Mathematics is important in science, technology and economics. Unfortunately, in recent decades students' mathematical skills seem to have deteriorated in western countries. Tampere University of Technology (TUT) has an extensive set of measures to support and help freshmen with their mathematics skills. At the start of their studies, all students have to take the Basic Skills Test (BST) in Mat...

Because of its ability to induce contact dermatitis, the establishment and spread of poison ivy is recognized as a significant public health concern. In the current study, we quantified potential changes in the biomass and urushiol content of poison ivy as a function of incremental changes in global atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration (CO2). We also examined the rate of new leaf developmen...

During exercise, pulse oximetry is problematic due to motion artifact and altered digital perfusion. New pulse oximeter technology addresses these issues and may offer improved performance. We simultaneously compared Nellcor N-395 (Oxismart XLTM) pulse oximeters with an RS-10 forehead sensor (RS-10), a D-25 digit sensor (D-25), and the Ivy 2000 (Masimo SETTM)/LNOP-Adt digit sensor (Ivy) to arte...

BACKGROUND English ivy (Hedera helix) is well known for its adhesive properties and climbing ability. Essential to its ability to adhere to vertical surfaces is the secretion of a nanocomposite adhesive containing spherical nanoparticles, 60-85 nm in diameter, produced exclusively by root hairs present on adventitious roots. These organic nanoparticles have shown promise in biomedical and cosme...

Social networking websites have become increasingly popular, and have also become the main media not only to connect lives socially, but also to affect brand image and consumers’ purchase intention. The purpose of this paper is to incorporate the Facebook fan page and e-journal provide over the Internet (cloud e-journal) with the uses and gratification theory to test the impact on brand image a...

While a dot plot depicts data on quantitative variable without distortion, boxplot shows only the five-number summary. For large data, to aid in counting, we propose an IVY as companion plot. Also, for if is approximately normally distributed, boxplot, Gaussian interval that summary, mean, SD, sample size, and counts of outliers. We hope these enhanced visualizations will add value commonly use...

Contact with poison ivy (Toxicodendron radicans) is one of the most widely reported ailments at poison centers in the United States, and this plant has been introduced throughout the world, where it occurs with other allergenic members of the cashew family (Anacardiaceae). Approximately 80% of humans develop dermatitis upon exposure to the carbon-based active compound, urushiol. It is not known...

Introduction I read with great interest the contribution of Maleki et al. entitled ”Normal range of bleeding time in urban and rural areas of Borujerd, west of Iran” that has been published in recent issue of ARYA Atherosclerosis. The bleeding time test (BTT) is an old invivo test for evaluation of platelets function and vascular integrity with low producibility. Its procedure and performance i...

Aims: To evaluate the nematicidal potential of wild spinach powder in combination with fresh chopped leaves of different plants viz., Indian mallow, Mexican poppy, Ivy gourd, Trailing eclipta, Wild eggplant and Black pigweed against Meloidogyne incognita on plant growth characters of tomato cv. K-21. Place and Duration of Study: A glasshouse pot experiment was carried out in the Department of B...