BACKGROUND School visits to farms are a positive educational experience but pose risks due to the spread of zoonotic infections. A lesson plan to raise awareness about microbes on the farm and preventative behaviours was developed in response to the Griffin Investigation into the E. coli outbreak associated with Godstone Farm in 2009. This study evaluated the effectiveness of the delivery of th...

Physical modeling in computer music has been developing for twenty-five years. An assortment of algorithms, often in the form of "self-modeling" by musician / engineers, has accumulated and become available to composers. These software instruments have become material for composition and unveiling the range of designs forms the focus of this report. To a large extent, schemes applied in the wor...

The past twenty-five years have witnessed an increasing awareness of the importance of cognitive control in the regulation of complex behavior. It now sits alongside attention, memory, language and thinking as a distinct domain within cognitive psychology. At the same time it permeates each of these sibling domains. This paper reviews recent work on cognitive control in an attempt to provide a ...

Airline deregulation is spreading worldwide and has important consequences for the planning, design, and management of airports. One important effect is that the overall traffic at an airport -and by extension its revenues is much more volatile in a liberal environment. This is demonstrated by analysis of the US experience over the last twenty-five years. The increased risk thus associated with...

In this paper, the applicability of immobilized lanthanum (III) triflate on amine grafted graphene oxide [La(OTf)2-amine grafted-GO] as the first multifunctional catalyst is described for the efficient synthesis of α-aminophosphonates by one-pot three-component reaction of carbonyl compounds, substituted anilines and trialkyl phosphites. Various α-aminophosphonates were synthesized in good to h...

We assessed and compared abiotic preferences of aquatic macroinvertebrates in three river basins located in Ecuador, Ethiopia and Vietnam. Upon using logistic regression models we analyzed the relationship between the probability of occurrence of five macroinvertebrate families, ranging from pollution tolerant to pollution sensitive, (Chironomidae, Baetidae, Hydroptilidae, Libellulidae and Lept...

Present study examined the relationship between Service and Repeated Volley Skills among Volleyball Players. Total twenty five (N-25) female volleyball players their age ranged from 17 to 19 years were selected as subject from Navodaya Vidyalaya School, Sector25, Chandigarh. Service and Repeated Volley abilities were measured by administrating RussellLange Volleyball Skill Test. The data was an...

Although support vector machine (SVM) has become a powerful tool for pattern classification and regression, a major disadvantage is it fails to exploit the underlying correlation between any pair of data points as much as possible. Inspired by the modified pairwise constraints trick, in this paper, we propose a novel classifier termed as support vector machine with hypergraph-based pairwise con...

The response of chinchilla basilar membrane in the basal region of the cochlea to multicomponent (1, 3, 5, 6, or 7) stimuli was studied using a laser interferometer. Three-component stimuli were amplitude-modulated signals with modulation depths that varied from 25% to 200% and the modulation frequency varied from 100 to 2000 Hz while the carrier frequency was set to the characteristic frequenc...