Darrin, age 4, and Corrinne, age 3, attend a child care center while their mother, Shawna, age 22, works at a dry cleaning business. One afternoon the teacher in the center noticed bruises on Darrin’s buttocks. She reported this to the center’s social worker, Lisa. Lisa contacted the hotline of the Missouri Division of Family Services (DFS), the CPS agency. This call was the fifth report to DFS...

Other local treatments were stopped before the maggots were applied. Systemic antibiotic treatment was stopped as well (except in cases of infection of the navicular bursa.) Between 300 and 900 maggots were used for each wound, depending on its size. They were left in place for three days. In 5 cases the response to the initial MDT was inadequate and so a second treatment was applied for a furt...

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10 The dry and wet deposition of radionuclides released into the atmosphere can be 11 intercepted by vegetation in terrestrial ecosystems. The aim of this study was to quantify the 12 interception of wet deposited Cs and Sr by spring oilseed rape (Brassíca napus L.) and 13 spring wheat (Tríticum aestívum L.). The dependency of the intercepted fraction (f) on total 14 above ground plant biomass,...

This paper studies the solution behavior of a system of two coupled elastic beams connected vertically by springs. With the viscous damping collocated with the ends of the springs, the system energy decays exponentially. Our goal is to find the optimal spring-damper location which yields the best energy decay rate of the beam-spring system.