June Focus

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According to Dr Ebrahim, some 6 percent of all crashes in the United States can be attributed to a lack of sleep. Some 20 percent of accidents in the United Kingdom are attributed to fatigue and one third of accidents in Australia are attributed to sleep-related ailments. A 1996 French study found that more than two thirds of road accidents were caused by two factors: excessive speed and driver...

SLAC – PUB – 9255 June 2002 Tuning Knobs for the NLC Final Focus 1

Compensation of optics errors at the Interaction Point (IP) is essential for maintaining maximum luminosity at the NLC. Several correction systems (knobs) using the Final Focus sextupoles have been designed to provide orthogonal compensation of linear and the second order optics aberrations at IP. Tuning effects of these knobs on the 250 GeV beam were verified using tracking simulations. Presen...

Quenchable Neuroscience: Why JUNE Needs to Focus on Getting Indexed in PubMed

I am writing in response to William Grisham’s recent editorial in the Journal of Undergraduate Neuroscience Education (JUNE) entitled ‘Unquenchable Neuroscience’ (Fall 2011, 10(1):E1-E1). In his piece, Grisham discusses challenges on the horizon, but fails to identify what I think is the biggest challenge facing JUNE and the journal’s readers: JUNE’s continuing absence on the search engine PubM...

Development Focus: Education and Health Care in the Caribbean - Finance & Development - June 1997 - Vinaya Swaroop

The Caribbean countries have achieved impressive levels of public spending on education and health care. But in many countries, the qualitative results have not been encouraging. OVERNMENTS have long recognized the importance of primary and secondary education and preventive health care in improving the welfare of the poor. Not only do improvements in education and health directly affect the we...

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