Group Of Examples Research Articles

P157 The Language of Cough: A Focus Group Study in Respiratory Diseases

BackgroundLittle is known about the sensations and triggers that provoke cough in patients, or their preferred language to describe their experiences. We have previously collected a list of descriptors covering...

PRE-INJURY AND INJURY-RELATED PREDICTORS OF DISABILITY 3 AND 12 MONTHS AFTER INJURY: HOSPITALISED AND NON-HOSPITALISED

BackgroundMost studies of injury outcome are restricted to hospitalised people. Little is known about outcomes for those not hospitalised, and few studies have used validated measures of disability.AimsWe identify factors...

OC-099 Increased at risk screening and recognition of atypical presentation does not fully explain the 6.5-fold increase in paediatric coeliac disease (CD) incidence in the last 20 years in SE Scotland

IntroductionCurrent diagnostic practice for paediatric CD in the UK includes increased screening of family members and at- risk groups for example, diabetes mellitus.AimsTo identify all incident cases of CD in...

Experiencing the Impact of Organizational Structure on Planning and Visioning Tasks

The various ways natural resource agencies and programs are structured and how that impacts leadership style and products is an important concept for students to understand. Leadership style and organizational structure determine visions, missions, goals and objectives that set the tone for organizations. This exercise demonstrates organizational structure and the impact of leadership style by having students work collaboratively to write a mission statement, goals and objectives within the confines of assigned structures. The class was divided into organizations with different structures by using role cards. The groups had contrasting experiences resulting in dissimilar products. The partnership group for example, was very collaborative and had a comprehensive, well-planned product as a result of shared input. The students deemed the activity as an engaging, helpful and fun way to experience and learn about the implications of organizational structure; while writing the mission, goals and objectives helped students learn the concepts.

Diffusion studies with radioactive ions

An overview of themodified radiotracer based diffusion studies carried out at IGISOL is provided. The experimental procedures are briefly described followed by examples involving IGISOL as the key facility. In this respect the studies related to silicon-germanium (Si1-xGex) alloys and on the related diffusion systematics are summarized. Another group of examples is related to mobility determination of lead isotopes in glass for verifying retrospective radon measurements. Finally an outlook to future possibilities related to employing radiotracers in solid state research is provided.

Coherent Network Optimizing of Rail‐Based Urban Mass Transit

An efficient public transport is more than ever a crucial factor when it comes to the quality of life and competitiveness of many cities and regions in Asia. In recent years, the rail‐based urban mass transit has been regarded as one of the key means to overcoming the great challenges in Chinese megacities. The purpose of this study is going to develop a coherent network optimizing for rail‐based urban mass transit to find the best alternatives for the user and to demonstrate how to meet sustainable development needs and to match the enormous capacity requirements simultaneously. This paper presents an introduction to the current situation of the important lines, and transfer points in the metro system Shanghai. The insufficient aspects are analyzed and evaluated; while the optimizing ideas and measurements are developed and concreted. A group of examples are used to illustrate the approach. The whole study could be used for the latest reference for other megacities which have to be confronted with the similar situations and processes with enormous dynamic travel and transport demands.

Interpretation and Translation of Lithuanian Cultural Textual Implications

This article deals with cultural meanings of Lithuanian literature and the interpretation and peculiarities of translation to the French language. The analysis of the research material, consisting of original texts and their translations to the French language published in 2000-2010, allows noticing the predominant tendencies of interpretation and transfer of cultural implications as well as problems of translation. The outcomes of the research confirm that Lithuanian cultural implication in French translations is usually conveyed explicitly applying the strategy of external textual adaptation. These examples make up a half of all the examples of the research material. The choice of explicit translation method shows attempts by translators to introduce unfamiliar Lithuanian culture, for instance, peculiarities of the life mode and customs, folklore and mythology, etc., to French readers. The examples of implication in culture transferring, adaptation and conversion were found. The research of the second largest group of examples which belongs to the adaptation enables to draw the conclusion that this cultural transposition is chosen properly in French translations. It refers to the application of cultural meanings in the target culture and does not cause the risk of ethnocentrism. From the viewpoint of translation, more problematic are the examples of transfer of cultural implication and conversion. The analysis of the latter issues gives rise to the doubts about the expedience of cultural and stylistic use of certain conversion cases, as well as creates a problem of readers’ abilities to understand Lithuanian cultural implications expressed in Russian language in French translation.http://dx.doi.org/10.5755/j01.sal.0.19.944

An Impact Analysis of Turbine Guide Bearing Stiffness on Rotating Parts’ Transverse Vibration Characteristics

A vibration calculation model for a large-scale hydraulic turbine group is built to act on the unbalanced force between the rotor and the runner. Take the Francis turbine group for example. Using the finite element method, the units lateral vibration characteristics of rotating components were calculated and analyzed. The paper discusses the impact of location and the guide bearing stiffness on the lateral vibration characteristics of the unit. Based on the elastic supporting models, the paper also compares the results of the guide bearing stiffness modified simultaneously and respectively. Results show that the guide bearing stiffness has a significant impact on the lateral vibration characteristics of the location of the unit, which provides a reference for the reduction of vibration and the optimization of the supporting structure of the turbine unit.

SP6-45 Screening for genital chlamydia for young people in community pharmacies: a meta-analysis of chlamydia prevalence

BackgroundWith traditional specialist sexual-health services overstretched, community pharmacies have been deployed to provide chlamydia testing. We have undertaken a systematic-review to estimate prevalence of chlamydia infection among those screened for...

Translating oral literature: Aboriginal song texts

This essay discusses what is involved in making oral literature in Australian languages, especially songs, accessible to speakers of English. It offers a variety of linguistic, technical and above all historical and cultural reasons why so little has been attempted, and why so few of the attempts have been successful. One group of examples of oral literature given, were contributed by the last generation of the Wangaaybuwan people who can still speak their language, Ngiyambaa.

Galicia Dixital. Una exposición de patrimonio e-tangible. El Museo Vacío.

<p>Galicia Dixital is an exhibition located in Santiago de Compostela whith the mission to show the culture and heritage of this region through the use of new audiovisual technologies, whilst to demonstrate the use and applications of avant-garde technology. This paper describes some of the installations present there with special emphasis in The Empty Museum, a fully immersive virtual reality installation where the user can walk physically visiting virtual worlds. A group of examples of contents designed for this medium will be also described.</p>

Quantum mechanical scoring for protein docking

We develop a docking protocol based on quantum mechanical/molecular mechanical calculations in which quantum mechanical energy is used as scoring. We test the protocol with three groups of examples with various binding site characteristics. The new docking method performs as well as or better than conventional docking methods in all three groups. In particular, for proteins with primarily hydrophobic binding sites, structural motifs with possible pi-pi interactions are often found and it is shown that these can be better modeled with quantum mechanical scoring docking than force field based methods. It seems that the new method performs in such cases to a great accuracy.

“Modernization” of the Chemistry Education Process: Do People Still Perform Real Experiments?

During the last two decades, numerous attempts have been made to “modernize” science education, chemistry education in particular. Microscale experiments, such as projected experiments, have become favorites of many educators and instructors. Although these experiments might be useful for hands-on approach or for quick demonstrations in large lecture rooms, educators often overlook the shortcomings. Those whose wish is to “modernize” chemistry/ science education often use modern equipment that does not explain the science phenomena as well as the traditional experiment. Therefore, these microscale experiments sometimes distort the information gathered—information that is easily obtained by the macroscopic—or traditional—approach. The question arises: do we, occasionally, modernize just to be modern? This paper discusses two groups of examples: (1) those where the modern (in this case the microscale) approach is a step in the right direction and (2) examples where “modernization” appears to be a step backwards, like insisting on microscale experiments where they completely fail, or using projectors and movies instead of performing experiments in vivo.

Stringency in Qumran: A Reassessment

AbstractThe attribution of stringency to the Qumranites is prevalent in scholarly research. Indeed it is indisputable that the Sect generally adopts stringent positions, compared to rabbinic halakah. However, closer examination indicates that Qumranic law reflects simple, necessary inferences from Scripture itself, whereas the Tannaitic leniency represents a surprisingly revolutionary divergence from the plain meaning of Scripture. The paper surveys several cases in which the bold and exceptional nature of Tannaitic legislation cannot serve as a criterion for evaluating the stringency of Sectarian law. It goes on to review other instances, where the very same traditions formed the basis of Qumranic as well as rabbinic regulation, except that the latter restricted their scope. The third group of examples shows that it was precisely the unrefined, simple character of Qumranic law, in comparison with the conceptual sophistication of Tannaitic halakah, that occasionally led to the opposite result, in which the Tannaitic halakah was strict, and the Sectarian law lenient. In sum, the strictness of Qumranic law is not “objective” but relative. The understanding that sectarian law reflects a series of inductions not altogether removed from the simple sense of Scripture facilitates a more accurate appreciation of the depth of Tannaitic halakah's groundbreaking leniency.

Learning Visual Basic Reactively

Computer is considered to be one of the consequences of the recent scientific and technological progress. Meanwhile, it is also considered as one of the supports that lead this progress. This makes it of great interest by the educators and the staff who worried about the educational process. The educational systems have taken care of the computer recalling using it either in the school administrations or in teaching. In this research, a system has been constructed to teach the visual basic using the enumerating teaching method by only listening of the user to the subject, and the reactive teaching with the user who leads the listener to the manner of constructing a program by himself step by step following the simple used method that supported by voice and photos, whereas the system consists of three levels (the first one is specific for beginners; the second is for medium level; and the third is for the level of advanced programmers). In each level there is a group of examples that used the reactive method in their presentations. Visual basic was chosen because it is a strong programming language preferred for designing the fronts and of its deal with the data bases. Moreover, it contains the characteristics of the Object Oriented Programming (OOP). The system was applied on a sample of 20 students from the Department of Computer Sciences. The results are positive according to the questionnaire used after the application of the system. .

If we build it will they come? Investigating the relationship

Research from a survey of students in higher education institutions in the Western Cape has demonstrated that despite the difficulties being experienced in terms of access to Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in higher education, students report that they do indeed use computers for their learning. In this paper we explore the relationship between access and use examining particularly the influence of context on use. We focus on those specific aspects of access where previous studies have highlighted a link between access and use, namely; home computer access, individuals' interest in and aptitude with using computers, and support within social networks. Although the research findings do reveal quite obviously that students with poor access do make less use of ICTs for learning, this forms only part of the picture. High access does not guarantee high use: differentiation in use is noted amongst students from different socio-economic groups for example. There are also students with low access who exercise their agency in constraining conditions, and make frequent use of ICTs for learning, particularly in the business and engineering disciplines. The findings reported in this paper suggest that the notion of the digital divide is simplistic and less useful than previously thought; rather indications are that amongst higher education students there is a usage divide, and digital differentiation is a more useful framing concept. South African Journal of Higher Education Vol. 21 (6) 2008: pp. 730-745

Resultative Predicates in Japanese

Washio (1997; 1999) observes that resultative predicates are divided into two different groups, strong and weak resultatives, depending on ‘patienthood’ of the object. This typology of resultatives seems to capture a point of crosslinguistic variation in resultatives; Japanese has weak but not strong resultatives, while English has both. Washio also observes that there is another group of examples that bears a superficial resemblance to resultatives but constitutes a different phenomenon, hence spurious resultatives. The difference between weak and strong resultatives is made in terms of the ‘affectedness’ of the verb. Thus the typology of resultatives proposed by Washio is semantically grounded. In this paper, I propose: (i) a fine-grained distinction for Washio’s weak resultatives: (ii) a syntactic analysis of the different resultative types. On the basis of syntactic evidence, I argue that there are two types of weak resultatives, an adjunct of VP and a complement of VP within the vP projection. I also argue that spurious resultatives are structurally higher than weak resultatives in Japanese.

Anti-synchronization on autonomous and non-autonomous chaotic systems via adaptive feedback control

In this paper, the anti-synchronization of a general class of chaotic systems is investigated. A simple adaptive feedback scheme is proposed to anti-synchronize many familiar chaotic systems, including autonomous systems and non-autonomous systems. Lyapunov analysis for the error system gives the asymptotic stability conditions based on the invariance principle of differential equations. The schemes are successfully applied to three groups of examples: the van der Pol–Duffing oscillator, the parametrically harmonically excited 4D system, and the additionally harmonically excited Murali–Lakshmanan–Chua circuit. Numerical results are presented to justify the theoretical analysis in this paper.

Adaptive generalized projective synchronization in different chaotic systems based on parameter identification

In this Letter, the generalized projective synchronization of different chaotic systems with unknown parameters is investigated. By Lyapunov stability theory, the adaptive control method is proposed to achieve above synchronization phenomenon. Meanwhile, according to the invariance principle of differential equations, unknown parameter can be estimated accurately. The schemes are successfully applied to two groups of examples: the anti-phase synchronization between Lorenz system and Chen system; the complete synchronization between hyper-chaotic system and generalized Loren system. The corresponding numerical results are presented to verify the effectiveness of this method.

Predictors of asthma control in children from different ethnic origins living in Amsterdam

To identify factors associated with asthma control in a multi-ethnic paediatric population. We interviewed 278 children with paediatrician diagnosed asthma (aged 7-17 years) and one of their parents. Asthma control was assessed with the Asthma Control Questionnaire (ACQ). Detailed information about sociodemographic variables, asthma medication, knowledge of asthma, inhalation technique and environmental factors were collected. Turkish and Moroccan parents were interviewed in their language of choice. Logistic regression analyses were used to identify correlates of asthma control. Of the 278 children, 85 (30.6%) were Dutch, 84 (30.2%) were Moroccan, 58 (20.9%) were Turkish and 51 (18.3%) were Surinamese. Overall, almost 60% had a status of well-controlled asthma, as indicated by the ACQ. Only 51 of the 142 (35.9%) Moroccan and Turkish parents had a good comprehension of the Dutch language. In logistic regression analyses the risk of having uncontrolled asthma was significantly higher among Surinamese children (OR 2.3; 95% CI 1.06-4.83), respondents with insufficient comprehension of the Dutch language (OR 2.3; 95% CI 1.08-4.78), children using woollen blankets (OR 9.8; 95% CI 1.52-63.42), and significantly lower among male (OR 0.5; 95% CI 0.31-0.91) and non-daily users of inhaled corticosteroids (OR 0.6; 95% CI 0.38-1.07). In conclusion, ethnicity as well as insufficient comprehension of the Dutch language appeared to be independent risk factors for uncontrolled asthma. Special attention should be given to children from immigrants groups for example by calling in an interpreter by physicians when comprehension is insufficient.