Kirsch, with Public Sector Committee deputy chairperson and OSD negotiator, Dr Pophi Ramathuba, and backed by some key SAMA committees, want SAMA restructured into at least three business units to improve the lot of disparate interest groups. They say the new business model would address what they described as a long-standing systemic problem that makes scapegoats of SAMA chairpersons forced by...

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Th is review presents an exhaustive analysis of the current literature on ocular surface disease (OSD) in glaucoma. OSD in this population mainly manifests in the cornea and conjunctiva as superfi cial punctate keratitis and tear fi lm instability, aggravated by the chronic use of intraocular pressure–lowering medications; this could account for poor treatment adherence and worsening of the pat...

Dear Sir, The question whether Osgood-Schlatter disease (OSD) exists in the dog was raised in your journal four years ago (1). D. von Pfeil et al. concluded that the term OSD was not appropriate to use for dogs, as traction injuries to the tibial tuberosity were not found to cause the pathognomonic calcified particles within the distal aspect of the patellar ligament in this species (1). Subseq...

Occupational skin disease (OSD) is common, associated with poor prognosis and poses a significant burden to the individual and society. We applied the theory of planned behaviour (TPB), the prototype-willingness model (PWM) and the health action process approach (HAPA) to the prediction and explanation of occupationally relevant skin protection behaviour in individuals with OSD. We used a longi...

Offshore software development (OSD) is a leading business sector in the global IT marketplace, and vendors in different countries are opening software development centres to take advantage of new business opportunities. However, software development is both a technical and a social process in which various software modules are integrated, requiring ongoing interaction and synchronisation of act...

Organizational Self-Design (OSD) has been proposed as an approach to constructing suitable organizations at runtime in which the agents are responsible for constructing their own organizational structures. OSD has also been shown to be especially suited for environments that are dynamic and semi-dynamic. Most existing OSD approaches work by changing the organizational structure in response to c...

Abstract This study proposes a new method of estimating snow depth by using moment ( $${M}_{n}$$ M n ) particle size distribution $$SPSD$$ SPSD ). We assumed that estimated $$ESD$$ ESD is given simple relationship...

Optimal spectral decomposition (OSD) is applied to ocean data assimilation with variable (temperature, salinity, or velocity) anomalies (relative to background or modeled values) decomposed into generalized Fourier series, such that any anomaly is represented by a linear combination of products of basis functions and corresponding spectral coefficients. It has three steps: 1) determination of t...

Open sun drying (OSD) is the most common method of crop drying in developing countries. Despite several disadvantages, it is widely practiced because it is a simple way of drying. Crop temperature, temperature around the crop, solair temperature, and rate of moisture evaporation are the important parameters in OSD. The thermal behavior of OSD of green chillies, green pea, white gram (kabuli cha...