Plumbing nickel from the core

Plumbing the brain drain.

Opportunity is the driving force of migration. Unsatisfied demands for higher education and skills, which have been created by the knowledge-based global economy, have generated unprecedented opportunities in knowledge-intensive service industries. These multi-trillion dollar industries include information, communication, finance, business, education and health. The leading industrialized natio...

Sphingomonas Infections Arising from Hospital Plumbing Fixtures

(96%). The frequency of effective cleaning of high-touch surfaces in occupied patient rooms significantly improved following education (Table). Conclusion. A novel educational program, designed using adult learning theory, that addressed ESW’s self-identified challenges was well-received and appears to have resulted in learning, behavior change, and improved daily cleaning. Future research will...

Airway plumbing.

Basket, Flat Plumbing and Flat Plumbing Basket Numbers of Links

We define the basket number, the flat plumbing number and the flat plumbing basket number of a link. Then we provide some upperbounds for these plumbing numbers by using Seifert’s algorithm. We study the relation between these plumbing numbers and the genera of links.

Plumbing carbon nanotubes.

Since their discovery, the possibility of connecting carbon nanotubes together like water pipes has been an intriguing prospect for these hollow nanostructures. The serial joining of carbon nanotubes in a controlled manner offers a promising approach for the bottom-up engineering of nanotube structures--from simply increasing their aspect ratio to making integrated carbon nanotube devices. To d...