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Ahiman rezon, [electronic resource] : or a help to all that are, (or would be) free and accepted masons, ... the second edition by Lau. Dermott, ...
No full textThe titlepage is engraved.Electronic reproduction.English Short Title Catalog,Reproduction of original from John Rylands University Library of Manchester
BRACING AND NON-SURGICAL MANAGEMENT OF SCOLIOSIS IN CANADA: EARLY DETECTION, ACCESS INEQUITIES, AND THE NEED FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY REFORM
No full textBracing remains the cornerstone of non-surgical management for adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) with an aim to minimize the risk of progression and to avoid spine surgery. In Canada however, one third to half of patients present with curve magnitudes too severe for optimal brace treatment, resulting in higher than necessary surgical volumes. High-cost spine surgeries are fully funded while non-surgical management is not. This Professional Opinion article highlights systemic barriers to early detection that limit opportunity for non-surgical management in Canada and ultimately drive up healthcare spending. In Canada, there is an urgent need for a coordinated national strategy to re-establish routine scoliosis screening, ensure equitable public funding for treatment and expand professional training in non-surgical spinal care.
Article PDF Link: https://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/cpoj/article/view/46590/34720
How To Cite: Lebel A, Kline M, Boucher J, Carberry J, Adulovic N, Dermott JA. Bracing and non-surgical management of scoliosis in Canada: Early detection, access inequities, and the need for interdisciplinary reform. Canadian Prosthetics & Orthotics Journal. 2025; Volume 8, Issue 2, No. 9. https://doi.org/10.33137/cpoj.v8i2.46590
Corresponding Author: Andrea Lebel, MSc, PT Affiliation: Scoliosis Physiotherapy & Posture Centre, Ottawa, ON, Canada. E-Mail: [email protected] ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-9488-429
Unstable Building: Virtual Environments and Real Relevance
No full textDesign is often romanticised as a solitary pursuit and the pedagogical framework within educational environments often cements this perception with the demand for individual student assessment. In popular journals the architect as artist is celebrated for singular vision and the tenacity to realise that vision. However, in practice as designs evolve into construction the process becomes decidedly collaborative, with engineers, interior designers and contractors contributing unique parts as the design evolves to accommodate revision and change. This paper will bring evidence to bear that suggests the value in using Virtual Environments (VE’s) is in their potential to facilitate collaboration, and not just in the popularised phenomenon of 3D or 4D model creation. We use design theorist Brian Lawson’s design problem/solution mapping of analysis, appraisal and synthesis as a framework to scrutinize design and construction in the VE Second Life. Within this framework we draw on philosophical reflects by Ludwig Wittgenstein and appropriate cultural theory from Richard Sennett, Mary Douglas and Lewis Hyde. Which provides a theoretical underpinning to our observational evidence that suggests VE’s contribute to Lawson’s constituents of analysis and appraisal as well as 3D synthesis. Striations, breakdown and friction are brought to centre stage during collaboration in this virtual environment; we argue these facets to collaboration have value for emergent designers as important source of opportunity and innovation. Observations challenge attempts by popular collaborative software to expunge these clashes and conflicts from the design and construction process. VE’s bring breakdown and conflict into focus, sensitising emergent practitioners to it’s inherent potential for both problematic conflict and creative opportunity. Findings suggest that VE’s have considerable influence not only for verisimilitude but for simulating the fluid or ‘unstable’ design and construction process and promoting the development of skills that Lawson contents are fundamental to the designer and which cultural theorist Richard Sennett posits are critical to the notion of craft
Five years of Ulysses dust data: 2000-2004
No full textKrueger H, Altobelli N, Anweiler B, et al. Five years of Ulysses dust data: 2000-2004. Planetary and Space Science. 2006;54(9-10):932-956.The Ulysses spacecraft has been orbiting the Sun on a highly inclined ellipse (i = 79 degrees, perihelion distance 1.3 AU, aphelion distance 5.4 AU) since it encountered Jupiter in 1992. Between January 2000 and December 2004, the spacecraft completed almost an entire revolution about the Sun, passing through perihelion in May 2001 and aphelion in July 2004. In this five-year period the dust detector on board recorded 4415 dust impacts. We publish and analyse the complete data set of both raw and reduced data for particles with masses 10(-16) g <= M <= 10(-7) g. Together with. 1695 dust impacts recorded between launch of Ulysses and the end of 1999 published earlier (Grain, E., Baguhl, M., Divine, N., Fechtig, H., Hamilton, D.P, Harmer, M.S., Kissel, J., Lindblad, B.A., Linkert, D., Linkert, G., Mann, L, McDonnell, J.A.M., Morfill, G.E., Polanskey, C., Riemann, R., Schwehm, G.H., Siddique, N., Staubach, P., Zook, H.A., 1995a. Two years of Ulysses dust data. Planetary Space Sci. 43, 971-999, Paper III; Kruger, H., Grun, E., Landgraf, M., Baguhl, M., Dermott, S.F., Fechtig, H., Gustafson, B.A., Hamilton, D.P., Harmer, M.S., Horanyi, M., Kissel, J., Lindblad, B., Linkert, D., Linkert, G., Mann, L, McDonnell, J.A.M., Morfill, G.E., Polanskey, C., Schwehm, G.H., Srama, R., Zook, H.A., 1995. Three years of Ulysses dust data: 1993 to 1995. Planetary and Space Sci. 47, 363-383, Paper V; Kruger, H., Grun, E., Landgraf, M., Dermott, S.F., Fechtig, H., Gustafson, B.A., Hamilton, D.P., Harmer, M.S., Horanyi, M., Kissel, J., Lindblad, B., Linkert, D., Linkert, G., Mann, I., McDonnell, J.A.M., Morfill, G.E., Polanskey, C., Schwehm, G.H., Srama, R., Zook, H.A., 2001b. Four years of Ulysses dust data: 1996 to 1999. Planetary Space Sci. 49, 1303-1324, Paper VII), a data set of 6110 dust impacts detected with the Ulysses sensor between October 1990 and December 2004 is now available. The impact rate measured between 2000 and 2002 was relatively constant with about 0.3 impacts per day showing a maximum at 1.5 per day around ecliptic plane crossing in early-2001. The impact direction of the majority of impacts between 2000 and 2002 is compatible with particles of interstellar origin, the rest are most likely interplanetary particles. In 2003 and 2004 dust stream particles originating from the jovian system dominated the overall impact rate. Twenty-two individual dust streams were measured between November 2002 and December 2004. The observed impact rates are compared with models for interplanetary and interstellar dust. The dust measurements from the entire mission since Ulysses launch give good agreement with the interplanetary flux model of Staubach, P., Grun, E., Jehn, R., 1997. The meteoroid environment near Earth, Adv. Space Res. 19, 301-308. (c) 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved
Carnival and Construction – Towards a Scaffolding for the Inclusion of ICT in the Construction Process
No full textAn open access copy of this article is available and complies with the copyright holder/publisher conditions.In this paper we explore the process of construction, we consider the construc-
tion site as a mediated collaborative environment in which many specialist crafts
and esoteric skills are present and negotiated. Concrete information when pass
onto a construction site becomes part of a fluid morphing object, the validity and
meaning of information can change—or be lost—depending on where and when
it is. We look at current models of construction and actual construction process
and we explore the notion of Carnival as a tool to reconcile the concrete and fluid
aspects to communication dynamics of mediated group working in general and of
construction site practice specifically.AM - Author Manuscrip
Impact of ICRF fast-ions on core turbulence and MHD activity in ASDEX upgrade
No full textFunding Information: This work has been carried out within the framework of the EUROfusion Consortium, funded by the European Union via the Euratom Research and Training Programme (Grant Agreement No 101052200 — EUROfusion). Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Commission. Neither the European Union nor the European Commission can be held responsible for them. Funding Information: We wish to acknowledge M. Bergmann, M. Brambilla, P. David, R. Mc Dermott, Ph. Lauber, U. Plank, M. Reisner, S. Sharapov, G. Staebler, G. Tardini, E. Viezzer, B. Zimmermann, and to thank A. Kappatou, E. Tsitrone and A. Hakola for their kind support. J. Galdon-Quiroga acknowledges funding from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation under grant no. FJC2019-041092-I. See the author list of U. Stroth et al. 2022 Nucl. Fusion 62 042006 for the ASDEX Upgrade Team; see the author list of B. Labit et al. 2019 Nucl. Fusion 59 086020 for the EUROfusion MST1 team. Publisher Copyright: © 2023 Author(s).Experiments in various tokamaks and their analysis identify the fast ions (FI) generated by NBI and/or ICRF heating as one of the main causes of the observed improvement in core confinement: fast ions can reduce core microturbulence (mainly Ion-Temperature-Gradient (ITG) driven modes) either electrostatically or electromagnetically, or they can resonate with fishbones and high-frequency Alfvén modes, which in turn contribute in stabilizing ITG. In this perspective, we discuss recent experiments done on ASDEX Upgrade (AUG) where ICRF is the main actuator for FI generation for energies above 100 keV. Additionally, ICRF-FIs can substantially impact the MHD activity and its consequent effects on fast ion losses (FILs) and ion-cyclotron emission (ICE). We present dedicated AUG experiments with NBI-D further accelerated by ICRF.Peer reviewe
La conquista "imaginada" : percepción ambiental e interacciones culturales en la conquista centroamericana. El caso de Fernández de Oviedo y el entorno natural centroamericano. 1529-1548
No full textEl autor analiza la percepción ambiental de las descripciones de Fernández de Oviedo. Incide en el grado de objetividad-realidad/subjetividad-idealización de la naturaleza centroamericana centrandose para ello en aspectos como la "hispanización"del entorno o el "eurocentrismo" de la interpretación.L'autor analitza la percepció ambiental de las descripciones de Fernández de Oviedo. Incideix en el grau d'objectivitat-realitat/subjectivitat-idealització de la natura centreamericana centrant-se en aspectes com la "hispanització" de l'entorn o l'"eurocentrisme" de la interpretació.The author focus on the environmental thought in Fernández de Oviedo. Analises the objectivity-reality/subjectivity-idealisation in the book and focus on the spanish and european view influency
La conquista "imaginada" : percepción ambiental e interacciones culturales en la conquista centroamericana. El caso de Fernández de Oviedo y el entorno natural centroamericano. 1529-1548
No full textEl autor analiza la percepción ambiental de las descripciones de Fernández de Oviedo. Incide en el grado de objetividad-realidad/subjetividad-idealización de la naturaleza centroamericana centrandose para ello en aspectos como la "hispanización"del entorno o el "eurocentrismo" de la interpretación.L'autor analitza la percepció ambiental de las descripciones de Fernández de Oviedo. Incideix en el grau d'objectivitat-realitat/subjectivitat-idealització de la natura centreamericana centrant-se en aspectes com la "hispanització" de l'entorn o l'"eurocentrisme" de la interpretació.The author focus on the environmental thought in Fernández de Oviedo. Analises the objectivity-reality/subjectivity-idealisation in the book and focus on the spanish and european view influency
An independent determination of Fomalhaut b's orbit and the dynamical effects on the outer dust belt
No full textThe nearby star Fomalhaut harbours a cold, moderately eccentric dust belt with a sharp inner edge near 133 au. A low-mass, common proper motion companion (Fom b), was discovered near the inner edge and was identified as a planet candidate that could account for the belt morphology. However, the most recent orbit determination based on four epochs of astrometry over eight years reveals a highly eccentric orbit that appears to cross the belt in the sky plane projection. We perform here a full orbital determination based on the available astrometric data to independently validate the orbit estimates previously presented. Adopting our values for the orbital elements and their associated uncertainties, we then study the dynamical interaction between the planet and the dust ring, to check whether the proposed disk sculpting scenario by Fom b is plausible. We used a dedicated MCMC code to derive the statistical distributions of the orbital elements of Fom b. Then we used symplectic N-body integration to investigate the dynamics of the dust belt, as perturbed by a single planet. Different attempts were made assuming different masses for Fom b. We also performed a semi-analytical study to explain our results. Our results are in good agreement with others regarding the orbit of Fom b. We find that the orbit is highly eccentric, is close to apsidally aligned with the belt, and has a moderate mutual inclination relative to the belt plane of. If coplanar, this orbit crosses the disk. Our dynamical study then reveals that the observed planet could sculpt a transient belt configuration with a similar eccentricity to what is observed, but it would not be simultaneously apsidally aligned with the planet. This transient configuration only occurs a short time after the planet is placed on such an orbit (assuming an initially circular disk), a time that is inversely proportional to the planet's mass, and that is in any case much less than the 440 Myr age of the star. We constrain how long the observed dust belt could have survived with Fom b on its current orbit, as a function of its possible mass. This analysis leads us to conclude that Fom b is likely to have low mass, that it is unlikely to be responsible for the sculpting of the belt, and that it supports the hypothesis of a more massive, less eccentric planet companion Fom c
