The Soar Development Environment (SDE) is an integrated environment for developing rule-based programs in the Soar language. It is designed to provide editing and debugging facilities, commands for creating skeleton source code for common constructs, facilities for locating the deenitions of task components, and other features. It emphasizes context-sensitive operation by maintaining informatio...

Snake bite remains a common injury in endemic areas of Pakistan. A facility based observational study was undertaken to ascertain the incidence of snake bite, its mortality and the management in public health facilities located in the Thar Desert of Province of Sindh, Pakistan. A total of 771 cases of snake bite were reported to seven randomly selected health facilities during a one-year period...

In today’s diverse human activities, hidden micro-organisms in indoor and outdoor environments are inescapable and impose dangerous health issues. In recent years, with the introduction of advanced technologies in houses, hospitals, industry, and other environments, the apprehension has increased. The interest in evaluating the level of microbial contamination in places at risk has increased an...

To support concurrent programming the MONADS-PC instruction set and operating system kernel provide facilities for process creation, synchronization and scheduling. These facilities are assimilated with the LEIBNIZ programming environment, appearing as module class denitions. They form a small and ecient set of primitives which, when utilized by the modular features of the LEIBNIZ programming l...

Most growing/finishing swine facilities have been operated on a continuous basis; that is, they always contain pigs of different ages and weight. Due to the fact that pigs are always present, it is impossible to thoroughly clean, disinfect, or fumigate the environment. It is generally assumed that the common air space shared by pigs of various age groups allows for both clinical and subclinical...

A typical computer algebra system (CAS) represents formulas by (what amounts to) trees. By approximating a more general function as a univariate polynomial, it can be represented as an array of coefficients. Another common representation is as a set of values of the function at specified points. In either case, one can compute in this realm of “functions” further by combining such arrays. By ta...

A study on the prevalence of common food borne pathogens (Salmonella, Staphylococcus and E. Coli) in chicken meat obtained from wet market in Bangalore under different processing conditions was carried out. Results revealed higher prevalence of Salmonella in the range of 25 to 65 per cent and the level of contamination of meat with Salmonella decreased with increase in sophistication of slaught...

This paper examines the usability of the hypertext navigation facilities provided byWorld Wide Web client applications. A notation is de ned to represent the user's navigational acts and the resultant system states. The notation is used to report potential, or `theoretical,' problems in the models of navigation supported by three web client applications. A usability study con rms that these pro...

We here present a review of the problem of controlling airborne disease transmission in animal research facilities, with emphasis on engineering design and air-treatment technologies. Dilution ventilation, pressurization control, source control, and air disinfection and removal systems are reviewed, and analytical studies on the effects of dilution ventilation, filtration, and ultraviolet germi...