-A simple gas chromatographic method was developed for the determination of cyanogen chloride and cyanogen bromide in drinking waters. Saturated headspace is injected directly onto a capillary column and the analytes are quantified by electron capture detection. Method detection limits are 0.04 and 0.2 #g/l for CNCI and CNBr, respectively. Effects of temperature and salt addition on analyte res...

vision of a just society based on personal values--values either acknowledged as subjective or asserted to be empirically derived. What is missing? Why can't effective programs be designed-by us or others? As an applied behavior analyst who teaches and supervises clinical graduate students, I am often confronted with a problem which seems to me to have the same basic form: Students wonder why a...

" Kuhnians depict the history of any scientific discipline as a succession of incommensurable paradigms. Empirical work done in one paradigm is of little relevance to another, and comparisons of paradigms on such familiar grounds as experimental adequacy are said to be inconclusive. Different paradigms do not agree on what constitutes knowledge or the meaning of truth. The recent work of other ...

During the past decade, a wide array of books have addressed the topic of new and emerging infectious diseases. In The Microbial Challenge: Human-Microbe Interactions, Robert I. Krasner attempts to put this topic into a format appropriate for classroom presentation. The book is sufficiently well done to stand alone in some situations, but supplemental material may be necessary in others. The Mi...

Although a number of techniques are available for estimating the biomass of filamentous microorganisms in soil, determination of their activity is much more difficult. We report on preliminary studies evaluating the potential use of the volatile microbial secondary metabolites geosmin and methylisoborneol as indicators of activity of filamentous microorganisms. The purge-and-trap technique for ...

ion from “user interfaces for all.” In C. Stephanidis (Ed.), Proceedings of the 1st ERCIM Workshop “User Interfaces for All”. Retrieved April 17, 2003 from http://ui4all.ics.forth.gr/UI4ALL–95/proceedings.htmlGutwin, C., & Greenberg, S. (1998). Effects of awareness support on groupware usability. In J. Coutaz & J. Karat (Eds.), Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing...

In the practice of oncology, it is difficult not to be impressed by the number of clinical situations that necessitate the conveyance of unfavorable medical information to patients and families. These include the communication of the cancer diagnosis, a poor prognosis, the failure of anticancer treatment, the occurrence of unwanted and significant side effects, the ineligibility for a clinical ...

An expert panel was established to formulate aconsensus statement on Skin Changes At Life’s End(SCALE). The panel consists of 18 internationallyrecognized key opinion leaders including clinicians,caregivers, medical researchers, legal experts,academicians, a medical writer and leaders ofprofessional organizations. The inaugural forum washeld on April 4-6, 2008 in...

In this paper, a case study is used to evaluate the business process characterizing modeling (BPCM) language. The BPCM-framework is meant to guide both business stakeholders and model developers during model-based development. The focus of the approach is the use of BPCM as a starting point for capturing process knowledge when planning and developing information system support. Based on informa...