The Method of Loci (MOL) is an ancient mnemonic strategy used to enhance serial recall. Traditionally, the MOL is carried out by imagining navigating a familiar environment and "placing" the to-be-remembered items in specific locations. For retrieval, the mnemonist re-imagines walking through the environment, "looking" for those items in order. Here we test a novel MOL method, where participant...

Eighty first-litter sows in a commercial piggery were assigned to two feeding treatments during a 26-day lactation. A commercial diet containing an estimated 15% crude protein (CP), 0.65% lysine and 12.5 MJ digestible energy (DE)/kg was offered to sows in the control group which consumed 3.04 kg/day. Sows in the treatment group were given a higher quality diet containing 16.4% CP, 0.83% lysine ...

OBJECTIVE To test the working hypotheses that after a brief (10 min) intervention, (a) young adults can volitionally reduce fall-related wrist impact forces, and (b) no difference in impact force would exist between intervention and control groups at 3-weeks or 3-months follow-up. BACKGROUND The wrist is the most commonly fractured site in the body at any age, most often as a result of impact...

On November 20, 2009, the Industrial Wind Action Group (IWAG) posted an editorial that, in part, lists a number of concerns about Berkeley Lab’s efforts to investigate the presence of residential property value impacts associated with U.S. wind power facilities. 1 That editorial follows from more-extensive review comments provided on September 11, 2009 by the Industrial Wind Action Group. 2 The...

The Australian DRG variant (Australian National DRGs from versions 1 to 3, and Australian Refined DRGs thereafter) compares favourably with other variants in use around the world. This view is supported by a variety of empirical studies (see for example Reid, Palmer & Aisbett 2000) and by experiences of its adoption by several health care systems. An example is its recent selection for use in G...

In 1902 Burnside [4] wrote "A still undecided point in the theory of discontinuous groups is whether the order of a group may be not finite while the order of every operation it contains is finite". This leads to the following problem, now called the Burnside problem: "If a group is finitely generated and of finite exponent, is it finite?" This is a very difficult question so a weaker form know...

Occupational diseases are a significant problem affecting public health. Safety training is an important method of preventing occupational illness. Training is increasingly being delivered by computer although theories of learning from computer-based multimedia have been tested almost entirely on college students. This study was designed to determine whether these theories might also be applied...

In a pair of recent articles, the author develops a general version of small cancellation theory applicable in higher dimensions ([5]), and then applies this theory to the Burnside groups of sufficiently large exponent ([6]). More specifically, these articles prove that the free Burnside groups of exponent n ≥ 1260 are infinite groups which have a decidable word problem. The structure of the fi...

Qualitative data collected in Thailand through a series of 26 focus groups held separately with elderly individuals and adults with elderly parents provides insights into Thai views on a variety of issues related to the living arrangements of the elderly. These include the benefits and problems associated with coresidence, the choice of the coresident caregiver, mechanisms encouraging co-reside...