Certain wind turbine maintenance tasks require specialist equipment, such as a large crane for heavy lift operations. Equipment hire often has lead time of several weeks but equipment use is restricted by future weather conditions through speed safety limits, necessitating an assessment conditions. This paper sets out methodology producing subseasonal-to-seasonal (up to 6 ahead) forecasts that ...

Sequences of high tense vowel + liquid in English often result in the percept of an intervening schwa, as in, e.g., heel, hail, hire. We argue in this paper that this apparent schwa is simply the incidental acoustic result of the tongue moving through “schwa-space” (a schwa-like position) during the transition between conflicting tongue root targets. This conflict bears on both articulatory tim...

Health care organizations are becoming increasingly aware of the issues surrounding safe staffing because it affects all of us: the patient, public, profession, policy makers, and employers. The conduct of perfusion has been researched, but environmental factors surrounding perfusion have not. The intent of this study was to identify the current perfusion staff to case ratio, the decision facto...

Although much research examines how physicians perceive their patients, here we study how patients perceive physicians. We propose patients consider their physicians like personally emotionless ‘‘empty vessels’’: The higher is individuals’ need for care, the less they value physicians’ traits related to their personal lives (e.g., self-focused emotions), but the more they value physicians’ trai...

In this article, the author argues against the assertion, originating with “canonical” game studies texts such as Homo Ludens and Man, Play, and Games, that inherent in the definition of games is that they are “unproductive.” Instead, she makes a case for the notion of productive play, in which creative production for its own sake (as opposed to production for hire) is an active and integral pa...

BACKGROUND: For people with intellectual disability (ID), competitive integrated employment (CIE) offers many important benefits, including opportunities for inclusion as well enhanced mental health and quality of life. Yet, CIE outcomes ID are low. One systemic issue that has not been completely studied is employer willingness to hire workers ID. OBJECTIVE: The aim this study was understand fa...