Aim: The aim of the study was to assess the success and efficiency of the training practices for acquisition of basic personal hygiene skills and behavior of hand washing and soiling in a relatively heterogeneous group of individuals receiving care from a drop-in day care/special education service. We also analyzed etiologies of the causes of discrepancies in learning behavior implying a need f...

Rectal methohexitone (25 mg X kg-1) was used to induce anaesthesia in 15 unpremedicated children scheduled to undergo bilateral myringotomies as outpatients. Induction time ranged from 4 to 11 minutes. In the recovery room, all children received a slow intravenous injection of physostigmine (60 micrograms X kg-1), or saline in a double blind randomized fashion. The use of physostigmine did not ...

The problem of accurate determination of the position, orientation and width of involute spur gear teeth using a single front-lit image is addressed. The information is used to compute global measures of tooth concentricity and pitch variations across a gear wheel. The approach is based on the use of specialised filters which make maximum use of the grey level information available in the image...

The possible enhancement of the output from a partially shaded PV array by the use of AC modules has been determined for the PV facade at the University of Northumbria. The system currently has an annual shading loss of about 25% and the study has shown that the use of AC modules would increase the output by approximately 8%. The calculation method is described, and the implications for the des...

opening through which faecal matter began to pour out. The boy's general health was fairly good and he was passing feces both through the anus and the scrotal fistula. The fistula was a source of constant trouble, as the foul smelling faeces kept on coming in small quantities through it, soiling his clothes and legs. The fistula 1" long and V' broad was situated at the front and lower part of t...