BACKGROUND This research was a part of a contestable rapid response initiative launched by the Health Research Council of New Zealand and the Ministry of Health in response to the 2009 influenza A pandemic. The aim was to provide health authorities in New Zealand with evidence-based practical information to guide the development and delivery of effective health messages for H1N1 and other healt...

The Method of Loci (MOL) is an ancient mnemonic strategy used to enhance serial recall. Traditionally, the MOL is carried out by imagining navigating a familiar environment and "placing" the to-be-remembered items in specific locations. For retrieval, the mnemonist re-imagines walking through the environment, "looking" for those items in order. Here we test a novel MOL method, where participant...

Eighty first-litter sows in a commercial piggery were assigned to two feeding treatments during a 26-day lactation. A commercial diet containing an estimated 15% crude protein (CP), 0.65% lysine and 12.5 MJ digestible energy (DE)/kg was offered to sows in the control group which consumed 3.04 kg/day. Sows in the treatment group were given a higher quality diet containing 16.4% CP, 0.83% lysine ...

OBJECTIVE To test the working hypotheses that after a brief (10 min) intervention, (a) young adults can volitionally reduce fall-related wrist impact forces, and (b) no difference in impact force would exist between intervention and control groups at 3-weeks or 3-months follow-up. BACKGROUND The wrist is the most commonly fractured site in the body at any age, most often as a result of impact...

On November 20, 2009, the Industrial Wind Action Group (IWAG) posted an editorial that, in part, lists a number of concerns about Berkeley Lab’s efforts to investigate the presence of residential property value impacts associated with U.S. wind power facilities. 1 That editorial follows from more-extensive review comments provided on September 11, 2009 by the Industrial Wind Action Group. 2 The...

The Australian DRG variant (Australian National DRGs from versions 1 to 3, and Australian Refined DRGs thereafter) compares favourably with other variants in use around the world. This view is supported by a variety of empirical studies (see for example Reid, Palmer & Aisbett 2000) and by experiences of its adoption by several health care systems. An example is its recent selection for use in G...

In 1902 Burnside [4] wrote "A still undecided point in the theory of discontinuous groups is whether the order of a group may be not finite while the order of every operation it contains is finite". This leads to the following problem, now called the Burnside problem: "If a group is finitely generated and of finite exponent, is it finite?" This is a very difficult question so a weaker form know...

Occupational diseases are a significant problem affecting public health. Safety training is an important method of preventing occupational illness. Training is increasingly being delivered by computer although theories of learning from computer-based multimedia have been tested almost entirely on college students. This study was designed to determine whether these theories might also be applied...

In a pair of recent articles, the author develops a general version of small cancellation theory applicable in higher dimensions ([5]), and then applies this theory to the Burnside groups of sufficiently large exponent ([6]). More specifically, these articles prove that the free Burnside groups of exponent n ≥ 1260 are infinite groups which have a decidable word problem. The structure of the fi...