Educational solutions for allied health professionals (AHP’s) need to stimulate problem-solving skills although AHP’s seldom have the opportunity to develop these skills in a paediatric environment prior to registration. Computer aided learning (CAL) has become an established educational option with a growing body of literature detailing positive CAL introduction within HC education across many...

most commercial varieties in the cooler months will fade with In a survey of the South African and Swaziland sugarcane industries in 1997, symptoms of yellow leaf syndrome (YLS) were found in all areas and in a wide range of varieties. As in previous years, symptoms were present from late autumn to early summer. Symptoms were particularly common in the contrasting areas of the Midlands region o...

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the most daunting diseases due to its increasing worldwide prevalence, which requires imperative development of minimally or non-invasive screening tests. Urinary polyamines have been reported as potential markers to detect CRC, and an accurate pattern recognition to differentiate CRC with early stage cases from healthy controls are needed. Here, we utilized li...

This paper explores the spatial dimension of the landscape, with the aim of building an indicator of landscape state for the European Union that accounts for the difference in heterogeneity among rural landscapes across Member States. The investigation mainly utilised land cover data from the CORINE Land Cover 2000 inventory. This was later compared with ground truth photographic data for speci...

In order to investigate the propionate-degrading community of agricultural biogas plants, four propionate-degrading consortia (Ap1a, N12, G12, and Wp2a) were established from different biogas plants which were fed with renewable resources. The consortia were cultivated in a batch for a period of 2-4 years and then analyzed in an 8-week batch experiment for microbial succession during propionate...

Annualized output growth in the United States was highest during the 1920s, as compared to any other of Field’s (2003, 2009) growth cycles. This motivates us to address the causes of the Roaring Twenties in the United States. In particular, we use a version of the real business cycle model to test the hypothesis that an extraordinary pace of productivity growth was the driving factor. Our motiv...

Although elderly hospitalized patients, irrespective of the cause of hospitalization, are known to be at a high risk of subsequent development of pneumonia, some studies suggest the risk to be even higher in those hospitalized for pneumonia than in those hospitalized for other diseases. The aim of this retrospective study was to determine the association of hospitalization for pneumonia and som...

This paper considers how oral contraception's diffusion to young unmarried women affected the number and parental characteristics of children born to these women. In the short-term, pill access caused declines in fertility and increases in both the share of children born with low birthweight and the share born to poor households. In the long-term, access led to negligible changes in fertility w...

OBJECTIVE To determine the amplitude changes of vestibular evoked myogenic potentials (VEMPs) recorded simultaneously from the neck (cVEMPs) and eyes (oVEMPs) in response to 500 Hz, 2 ms air-conducted sound pips over a 30 dB range. METHODS Fifteen healthy volunteers (mean age 29, range 18-57 years old) and one patient with unilateral superior canal dehiscence (SCD) were studied. The stimulus ...

Six groups of Munich-Wistar rats underwent micropuncture study 2-10 weeks and morphologic studies 11-13 months after induction of streptozotocin diabetes or after sham treatment. Diabetic rats received diets containing 6% (group D6), 12% (D12), or 50% protein (D50) and were maintained under similar conditions of moderate hyperglycemia by daily injections of ultralente insulin. Age- and weight-m...