BACKGROUND Hyperoxia-induced hypercapnia in subjects with COPD is mainly explained by alterations in the ventilation/perfusion ratio. However, it is unclear why respiratory drive does not prevent CO2 retention. Some authors have highlighted the importance of respiratory drive in CO2 increases during hyperoxia. The aim of the study was to examine the effects of hyperoxia on respiratory drive in ...

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is conducting a research program to investigate the crash compatibility of passenger cars, light trucks and vans (LTV’s) in vehicle-to-vehicle collisions. NHTSA has conducted a series of eight full-scale vehicle-to-vehicle crash tests to evaluate vehicle compatibility issues. Tests were conducted using four bullet vehicles representing ...

PURPOSE This study aimed to evaluate the program outcome in nursing baccalaureate in Korea. The analysis based on course embedded assessment. The concrete objectives were establishment of program outcome assessment, confirmation of student competency through weighting of program outcomes, and using the results of the evaluation in the circular feedback process in a nursing school in Korea. ME...

G controls continue to play a large part in marketing decision making despite a movement toward deregulation. This paper focuses on one regulatory mechanism which currently affects many marketers and apparently will continue to do so in the future—the FTC advertising substantiation program. In justifying its budget to Congress, the FTC declared that one of the salient matters included in its co...

The first objective of this paper is to present and discuss various types of models of program understanding. They are discussed in relation to models of text understanding. The second objective of this paper is to assess the effect of purpose for reading, or more specifically programming task, on the cognitive processes involved and representations constructed in program understanding. This is...

In 2012 the United States Congress issued a directive to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to modernize its nationally-representative crash databases and examine the data collected in those programs. In response, NHTSA initiated the Data Modernization Project to affirm its position as the leader in motor vehicle crash data collection and analysis, by collecting quality ...

BACKGROUND Conventional vaccination programs using a single injection of a combined vaccine against porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2) and Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae (MHYO) can promote a strong immune response that reduces feed intake for 24 to 48 h post injection. Often such vaccines are given around the time of weaning during a critical stress period in which feed intake is already compromised. S...

Engineering Criteria 2000 (EC 2000), the recently revised set of accreditation criteria for engineering programs in the US, places considerable stress on outcomes assessments. EC 2000 requires the assessment results to be used to identify program improvements, and for such usage and the resulting improvements to be documented. While numerous assessment instruments have been developed and discus...

Construction industry has the highest ratio of fatality of workers in comparison with other industries. Construction safety has been always a matter of focus to control safety risks. This article presents a new flexible method of safety risk assessment by adding Hybrid Value Number (HVN) to the assessment equation. As a result of using this method, the results of assessment process will be more...