Ladder inclined angle is a critical factor that could lead to a slip at the base of portable straight ladders, a major cause of falls from heights. Despite several methods established to help workers achieve the recommended 75.5° angle for ladder set-up, it remains unclear if these methods are used in practice. This study explored ladder set-up behaviours in a field environment. Professional in...

To the Editor: Almost every report on circulating DNA identifies apoptosis or necrosis or both as the main source of free circulating DNA in serum and plasma. A hallmark of apoptosis is DNA degradation, in which chromo-somal DNA is 1st cleaved into large fragments (50 –300 kb) and subsequently into multiples of nucleoso-mal units (180 –200 bp) (1). This ladder pattern is also visible after elec...

In an extensive analysis, using a range of restriction endonucleases, HinfI and TaqI were found to differentiate satellites I, II and III & IV. Satellite I is resistant to digestion by TaqI, but is cleaved by HinfI to yield three major fragments of approximate size 770, 850 and 950bp, associated in a single length of DNA. The 770bp fragment contains recognition sites for a number of other enzym...

A ladder lottery, known as the “Amidakuji” in Japan, is a common way to choose an assignment randomly. Formally, a ladder lottery of a permutation π = (p1, p2, . . . , pn) is a network with n vertical lines (lines for short) and many horizontal lines (bars for short) as follows (see Fig. 1). The i-th line from the left is called line i. The top ends of the n lines correspond to π. The bottom en...

We designed a protein ladder (hereafter referred to as "Mega-tag") that contains 14 of the most commonly used epitope tags fused to molecular weight markers. The Mega-tag ladder can be simultaneously visualized when anti-tag antibodies are used to detect epitope-tagged recombinant proteins in Western blots. The logarithm of molecular weights and relative mobility of the Mega-tag protein ladder ...

After 20 years of a static clinical ladder program at our institution, the clinical ladder program was completely redesigned using a staff nurse-led shared governance structure to re-envision the program as an innovative, staff leadership model to meet our organizational nursing mission and vision strategic plans around retention and professional development. The literature demonstrated a lack ...

C = ladder network stage capacitance E = difference operator L = ladder network stage inductance ‘ = number of ladder network stages m = voltage measurement node n = ladder network node identifier, 0 n ‘ Rt = termination resistance s = Laplace variable V t = transmission line driving signal ~ Vn = Laplace transform of the voltage at any node n x = length of transmission line min = smallest wave...

Absrracr-The low sensitivity property of lossless discrete integrator (LDI) low-pass ladder filters is shown to be preserved in lossless discrete differentiator (LDD) high-pass ladder filters 111. The exact design method for LDI ladder filters given in [Z] is further developed by introducing a set of closed-form design formulas for digital ah-pole Chebyshev transfer functions. A new technique f...