197,139 research outputs found
Research into the preparedness of Company XYZ for the implementation of the proposed OSHA ergonomic standard
No full textPlan BOSHA is proposing an ergonomic standard to help employers address ergonomic hazards in the workplace. Ergonomics is currently, covered under the general duty clause, which stipulates that employers must provide a safe workplace free from recognized hazards. The purpose of this study was to measure the preparedness of Company XYZ for the implementation of the new proposed standard. The significance of this study is that Musculoskeletal Disorders account for one third of the occupational injuries reported to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. OSHA estimated that ergonomic programs that were developed in house already protect over 50 percent of all employees and 28 percent of the work place in general industry. In this study, Company XYZ had some of the major components of the ergonomic program currently in place. A lot of the current policies were not recognized as potential ergonomical interventions to the operators and/or management. Company XYZ has several job functions that must be addressed before this standard can be fully implemented. These job functions will pose the greatest impact to the company as far as ergonomics is concerned. This company will need to educate the employees with the impact of ergonomics to the workforce in order to reach full compliance with the standard
Foreword: Constitutional Constraints State Health Care & Privacy Regulation after Sorrell v. IMS Health
No full textThis brief Foreword explains that First Amendment law is fertile ground for analysis under choice of law principles. It then opines that the majority and dissenting opinions in Sorrell v. IMS Health are rooted in different choices of law that would benefit from a more explicit acknowledgment and explanation
Supplemental_Table_1 - Clinical Outcome of Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy Diagnosed With or Without Coronary Angiography
No full textSupplemental_Table_1 for Clinical Outcome of Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy Diagnosed With or Without Coronary Angiography by Naoki Misumida, Gbolahan O. Ogunbayo, Sun Moon Kim, Ahmed Abdel-Latif, Khaled M. Ziada, and Vincent L. Sorrell in Angiology</p
Identification and characterization of VNI/VNII and novel VNII/VNIV hybrids and impact of hybridization on virulence and antifungal susceptibility within the C-neoformans/C-gattii species complex
No full textPreterm infants start milk feeds by gavage tube. As they mature, sucking feeds are gradually introduced. Women who choose to breast feed their preterm infant are not always able to be in hospital with their baby and need an alternative approach to feeding. Most commonly, milk (expressed breast milk or formula) is given by bottle. Whether using bottles during establishment of breast feeds is detrimental to breast feeding success is a topic Cryptococcus neoformans and C. gattii are pathogenic basidiomycetous yeasts and the commonest cause of fungal infection of the central nervous system. Cryptococci are typically haploid but several inter-species, inter-varietal and intra-varietal hybrids have been reported. It has a bipolar mating system with sexual reproduction occurring normally between two individuals with opposite mating types, α and a. This study set out to characterize hybrid isolates within the C. neoformans/C. gattii species complex: seven unisexual mating intra-varietal VNI/VNII (αAAα) and six novel inter-varietal VNII/VNIV (aADα). The URA5-RFLP pattern for VNII/VNIV (aADα) differs from the VNIII (αADa) hybrids. Analysis of the allelic patterns of selected genes for AD hybrids showed 79% or more heterozygosis for the studied loci except for CBS132 (VNIII), which showed 50% of heterozygosity. MALDI-TOF MS was applied to hybrids belonging to different sero/mating type allelic patterns. All hybrid isolates were identified as belonging to the same hybrid group with identification scores ranging between 2.101 to 2.634. All hybrids were virulent when tested in the Galleria mellonella (wax moth) model, except for VNII/VNIV (aADα) hybrids. VNI/VGII hybrids were the most virulent hybrids. Hybrids recovered from larvae manifested a significant increase in capsule and total cell size and produced a low proportion (5–10%) of giant cells compared with the haploid control strains. All strains expressed the major virulence factors—capsule, melanin and phospholipase B—and grew well at 37°C. The minimal inhibitory concentration of nine drugs was measured by micro-broth dilution and compared with published data on haploid strains. MICs were similar amongst hybrids and haploid parental strains. This is the first study reporting natural same sex αAAα intra-varietal VNI/VNII hybrids and aADα inter-varietal VNII/VNIV hybrids.Mojgan Aminnejad, Massimo Cogliati, Shuyao Duan, Michael Arabatzis, Kathrin Tintelnot, Elizabeth Castañeda, Marcia LazeÂra, Aristea Velegraki, David Ellis, Tania C. Sorrell, Wieland Meye
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
Modelling of <i>in situ</i> oxygen transport and aerobic metabolism in the hydrophyte <i>Eleocharis sphacelata</i> R. Br.
No full textEleocharis sphacelata (Cyperaceae) is a common emergent hydrophyte in wetlands throughout Australasia, and is notable as a particularly large member of its genus, able to grow in water up to 2 m deep (Sainty & Jacobs 1981). It is a perennial species, supporting live emergent shoots throughout the year, and grows only on flooded sediments. In Australia, the water temperature in E. sphacelata wetlands remains mild in winter (c. 6°C) but is high (25–30°C) during summer (Brix et al. 1992; Sorrell & Boon 1992). In this paper we present an analysis of the mechanisms of internal ventilation in this species and their ability to aerate the submerged tissue.</jats:p
"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
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