to quality and caring are not enough to transform an NHS waiting room into the lounge for Concorde. Yet the place is warm on a cold February day, the floors clean, the staff polite, the consultants willing to fit their days round patients. The place is West Suffolk district general hospital, the main acute unit for West Suffolk Health Authority, and the time barely a month away from the biggest...

Since its establishment in 1903, the National Wildlife Refuge System (NWRS) has grown to 635 units and 37 Wetland Management Districts in the United States and its territories. These units provide the seasonal habitats necessary for migratory waterfowl and other species to complete their annual life cycles. Habitat conversion and fragmentation, invasive species, pollution, and competition for w...

This study aimed to examine the utility of inertial measurement unit (IMU) technology identify angle, step-specific, and side-specific differences between youth soccer players with without a history lower limb injury during soccer-specific field tests. Thirty-two youths (mean age 16.4 years) who were elite (Females n = 13, Males 19) wore IMUs pre- postseason change-of-direction assessments. A r...

Analytical methods from signal detection theory were applied in an effort to quantify the ability of cochlear nucleus (CN) units to signal changes in intensity. Of particular interest was the relation between this ability and the different patterns of discharge that characterize auditory neurons. Single-unit responses to best-frequency (BF) tone bursts were recorded from neurons in the gerbil c...

Abstract Standard life cycle techniques such as warranty cost (LCWC) analysis and (LCA) are used to respectively quantify the relative economical environmental advantages of remanufactured goods while simultaneously identifying avenues for improvement. In this paper, we contribute literature on studies by incorporating reliability into LCWC LCA with goal improving long-term/multiple decision ma...

due to the deployment of military units in different provinces and different lands and areas in iran and doing many different missions, the amount of fuel consumption of vehicles is not only identical but also different. since the precise measurement of fuel consumption and estimating its needs are important, the factors affecting fuel consumption, military units, including temperature, humidit...