxygen mask delivery, in whom orofacial LNP hampered the wearing of a mask due to unbearable burning and throbbing pain. The application of 5% lidocaine medicated plaster during the night led to an impressive reduction of both the pain level and the size of the painful area due to the plaster's pharmacological mechanisms, which were associated with a secondary benefit due to its mechanical protective action. This case report shows how these two factors could be of clinical value and have to be considered more systematically in the treatment of LNP in reducing pain and the size of the painful area. Keywords: trigeminal pain, localized neuropathic pain, topical treatment, 5% lidocaine medicated plaste
Diffusion model identification for long-term coastal profile evolution
No full textAs it was found relatively recently, behavior-oriented diffusion models reasonably describes the time evolution of the cross-shore position of coastal profiles. Two time-independent coefficients in the governing equation, which embody the relevant physical properties, are identified simultaneously. Earlier, the authors have validated and calibrated numerically the proposed model, processing two sets of real data, the first measured over 10 years at Duck, in North Carolina (USA), the second obtained over 39 years measurements at Delfland (Holland). Here, the model dependence on the alongshore position of the observation point is studied. The coefficients of the model equation are determined by means of a certain iteration process. As it was observed, the achieved convergence is now better than when several separate observations along the coast are involved
Analysis of the content of the competitive stage in fitness aerobics and the identification of its features
No full textTraditional forms of physical, health–improving and sports–mass work with children, teenagers and students are significantly less attractive to the modern student because it does not meet their needs and the needs of the intensity, creativity and richness of the training process. As a result, there is a need of introducing new methods of physical education for attracting young people to physical culture and sports. Fitness–aerobics is a sport that is rapidly gaining popularity in connection with the implementation of its health, developmental and educational effect. The lack of structure of competition compositions traumatic and complicated elements ensures availability of training in this sport for people of different sex and age and level of physical fitness. Fitness–aerobics attracts a large number of young sportsmen with the opportunity to express themselves through choreography and creative stage imagery combined with true sports values of a healthy lifestyle, beauty, harmony, spiritual, moral and aesthetic development. Fitness–aerobics when of regularity, the optimal volume and intensity of training load contributes to the increase of the development level of motor–coordinating qualities: muscle strength, speed, endurance, accuracy, agility, flexibility, body stability etc. This article presents an analysis of the characteristics of fitness aerobics as a new perspective kind of sport, its differences from sports aerobics and some advantages. Research methods: analysis of scientific and methodical literature and generalization of pedagogical experience of practitioners in the field of fitness aerobics. The results of the analysis of scientific and methodical literature have shown the feasibility and effectiveness of fitness aerobics
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
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
Nitrogen doping and the performance of superconducting radio-frequency niobium cavities: insights from neutron diffraction and neutron Compton scattering
No full textNeutron Compton scattering and neutron diffraction have been applied to investigate the influence of nitrogen doping of niobium on the performance of superconducting radio-frequency niobium cavities. To this end, a comparative study of the neutronic response of two samples has been performed. An electro-polished and nitrogen-doped niobium sample was compared with a standard, a niobium sample that has only undergone the electro-polishing procedure. The first piece of information, provided by neutron diffraction, is that additional conditioning of the electro-polished cavity material, through doping with nitrogen, leads to a systematically larger niobium lattice expansion, which provides an upper conservative limit of nitrogen concentration consistent with values reported in the literature. Furthermore, neutron Compton scattering shows a broadening of the niobium momentum distribution in the nitrogen-doped sample, as compared to the standard, thus indicating an increased degree of ordering and binding of niobium in the metal lattice. On the whole, these observations suggest that nitrogen-doping leads to some degree of lattice ordering, most likely due to increased hydrogen trapping, in agreement with previous results using surface spectroscopy
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
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