Due to feedback from students, student abuse during fieldwork, was brought to the attention of the researchers. The study aimed to determine whether a need for a non-abusive intervention programme (NIP) existed amongst the School of Health Care Science students at the University of Pretoria. All students enrolled at the School of Health Care Sciences completed a questionnaire. An overwhelming r...

Abstract The process of applying sand particles to increase the traction between wheel and rail is reported be less than 20% efficient. To better understand entrainment efficiency, simulated using Discrete Element Method. simulation results are validated against full-scale experimental observations in terms efficiency particle velocity for ten case studies with different positioning nozzle. num...

In six healthy volunteers, integrated evoked electromyography (IEEMG) measured in response to ulnar nerve stimulation was correlated with respiratory function-tidal volume (VT), forced vital capacity (FVC), forced expiratory volume in one second (FEV1), maximum negative inspiratory pressure (NIP), hand grip (HG) and head-lift during steady-state infusion of subparalytic doses of atracurium. Stu...

This work concerns the simulation of compressible multi-material fluid flows and follows the method FVCF-NIP described in the former paper [5]. This Cell-centered Finite Volume method is totally Eulerian since the mesh is not moving and a sharp interface, separating two materials, evolves through the grid. A sliding boundary condition is enforced at the interface and mass, momentum and total en...

BACKGROUND Plant responses to phytohormone stimuli are the most important biological features for plants to survive in a complex environment. Cytokinin regulates growth and nutrient homeostasis, such as the phosphate (Pi) starvation response and Pi uptake in plants. However, the mechanisms underlying how cytokinin participates in Pi uptake and Pi signaling are largely unknown. In this study, we...

Prenatal alcohol exposure (PAE) increases the risk for The Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) in human infants. In rat pups, the arousal response to hypoxia is modulated by medullary raphe GABAergic mechanisms. We hypothesized that arousal to hypoxia is impaired by PAE, and is associated with an increase in medullary GABA and enhanced GABAergic activity. Pregnant dams received an ethanol liqui...

Se buscó adaptar al contexto argentino dos escalas que evalúan preferencias psicoterapéuticas: el Inventario de Preferencias Cooper-Norcross (C-NIP-v1.1) y Cuestionario Experiencias Psicoterapia para Paciente (PEX-1). Ambas fueron administradas a N=600 personas (muestra no probabilística). realizaron análisis consistencia interna, dimensionales, sobre los ítems. Los coeficientes interna adecuad...

We discuss some new approaches to preference aggregation, keeping the natural property of transitivity of strict preferences in mind. In a previous paper, we discussed various ways in which to construct and process strict partial order relations in the context of ranking objects on the basis of multiple criteria. We now broaden the scope to include more general expressions of preferences as inp...

The drivers of variable disease risk in complex multi-host disease systems have proved very difficult to identify. Here we test a model that explains the entomological risk of Lyme disease (LD) in terms of host community composition. The model was parameterized in a continuous forest tract at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies (formerly the Institute of Ecosystem Studies) in New York State...

As an ancient segmental tetraploid, the maize (Zea mays L.) genome contains large numbers of paralogs that are expected to have diverged by a minimum of 10% over time. Nearly identical paralogs (NIPs) are defined as paralogous genes that exhibit > or = 98% identity. Sequence analyses of the "gene space" of the maize inbred line B73 genome, coupled with wet lab validation, have revealed that, co...