background: construction work (building houses, roads, workplaces, and repairing and maintaining infrastructures) is a dangerous land-based job. this includes many hazardous tasks and conditions such as working at the following conditions: height, excavation, noise, dust, power tools and equipment. construction work has been increased in developed and underdeveloped countries over the past few ...

A short ride by car or University bus will take you to North Campus, where you’ll find stellar examples of public art and exhibition venues located within the School of Art & Design, and parts of the School of Music, Theatre & Dance—the Walgreen Drama Center, which houses Stamps Auditorium and the Arthur Miller Theatre, and the Moore Building, which features Britton Recital Hall, Blanche Anders...

A. R. Sakhel, J. L. DuBois, and H. R. Glyde Faculty of Engineering Technology, Al-Balqa Applied University, Amman 11134, Jordan Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, 19 Gilman Hall, Berkeley, California 94720-1460, USA Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716, USA Received 25 February 2007; revised manuscript received 13 February...

Ivan S. Kourtev,† Ray R. Hoare,† Steven P. Levitan,† Tom Cain,† Bruce R. Childers,‡ Donald M. Chiarulli,‡ David Landis,¶ †Dept. of Electrical Engineering ‡Dept. of Computer Science ¶Pittsburgh Digital Greenhouse 348 Benedum Hall Sennott Square Regional Enterprise Tower University of Pittsburgh University of Pittsburgh 425 Sixth Avenue, Suite 1150 Pittsburgh, PA 15261 Pittsburgh, PA 15260 Pittsb...

where g1(x), . . . , gr(x) span R for all x. Note that r may be greater than m. This is because the vector fields are a function of position, and there may not be a fixed set of m brackets that span R ∀x. For an example, see [1], page 238. The new inputs v are referred to as fictitious inputs, because the v’s corresponding to the gi, i > m do not correspond to real inputs. Further, we require t...

D. Bauer, A. Borgland, B. Cabrera, F. Calaprice, J. Cooley, P. Cushman, T. Empl, R. Essig, E. Figueroa-Feliciano, R. Gaitskell, C. Galbiati, S. Golwala, J. Hall, R. Hill, A. Hime, E. Hoppe, L. Hsu, E. Hungerford, R. Jacobsen, M. Kelsey, R. F. Lang, W. H. Lippincott, B. Loer, S. Luitz, V. Mandic, J. Mardon, J. Maricic, R. Maruyama, D. N. McKinsey, R. Mahapatra, H. Nelson, J. Orrell, K. Palladino...

With the hopes o f fostering a greater inte llectual envi­ ronment at Notre Dame, the Inte llectual Life Committee met Wednesday for the firs t time this year. The commit­ tee, consisting of students, faculty, and adm inistrators, focused its attention on the fu rthe r development o f the Hall Fellows program. The Hall Fellows program works to enhance the in te r­ action between students and fa...