This study aimed to investigate the effect of two different gang-lines on pulling angle sled dogs. It was hypothesised that dogs would run with a straighter pull (in relation main-line) in stick (STICK) than they do traditional (TRAD). Eight dogs, divided into teams, ran 3.1 km trail twice both types gang-lines, quadbike dry ground. Each dog remained its team same position (side gang line, and ...

Background and objectives: Needle stick and sharp injuries (NSIs) has remained as a persisting occupational hazard among the healthcare workers. This study aimed to provide updated information on the intensity and potential causes of the problem in Iran, by surveying a sample from major hospitals affiliated with Tehran University of Medical Sciences.   Methods: Of 3312 healthcare workers with...

euronal growth cones have detergent-resistant membranes (DRMs), specialized cell membrane fractions enriched in GPI-anchored proteins and intracellular signaling molecules. But are the DRMs involved in regulating neurite outgrowth? Yes, say Nakai and Kamiguchi (page 1097), who developed a new technique for selectively disrupting DRMs, and used it to demonstrate the functional importance of thes...

As one of the first tools used by man, the stick is simple, yet versatile. The first men could use a stick as a weapon against other nomadic barbarians, a skewer to eat meat and vegetables, a probe for investigating strange areas, a backscratcher for itching pains, or any other task that benefited man by extending his arm. Therefore, it seemed logical that this tool be our starting point for th...

Michael Mann knows his students and his subject. The topic of the graduate seminar: El Niño and radiative forcing. The beer he will be serving: Corona, “because I’m going to be talking about tropical climate.” Not surprisingly, attendance is high. Mann is most famously known for the “hockey stick,” a plot of the past millennium’s temperature that shows the drastic infl uence of humans in the 20...

Today technology is improving daily in different aspects in order to provide flexible and safe movement for the people. Currently the most widespread and used mean by the visually impaired people are the white stick, however it has limitations. With the latest technology, it is possible to extend the support give to people with visual impairment during their mobility; this paper proposes an eco...

We present a new embedded instrument, with discussion on the challenges of developing embedded instruments, and the practice and theory of NIME evaluation and design. The Shake Stick is a Raspberry Pi-based embedded instrument using SuperCollider for granular synthesis. In our analysis and design, we explore the MINUET design framework, dimension space analysis for inter-instrument comparison, ...

We propose a class of kernel stick-breaking processes for uncountable collections of dependent random probability measures. The process is constructed by first introducing an infinite sequence of random locations. Independent random probability measures and beta-distributed random weights are assigned to each location. Predictor-dependent random probability measures are then constructed by mixi...

A logistic stick-breaking process (LSBP) is proposed for non-parametric clustering of general spatially- or temporally-dependent data, imposing the belief that proximate data are more likely to be clustered together. The sticks in the LSBP are realized via multiple logistic regression functions, with shrinkage priors employed to favor contiguous and spatially localized segments. The LSBP is als...

The two visual systems hypothesis in neuroscience suggests that pointing without visual feedback may be less affected by spatial visual illusions than cognitive interactions such as judged target location. Our study examined predictions of this theory for target localization on a large-screen display. We contrasted pointing interactions under varying levels of visual feedback with location judg...