Though first published almost one century ago, and though its premise has been disputed, Clive Bell's essay on aesthetics in his book Art still provides fertile ground for discussing problems in aesthetics, especially as they relate to neuroesthetics. In this essay, I begin with a brief account of Bell's ideas on aesthetics, and describe how they focus on problems of importance to neuroesthetic...

A significant body of literature suggests that enterprises in the public education sector may differ from ‘standard production’ market firms in important ways. Substantial government involvement is then legitimized. However, this literature often uses within-sector comparisons of school types, rather than cross-sector comparisons of the education sector with other sectors. This paper compares t...

This paper reviews the research evidence on vouchers and considers the factors that make education vouchers a “live issue” in US education policy. These factors can be articulated in terms of Levin’s (2000a) notions of freedom of choice, productive efficiency, equity and social cohesion. It is possible to construct a reasonable case for voucher reform based on economic principles, triangulated ...

Based in the center of nursing activity, the nurse call system has potential to gather basic data such as the number of calls and the response time. Analyzing this information may shed light on performance and patient satisfaction. This study used a correlational design to examine results from a patient satisfaction survey administered at discharge in relation to the number of call bell request...

In view of the problem that there is only one typical Bell basis for QT (Quantum Teleportation), three new GBBs (Generalized Bell Bases) are obtained by transforming unitarily the Hadamard gates with the methods of Pauli gates in the quantum circuit of the traditional Bell basis, and four Bell bases have an identical general formula. Three controlled-QT schemes are proposed based on these GBBs....

AIM To explore and compare call bell response times in two wards in a geriatric evaluation and management facility before and after the introduction of a suite of interventions aimed at decreasing patient falls. METHOD Data on call bell response times were collected over two periods. The first were before implementation of falls prevention initiatives. Data were retrieved from the call bell s...

In the paper, the author (1) presents an explicit formula and its inversion formula for higher order derivatives of generating functions of the Bell polynomials, with the help of the Faà di Bruno formula, properties of the Bell polynomials of the second kind, and the inversion theorem for the Stirling numbers of the first and second kinds; (2) recovers an explicit formula and its inversion form...

Christopher Martin Leslie Ball Jacqueline Archibald Lloyd Carson School of Computing & Engineering Systems School of Computing & Engineering Systems School of Computing & Engineering Systems School of Social & Health Sciences University of Abertay, Bell Street, Dundee University of Abertay, Bell Street, Dundee University of Abertay, Bell Street, Dundee University of Abertay, Bell Street, Dundee...

We establish an extension of Spivey’s Bell number formula and its associated Bell polynomial extension by using Hsu-Shiue’s generalized Stirling numbers. By means of the extension of Spivey’s Bell number formula we also extend Gould-Quaintance’s new Bell number formulas.