TOPICS RELATED TO ROTORCRAFTAND VERTICAL FLIGHT: The rotary wing program led by Professor Wood has worked in the following areas: Professors Wood's and Danielson's and research for 1999 and 2000 is focused on developing the capability of modeling the effects of a 23mm HEI (high explosive incendiary) inside the Comanche helicopter. Recent work at NPS has resulted in a new and powerful tool for e...

In sensor based planning exploration is unavoidable. To understand this aspect of sensor based planning, the authors consider the problem of motion planning for a point with "tactile sensors". In dimensions greater than two, this problem has been shown to be unsolvable given a certain mathematical framework. But, if the formulation of the problem is changed by taking the C-space to be discrete,...

F l eming and Had l ey reported the use of D D T at the high degree level of 100 pounds of actua l toxicant per acre with scant success a s a control measure. Since then D D T has been used by them at 1000 pounds per ac re w i th no control resulting. In addition they discussed unpublished reports to the ef fect that a t a country club near Rye. N . Y , , t reatments fo r several years w i th e...

T he N oha ElGanzouri/M elissa Peters ticket an d th e D eb o rah Sheedy/Angela McNulty ticket sh are many of the sam e goals for the upcoming year but hold d iffe ren t ideas reg a rd in g the im plem entation of these goals, a c c o rd in g to S tu d e n t Body President candidate Sheedy. These goals include increas­ ing s tu d e n t in v o lv e m e n t a t campus wide events, expanding servi...

BACKGROUND Chronic proton pump inhibitor administration has been associated with electrolyte and cobalamin deficiency, disrupted bone homeostasis, hypergastrinemia, and rebound acid hypersecretion in humans. It is unknown if this occurs in cats. OBJECTIVES Prolonged oral omeprazole results in altered bone mineral density or content, serum calcium, magnesium, cobalamin, and gastrin concentrati...

Objective: To evaluate the diagnostic usefulness of a gelatin based Waaler Rose assay (Serodia-RAH) for the detection of rheumatoid factor (RF) in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Methods: RF was measured by Serodia-RA and rate nephelometry in 90 patients with RA according to the revised ACR criteria and 102 patients with rheumatological diseases other than RA. Sensitivity, specificity, accuracy, lik...

Introduction Learners in the emergency department (ED) frequently encounter individuals who are homeless. We sought to evaluate the effect of an inner city emergency medicine rotation at the Royal Alexandra Hospital (RAH) on the attitudes of medical students and residents towards this population. Methods Data were collected both pre- and post-rotation using an electronic survey. Data collected ...

As leaders for nursing education, nursing research, healthcare administration and patient safety, we asked one another: How do we use our collective resources to build health system capacity for clinically based research training and safer healthcare? Drawing on knowledge from the field of ecological restoration, which is the study and repair of damaged ecosystems, we partnered the Safer System...

This workshop, sponsored by AIM and NSF, was devoted to the emerging theory of stability and hyperbolicity of functions. These notions are well known in the univariate setting, where stability means that all zeros lie in the left-half plane and hyperbolicity means that all zeros are real [CM, Post, Fisk, Rah]. The multivariate generalizations go back to 1950s and are being actively explored now...

Den Abschluss des Treffens bildeten die Be-richte aus den Arbeitskreisen der Fachgruppe. Klaus Schmid vom ISES Kaiserslautern fasste die erzielten Ergebnisse des AK "RE für Produktlinien" zusammen. Frank Houdek berichtete, dass der AK "RE-Prozesse" seine Arbeiten abgeschlossen hat und präsentierte die erzielten Ergebnisse. Eine Pub-likation der Ergebnisse wird angestrebt. Abschlie-ßend stellte ...