Designer’s toolkit is rapidly changing and design practices need a shared vision of what the short, medium and long term might be. With this in mind we interviewed twenty-four thought leaders in the design community worldwide. Four big ideas emerged from the interviews: transferring technologies from other industries has provided great benefits, but it has also generated the need to transfer pr...

This paper announces the availability of the first international standard for anti-double-stranded DNA (anti-dsDNA). The material, coded Wo/80, was obtained after recalcification of plasma taken from a patient with systemic lupus erythematosus. Vials were filled with 500 microliters serum and freeze dried. The serum contains no other autoantibodies in measurable quantities. The vials should be ...

The Australian Bone Marrow Donor Registry (ABMDR) is a publicly funded company that is part of an international network that facilitates unrelated bone marrow transplantation. This role means that the ABMDR has access to a large biospecimen repository therefore making it a highly valuable research resource. Recognising the potential value of these biospecimens for research purposes, the ABMDR i...

Two continuous gas assessment units (AUs) are present in the Late Triassic (Carnian) onshore rift basins of North Carolina and south-central Virginia. The source rocks are freshwater lacustrine shales that were deposited near the paleo-equator after the onset of Pangea rifting. These two rift basins, the Deep River basin wholly contained within North Carolina’s border, and the Dan River-Danvill...

Saudi Arabia (officially, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia) was established as a sovereign country in 1932, by its founder King Abdulaziz Al-Saud who led a successful campaign that lasted 30 years following the conquest of Riyadh (official capital) to unite large swathes of the Arabian Peninsula. With an area of 2,150,000 km, Saudi Arabia occupies 80% of historical Arabia and is the 13th largest country...

The Australian Twin Registry (ATR) is a national volunteer resource of twin pairs and higher-order multiples willing to consider participating in health, medical, and scientific research. The vision of the ATR is 'to realize the full potential of research involving twins to improve the health and well-being of all Australians'. The ATR has been funded continuously by the National Health and Med...

Pursuit for healthy offspring has been mentioned as one of the feats human life. Several neuropsychiatric conditions associated with children are recorded every year which being Cognitive deficit. There is no direct correlation deficit in Ayurveda but it can be correlated Jadatwa, Jada or Jadyata on basis similarity symptoms. Having cure such mental they only effectively managed by utilizing he...

This study is to determine the influence of gender on Adversity Quotient inmates in Delta State. One research question and corresponding hypothesis guided study. The design was a descriptive design. A sample 525 drawn from population 7,348 all custodian centres researchers adopted purposive non-proportionate stratified simple random sampling techniques for size determination. instrument titled ...

In delay tolerant networks, custody transfer can provide certain degree of reliability as a custodian node cannot discard a message unless its life time expires or the custody is transferred to another node after a commitment. This creates a challenging decision making problem at a node in determining whether to accept a custody transfer: on one hand, it is beneficial to accept a large number o...