Little has changed in the way we report pathology results from blood sciences over the last 50 years other than moving to electronic display from paper. In part, this is aspiration to preserve the format of a paper report in electronic format. It is also due to the limitations of electronic media to display the data. The advancement of web-based technologies and functionality of hand-held devic...

In all types of debates regardless of topic research findings, investigations, evaluations and media reports regarding aid will find one prominent question, namely whether there is any clear connection between aid and economic growth in countries that have received high amounts of foreign aid. One argument has been that the connection between a high amount of foreign aid and economic growth is ...

“We cannot hope properly to understand the history of the period under review unless we give apartheid and racism their rightful place as the defining features of that period. (TRC Report, Chap.1, Vol.1, p.15) The quote is ironic because Fullard goes on to argue that the questions of race and racism were in fact strikingly absent from the interrogational framework of the TRC, in both its proces...

Since discovering the shrinking politician sound bite, researchers have shown that TV news grew more journalist-centered since the 1960s. To explore how far journalistic authority extends, this study turns to the weather. We examine local coverage weekday mornings on three local stations before a national convention. Close qualitative reading, supplemented by content coding, compares weather rh...

This research reports on Australian industry characteristics and trends of logistics activities performed through outsourced partners, based on survey research of Australian Shippers and Logistics Service Providers (LSPs). This paper reports on the main findings in terms of customer satisfaction with, and future scope and use of, logistics services provided. Both shippers and logistics service ...

Introduction. This study reports an investigation into the ways in which people engaged in a serious leisure activity can experience using information to learn (also known as information literacy). Method.Data were collected through twenty-two semistructured, one-on-one, phenomenographic interviews conducted with identified serious leisure participants operating within the area of heritage (as ...

A simple system for producing cumulative chemical pathology reports is described. Results of tests are transcribed onto the patient's laboratory record card and each time a new result is entered a copy is made by xerography and returned to the clinician as the laboratory report.A detailed account is given of the operation of the system and the design of the record card. The advantages of the sy...

This study investigated the degree to which audiovisual presentation (compared to auditory-only presentation) affected isolation point (IPs, the amount of time required for the correct identification of speech stimuli using a gating paradigm) in silence and noise conditions. The study expanded on the findings of Moradi et al. (under revision), using the same stimuli, but presented in an audiovi...