234 January 2014 OOur job was to render her unconscious and insensate to the scraping within her body. Barely nineteen, Lisa had come to us to terminate a pregnancy. Now, she lay stiffly on the table, grasping her fingers so tightly that her nails left an imprint. I had placed a 16-gauge IV, our single point of access, and within minutes her fears, hopes and pains were entangled in tubes and wi...

Graded exercise testing (GXT), per a cycle-ergometer (CE), offers safety and monitoring advantages over treadmill (TM) GXT. Unfortunately, CE-VO2max and some other cardiorespiratory (CR) variables are frequently lower than TM-GXT values. It has been difficult to compare TM and CE-GXT values. However, it was hypothesized that standing towards the conclusion of the CE-GXT (Stand-CE) might increas...

Lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta) forests are widely distributed throughout North America and are subject to mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae) epidemics, which have caused mortality over millions of hectares of mature trees in recent decades. Mountain pine beetle is known to influence stand structure, and has the ability to impact many forest processes. Dwarf mistletoe (Arceuthobium ...

To warrant high reliability of key components of systems, stand-by units are used. If such a component fails and at least one not failed stand-by unit remains, it operates instead of the key component. If this one fails, the second stand-by unit is used and so on until the last stand-by unit fails. We suppose that switching is instantaneous and there are no repairs. If the stand-by units are fu...

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This article describes the uncertain future of the online catalog, and the tension that exists between creating a cataloging code that meets user needs while adhering to principles deemed important by the cataloging community. Underscoring this tension are the provocative questions posited by the Taiga Steering Committee, which call into question the future of libraries. For the traditional cat...

ENFORUM ist ein internetbasiertes virtuelles Wörterbuch mit enzyklopädischen Eigenschaften auf dem weiteren Gebiet der Informationswissenschaft, welches sich intensiv auf die Hypertextmethodologie und die Potenziale elektronischer Kommunikationsforen stützt. In Abgrenzung zu den sonst im Internet verfügbaren Online-Wörterbüchern bzw. Enzyklopädien werden bei ENFORUM Begriffseinträge nicht von e...

The paper uses both the single rotation and ongoing rotation framework to study the impact of yield tax, lump-sum tax, cash flow tax and tax on interest rate earnings on the privately optimal rotation period when forest value growth is stochastic and forest owners are either risk neutral or risk averse. In the case of risk-neutral forest owner higher yield tax raises the optimal harvesting thre...

A torsional-type thrust stand has been designed and built to test Pulsed Plasma Thrusters (PPTs) in both single shot and repetitive operatingmodes. Using this stand, momentum per pulse was determined strictly as a function of thrust stand deflection, spring stiffness, and natural frequency. No empirical corrections were required. The accuracy of the method was verified using a swinging impact p...

i had to turn off the television the other night. i watched “stand up for cancer” for over an hour and did not hear the word i was so desperately waiting to hear: nurse. Although i applaud the efforts of those who made history by getting the network giants to come together and tackle the national cancer epidemic in front of the American public, i could not bear to watch the show a minute longer...