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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
Synthesis of Silylaniline Precursors to Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Polymers
No full textA broad spectrum of derivative chemistry has originated from the study of boron compounds containing silicon-nitrogen functional groups. Small molecules that contain various silicon-nitrogen moieties are synthetically useful due to the reactivity of the Si-N bond. Some of our current research is focused on the development of a variety of 4- substituted aniline derivatives containing one or more silicon-nitrogen bonds. These molecules hold potential as precursors to novel organic-inorganic hybrid polymeric systems involving alternating borazine (-BR-NR'-) and phenylene (-C6H4-) moieties. The work presented here involves the synthesis, purification, and characterization of a small library of silylaniline derivatives
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
Biblioteca para Niños
No full textThe first surprise in this book is that its front cover shows an Approbación Ecclesiástica! A second surprise is the lovely array of illustrations: several engaging full-color full-page illustrations, some black-and-white illustrations, and delightful smaller designs. As I opened the book to study it more carefully, I thought There are no fables here! It is true that fairy-tale stories seem to dominate, but there are many fables retold here. They include The Eagle, the Cat, and the Javelin; UP; The Wolf and the Sheep; The Fox and the Goat (with three good illustrations); The Fox and the Lion; BC; The Stag and the Oxen; The Ass and the Wolf; The Wolf and the Stork; The Eagle and the Crow (a drama in three acts with three good illustrations); DLS (again with three good illustrations); The Fox and the Cat (also with three); and The Rabbits and the Frogs. The closing T of C is the inside back-cover.This is a hardbound book (hard cover)Language note: SpanishTexto de S.H. Hame
Alternative Approaches to Comparative nth-Degree Risk Aversion
No full textMacroeconomicsEconomists have used the risk premium and the probability premium that are revealed through individual choices to compare how risk averse two individuals are. These behavioral, or choice-based, measures of risk aversion �������� such as the risk premium and the probability premium �������� are important because they can be used in experimental investigations into individual characteristics like gender, age, or income that affect the strength of risk aversion. Higher- degree risk aversion (e.g. downside risk aversion or prudence) has recently been shown to play critical roles in decision making under uncertainty. Consequently, it is important to study how to measure the strength of higher-degree risk aversion. In working paper 1805, Alternative Approaches to Comparative nth-Degree Risk Aversion, PERC researcher Liqun Liu and co-author William S. Neilson generalize the three main existing behavioral approaches to measuring risk aversion �������� including the probability premium approach, the risk premium approach, and the comparative statistics approach �������� to measuring higher-degree risk aversion. Findings show that, within the expected utility framework, behavior patterns in these behavioral approaches to measuring higher-degree risk aversion are equivalent and can be characterized by the same set of conditions on the utility functions
Anson VCF Dot Airplane - 02
No full textPhotograph - Three men and supplies beside the Anson VCF Dot plane belonging to Joe Irwin, at Namur Lake, Alberta. Left to right: Jack Neilson, Helgi Eskielson and Joe Irwi
From Agents to Stewards? Experiences from a Dutch Infrastructure Case Study
No full textIn the construction industry clients largely depend on contractors to deliver projects. According to agency theory problems of goal conflict and information asymmetry arise in this delegation of work because both the principal and the agent are self- interested. The control-oriented governance mechanisms that agency theorists propose as a means to resolve these problems can act counterproductive and give rise to new problems. Stewardship theory offers a counterweight to agency theory and assumes a relational reciprocity between the principal and the steward. Recently, a large group of Dutch public construction clients and contractors have collaboratively expressed their desire to improve their relationship in a manifest called ‘the market vision’. This phenomenon can be interpreted as a desire to shift from a principal- agent towards a principal-steward relationship. The aim of this paper is to explore how public clients engage in stewardship relationships with contractors. This research is based on a case study of one of the most ambitious projects under the umbrella of this market vision trajectory. The analysis of the documents, observation notes and semi-structured interviews with project team members indicate that they developed a relationship which can be characterised as a principal-steward bond. By investing in relationship-building from the pre-commercial phase, throughout the tender phase and the execution phase, they put their individual differences beside in order to reach their initially defined common goal. It remains however to be seen whether this can be considered as a complete stewardship relation.Public Commissionin
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