Despite national plans to deploy smart meters in small and medium businesses in the UK, there is little knowledge of occupant energy use in offices. The objectives of the study were to investigate the effect of individual feedback on energy use at the workdesk, and to test the relationship between individual determinants, energy use and energy reduction. A field trial is presented, which monito...

In the last two decades, the cervical cancer puzzle has become a coherent description that includes the identification of human papillomavirus (HPV) as the sexually transmitted etiologic agent and the characterization of the major determinants of HPV acquisition. Triage studies have consistently shown that HPV testing is more sensitive that repeated cytology in identifying underlying high-grade...

Radiation exposure is a possible predisposing factor for monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS), but the association has been uncertain. We investigated the relationship between radiation exposure and MGUS prevalence by using data from the M-protein screening for Nagasaki atomic bomb survivors between 1988 and 2004. Radiation exposure was assessed by exposure distance from th...

We investigate recent claims that the Hubble sequence of spiral galaxies is scale-free. Fundamental to this investigation is the fact that within the photometric data of 86 spiral galaxies from de Jong & van der Kruit (1994) from which these claims were made a trend exists between morphological type and bulge profile shape. While late-type spiral bulges are described by an exponential luminosit...

N yeast, as in other organisms where tetrad analysis is feasible, it is possible to Idetermine the distance between a given gene and the centromere of its chromosome. This may be accomplished directly if the relationship of the spores in the ascus is known. Two such relationships have been demonstrated. In the four-spored asci of Schizosaccharomyces pombe, the two spores at each end of the ascu...

Electron microscopy shows that ascomata of Myxotricum arcticum bear a striking resemblance to discocarps in morphogenesis and in previously overlooked aspects of gross morphology. Although mature ascomata of M. arcticum superficially resemble reticuloperidial cleistothecia common in the Onygenales, the bramble-like aggregation of thick-walled hyphae, previously considered to represent a closed ...

BACKGROUND In an earlier study, our research group presented an alternative approach to measuring knowledge about mental disorders by constructing a structure-based expert model of the ICD-10 mental disorders. This article presents a validation of this expert model by measuring the emergence of such knowledge structures in psychotherapy students. SAMPLING AND METHODS The participants of a con...

BACKGROUND To determine whether there is greater employee satisfaction in organisations that have made more progress in implementation of the European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM) model. METHODS A series of cross-sectional studies (one for each assessment cycle) comparing staff satisfaction survey results between groups of healthcare organisations by degree of implementation of th...

Monoclonal free light chains are found in the serum and urine of patients with B-cell proliferative disorders, including multiple myeloma. Measuring free light chains in serum is useful for the diagnosis and monitoring of free light chains diseases. Moreover it could be interesting in the monitoring of treated multiple myeloma with complete immunoglobulin and of monoclonal gammapathy of undeter...

This study evaluates the correlation between failure to develop spontaneous imitation and language skills in pervasive developmental disorders. Sixty-four children between the age of 3 and 8 years were assessed using the Autism Diagnostic Interview-Revised (ADI-R), the Childhood Autism Rating Scale (CARS), and the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS), as well as direct observation of i...