There is a tendency to think of World Englishes in the noun form; as products rather than as processes (implying that one receives both ready-made, controlling the development of neither). Conceptualising World Englishes as processes in which one can participate as an agent raises the question of what skills are needed in their active construction. The author will argue that since culture resid...

INTRODUCTION The metabolic syndrome (MetS) may contribute to the excess cardiovascular burden observed in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). The prevalence and associations of the MetS in RA remain uncertain: systemic inflammation and anti-rheumatic therapy may contribute. Methotrexate (MTX) use has recently been linked to a reduced presence of MetS, via an assumed generic anti-inflammatory mechanism. ...

The development of automated methods for revealing the repetitive structure of a given music recording is of central importance in music information retrieval. In this paper, we present a novel scape plot representation that allows for visualizing repetitive structures of the entire music recording in a hierarchical, compact, and intuitive way. In a scape plot, each point corresponds to an audi...

The title compound, C(8)H(18)N(4)O(2) (2+)·2Cl(-), contains two oxime groups. The methyl oxime group has a Z configuration, and the ethyl oxime group is disordered, with both Z and E configurations in occupancies of 0.840 (8) and 0.160 (8), respectively. In the crystal structure, there are a number of N-H⋯Cl hydrogen bonds.

Modified tau is a parameter computed by ACAS to estimate the earliest time at which a collision could occur should an intruder aircraft accelerate toward the own aircraft. A concern with the modified tau calculation has been raised in a class of encounters where intruders are already close and converging slowly. In these problem cases, ACAS may induce a Near Mid-Air Collision by generating RAs ...

Background: Long-term treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) with prednisolone (PRED) is associated with bone mineral density (BMD) loss. This study aimed to determine the status of BMD in non-compliant women who used PRED alone for RA. Methods: Non-adherent RA taking < 7.5 mg daily PRED without DMARDs for > 6 months, and RA patients taking methotrexate +PRED (RA control) were compared with ag...

Multicultural professional psychologists routinely assert that psychotherapeutic interventions require culturally competent delivery for ethnoracial minority clients to protect the distinctive cultural orientations of these clients. Dominant disciplinary conceptualizations of cultural competence are ‘‘kind of person’’ models that emphasize specialized awareness, knowledge, and skills on the par...