Although skin changes in workers associated with the manufacture of various textiles, especially cotton, have been the subject of numerous communications (e.g., Southam, 1927; Brockbank, 1941) there are few references in the literature to dermatoses in jute workers. Henry (1947) refers to one case of scrotal carcinoma in a jute worker out of a total of 1,421 notifications to the Factory Inspect...

Effects of two types of timbering on populations of the Peaks of Otter salamander (Plethodon hubrichti) were determined using average numbers found during multiple night collections. Sampling was done prior to, and for two years after, timbering on four sites in each of three treatments (clearcut, shelterwood cuts, and reference). The average numbers of P. hubrichti at the reference and shelter...

Botrytis cinerea is one of the most common plant pathogenic fungi that affects a wide range of greenhouse horticultural products and decreases their market value. B. cinerea can strongly decrease yield and post-harvest quality through latent infections. It is a highly water dependent fungus and a certain leaf wetness duration seems necessary for spore germination. However, during germination be...

A growing number of computer systems,in the hope that such simulations w as we had thought. More recently, however, resources for such work can be obtained from untapped source: the generation of extremely large numbers of graduate students and their subsequent application to the creation of alternate “Simulating Complex Adaptive Systems -What can we really learn?” Dr. B. Rubble Bedrock Inst. B...

In addition to lowering blood lipid levels, statins (HMG CoA reductase inhibitors) inhibit platelet aggregation and maintain a favorable balance between prothrombotic and fibrinolytic mechanisms [1]. Perhaps these effects may account for the association of statins with a reduced risk of venous thrombosis [2,3]. Because different statins have different properties [4], the possibility that the ri...

the islamic calendar is based on lunar months, which begin when the thin crescent moon is actually sighted in the western sky after sunset within a day or so after the new moon. the islamic dates begin at sunset on the previous day. the visibility of the lunar crescent as a function of the moon's age - the time counted from the new moon - is obviously of great importance to muslims. the da...

We present OntoWiki, a tool providing support for agile, distributed knowledge engineering scenarios. OntoWiki facilitates the visual presentation of a knowledge base as an information map, with different views on instance data. It enables intuitive authoring of semantic content, with an inline editing mode for editing RDF content, similar to WYSIWYG for text documents. It fosters social collab...

A new tension beam was developed to measure the cross-machine directional tension profile of paper webs. The beam, composed of 50 individual Teflon pads resting on load cells, allows the measurement of the tension profile of a 1270 mm wide web. Tension profile measurements allow us to quantify the level of web bagginess with an accuracy of 5%. Tension analysis showed that the tension difference...

We propose a template library as a good representation of programming knowledge, and programming case studies as part of an effective context for illustrating design skills and strategies for utilizing this knowledge. In this project, we devised an on-line network of Pascal programming templates called a template library, and tested it with subjects (classified as novice, intermediate, and expe...