METHODS The survey was distributed to all member categories of the ASMS by e-mail and included demographic questions regarding ethnicity, practice type, location, and gender. Information on barriers to conversion to full active membership was solicited and participants were given the opportunity to elaborate in free text comments. The second arm charged the planning committee with placing “a wo...

The University of Queensland now has three Collaborative Teaching and Learning Centres which represent an evolution in understanding of the interrelation between pedagogy, space and technology. The original and largest centre, with six collaborative classrooms of three different types was opened in 2005 and is located in the Sir James Foots building on the St Lucia Campus. In 2007, a second gen...

This paper describes a system in PROLOG for the automatic transforination of a grammar, written in LFG formalism, into a DCG-based parser. It demonstrates the main principles of the transformation, the representation of f-structures and constraints, the treatment of long-distance dependencies, and left rccursion. Finally some problem areas of the system and possibilities for overcoming them are...

Overcoming the IC power challenge requires signal energy recovery, which can be achieved utilizing adiabatic charging principles and logically reversible computing in the circuit design. This paper demonstrates the energyefficiency of a Bennett-clocked adiabatic CMOS multiplier via a simulation model. The design is analyzed on the logic gate level to determine an estimate for the number of irre...

Proper planning and execution of mass vaccination at the onset of a pandemic outbreak is important for local health departments. Mass vaccination clinics are required to be setup and run for naturally occurring pandemic outbreaks or even in response to terrorist attacks, e.g., anthrax attack. Walk-in clinics have often been used to administer vaccines. When a large percentage of a population mu...

The response of pea (Pisum sativum) genotypes to ascochyta blight disease and the effect of disease severity on yield components were evaluated in a 4-year trial under field conditions. Peas were inoculated with Ascochyta pinodes, the anamorph of Mycosphaerella pinodes, or with Phoma pinodella separately and with a mixture of both species. Mean infection ratings of all inoculation treatments we...

Research on student retention and transition in higher education has been an ongoing focus since the 1950s and during the past decade research into this area has gathered momentum as institutions of higher education increasingly recognise the economic and social costs of failing to retain and transition future graduates. Measures to improve transition and retention rates have generally focused ...

Many problems in applied mathematics can be abstracted into finding a common point of a finite collection of sets. If all the sets are closed and convex in a Hilbert space, the method of successive projections (MOSP) has been shown to converge to a solution point, i.e., a point in the intersection of the sets. These assumptions are however not suitable for a broad class of problems. In this pap...

To evaluate the performance of mungbean genotypes including C.V. NM98, C.V. Ramzan and a local genotype as check, an experiment was designed in farmers’ field in Rarasham district Musakhel. This region is situated in Monsoon belt of Balochistan province of Pakistan. Mungbean is one of the major kharif pulse crop grown in this region as solo or intercropped with sorghum or millet. Significant va...