The hemlock woolly adelgid (HWA), Adelges tsugae Annand, primarily infests trees along the eastern seaboard in USDA plant hardiness zones where the minimum low temperature does not exceed –28.8°C. Laboratory studies were done to determine the low lethal temperature of HWA collected in January, February, and March from locations within different USDA plant hardiness zones. The Mt. Tom, Massachus...

Bone Joint J 2016;98-B(1 Suppl A):68–72. The custom triflange is a patient-specific implant for the treatment of severe bone loss in revision total hip arthroplasty (THA). Through a process of three-dimensional modelling and prototyping, a hydroxyapatite-coated component is created for acetabular reconstruction. There are seven level IV studies describing the clinical results of triflange compo...

Dynamic epistemic logic describes the possible information-changing actions available to individual agents, and their knowledge preand post conditions. For example, public announcement logic describes actions in the form of public, truthful announcements. However, little research so far has considered describing and analysing rational choice between such actions, i.e., predicting what rational ...

Dynamic epistemic logics describe the epistemic consequences of actions. Public announcement logic, in particular, describe the consequences of public announcements. As such, these logics are descriptive – they describe what agents can do. In this paper we discuss what rational agents will or should do. We consider situations where each agent has a goal, a typically epistemic formula he or she ...

BACKGROUND Medical Savings Accounts are an attempt to reduce health care costs by transferring responsibility for expenditures to patients, while providing them with state-supported base amounts to cover some of the costs. We wondered whether such a system would actually be effective, given the fact that medical care expenditures (and illness) are unequally distributed across the population. ...

Inevitably, reading is one of the requirements to be undergone. To improve the performance and quality, someone needs to have something new every day. It will suggest you to have more inspirations, then. However, the needs of inspirations will make you searching for some sources. Even from the other people experience, internet, and many books. Books and internet are the recommended media to hel...

Twelve of the 14 English regions have now appointed a general manager: a nurse, two treasurers, a medical administrator, and eight administrators. The next step in the process is to appoint district general managers. Many districts jumped the gunthey probably did not realise that there was going to be a formal start-and have interviewed and designated (some privately) their general manager. The...

Over the last years, several repositories have been proposed in response to the need of the MDE community for advanced systems supporting the reuse of modeling artifacts, and the adoption of model management tools as software-as-service. Even though the potential benefits of MDE repositories are valuable, researchers and practitioners seem to prefer the management of their modeling artifacts lo...

When Annie Stunden came to the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1999 as CIO, she had a vision of providing all students, faculty, and staff their own Web sites where they could store and share documents and files, a place where they could easily and intuitively collaborate with each other. Before joining UW–Madison, Stunden had been CIO at Cornell University, where her team implemented a syst...