When we last month interviewed Professor Klaas Jan Beek, Congress Director and former ITC rector, he mentioned (off the record) the name of Martien Molenaar as a member of the hard core photogrammetric tribe at ITC, which had yet to be convinced that the future of the institute lay in RS and GIS. In 1983 Molenaar was appointed professor at Wageningen Agricultural University (WAU), where Beek ha...

Organizations are increasingly in search of ways to derive more business values from IT investments and the need for capabilities (ITC) is surging. ITC critical significant build enterprise agility promote organizational performance. However, capability always treated as causal factor already existing there few studies on how created evaluated. Appropriate evaluation necessary an organization m...

Adverse drug events (ADEs) may cause serious injuries including death. Spontaneous reporting of ADEs plays a great role in detection and prevention of them, however, underreporting always exists. Although several interventions have been utilized to solve this problem, they are mainly based on experience and the rationale for choosing them has no theoretical base. The vast variety of behavioral ...

One of the more commonly cited reasons for rejecting a manuscript at AMR is that reviewers feel the submission lacks “construct clarity.” Yet reviewers (and editors) often find it difficult to articulate precisely what construct clarity is. Indeed, in contrast to other social sciences, such as sociology and psychology, where the nature and role of constructs are subjects of considerable debate,...

On August 8, 2005, the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPAct 2005) increased the Section 48 investment tax credit (ITC) for commercial photovoltaic (PV) systems from 10% to 30% of the project’s “tax credit basis” (i.e., the dollar amount to which the ITC applies), and also created in Section 25D of the Internal Revenue Code a new 30% ITC (capped at $2,000) for residential solar systems. Both changes...

Fluconazole (FLC), a triazole with limited activity against Aspergillus species, is frequently used as prophylaxis in leukemia patients and bone marrow transplant recipients. Prior FLC use has been associated with an increasing incidence of invasive aspergillosis in these patients. We hypothesized that prior exposure of Aspergillus fumigatus to FLC could result in altered in vitro susceptibilit...

Isothermal titration calorimetry (ITC) was utilised to investigate suitability of the technique to determine the stoichiometry and thermodynamics of the interactions that occur between a commonly used chemotherapeutic drug, namely doxorubicin, and a polymer bead-based drug delivery embolisation system (DC Bead™). Six temperatures were selected for drug-polymer titrations (293-313 K) and in all ...

This paper describes the conceptual model that underlies the International Tobacco Control Policy Evaluation Project (ITC Project), whose mission is to measure the psychosocial and behavioural impact of key policies of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) among adult smokers, and in some countries, among adult non-smokers and among youth. The evaluation framework utilises multiple...

We studied by native ESI-MS the binding of various DNA-polymerase-derived peptides onto DNA-polymerase processivity rings from Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Mycobacterium tuberculosis. These homodimeric rings present two equivalent specific binding sites, which leads to successive formation during a titration experiment of singly- and doubly occupied rings. By using the ESI-MS f...

The morphological and proliferative effects of intratracheal cannulation (ITC) or intralaryngeal cannulation (ILC), with or without the instillation of saline or Fe2O3 particles in saline, were studied in Syrian golden hamsters. Instillation of Fe2O3 in saline at either airway level resulted in a similar distribution of Fe2O3 particles in all lung lobes. ILC produced laryngeal mucosal wounds. I...