A common approach to analyzing open-ended customer survey data is to manually assign codes to text observations. Basic descriptive statistics of the codes are then calculated. Subsequent reporting is an attempt to explain customer opinions numerically. While this approach provides numbers and percentages, it offers little insight. In fact, this method is tedious and time-consuming and can even ...

There is controversy in British Columbia regarding how dangerous bears are. Grizzly bear (Ursus arctos) population estimates range from 10,000–13,000; black bears (U. americanus), 120,000–160,000. From 1960–97, significantly fewer grizzly bears inflicted about 3 times as many serious injuries (N = 41 versus 14) but the same number of fatal injuries (N = 8) as black bears. The trend in terms of ...

remembered that he had been bitten on the hand by a mouse which he had rescued from his pet cat. A provisional diagnosis of leptospirosis was made and the patient was treated with intravenous ampicillin 6 g daily in divided doses. He made a good clinical recovery and returned to West Germany after 10 days. His liver function tests returned to normal over the following two months. Initial serolo...

The location choices made by visitors have important implications for wilderness management. The cumulative effect of visitors’ choices produces recreational use distributions, and many studies show that these are typically very uneven. A small proportion of access points accounts for most use, and use of trails or water routes is very uneven. Some campsites are heavily used while others are ra...

The successful establishment of invasive alien species in North America is strongly associated with global trade. Invasive insects and pathogens that affect plants are regularly introduced through international trade and domestic freight shipments, but few studies have directly quantified the invasion risks caused by commercial transportation at regional or larger scales. Similarly, despite muc...

From July 19 to July 23, 2005, an outbreak of gastroenteritis occurred among the students and teaching staff at a high school in Fukuoka City, Japan. A total of 409 persons, including 393 students and 16 staff members, went camping at a town in Oita Prefecture, from July 18 to 20. Among them, 174 students and 2 staff members showed symptoms such as watery diarrhea, abdominal pain, vomiting and ...

Nature of the Industry The motor vehicle is an intricate series of systems, subsystems, and components assembled into a final product. Each manufactured part or component is integrated into the vehicle; none is developed to exist separately. Vehicles are constantly changing as new technology or reengineered components are incorporated, and as new and updated models are designed in response to c...

The early 2020s have already fostered reckonings with the institutionalized legacies of colonialist practices. Conference presenters dutifully acknowledge land ownership to indigenous peoples. Social media users circulate abolitionist readings and lectures. Organizational personnel investigate diversity equity complaints. In these ways, progressives started grappling entrenched white supremacy,...

IT is an extraordinary honor to be here today to deliver the 48th Annual Rovenstine Lecture. I am reminded of the tremendous journey that anesthesiologists have traveled over the last half century: a journey that started when anesthesia was in its infancy, and patients died needlessly; a journey that required great vision and determination, that reduced preventable harm, and that made patient s...

We conducted a week-long summer camp to promote interest in computer science among middle-school students. The camp primarily used self-paced video tutorials to teach programming concepts using the App Inventor for Android programming environment. Based on strong interest from students and parents as well as positive survey feedback, we conclude that the camp was very successful. We have made t...