Why? Acrid smoke deposits are responsible for 511 000 of the 1.3 million deaths due to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) among women worldwide per year versus 173 000 of the total of 1.4 million deaths from COPD among men. Inefficient household energy practices may significantly affect the health of pregnant women such as pelvic organ prolapse during pregnancy due to heavy loads carr...

Both theoretical and empirical evidence suggest that, in many markets with standards competition, network effects make the strong grow stronger and can “tip” the market toward a single, winner-take-all standard. We hypothesize, however, that low cost digital conversion technologies, which facilitate easy compatibility across competing standards, may reduce the strength of these network effects....

1. ABSTRACT This paper examines the potential use of the Tablet PC-based Flash Cards Application (“application”) in a collaborative learning environment. The application provides the flexibility of handwritten input and the ability to share flash card decks. The application was deployed in an eighth grade geometry classroom at a girls' school in Pittsburgh. Nine students participated in the stu...

A quasi-experimental action research with a pretest-posttest same subject design was implemented to determine if there is a different effect of the flash card method and the multisensory approach on kindergarteners’ achievement in sight word recognition, and which method is more effective if there is any difference. Instrumentation for pretest and posttest were the Dolch sight word pre-primer a...

Flash memories could be a basis for mass storage with real-time guarantees if a suitable model for access timing could be established. To characterize the operation timing of removable flash media such as Compact Flash (CF) and MultiMedia Card (MMC), we propose a set of benchmarks. The results of our study indicate that a simple timing model for current media cannot be established. The timing o...