Abstract. Gender affects all aspects of life, and the working learning environments science, technology, engineering geosciences present no exception. issues concerning access, permanence ascension women in exact sciences Earth careers general are related to a variety causes. The underrepresentation science communications, sexual or moral harassment caused by professors colleagues during underg...

Article history: Received 7 August 2014 Received in revised form 20 June 2015 Accepted 29 June 2015 Available online 9 July 2015 This study investigates whether a firm with strong corporate governance (CG) requires political connections (PCs), that is, we examine whether CG and PC substitute for or complement each other. Using 71,069 individual bank loan contracts from Taiwan, we examine how lo...

Although it is a fact that the operating theatre environment is contaminated by anaesthetic gases which are taken up by the body tissues of theatre personnel, and although for the past 10 years and more there have been investigations of the consequences for health, there is still no direct evidence that this contamination is a health hazard. However, there is much indirect and circumstantial ev...

Second edition. (Pp. xii + 422; figs. 68. 37s. 6d.). London: Butterworth. 1952. X'ills is described as "a handbook of pre-operative and post-operative treatment." House-surgeor4 and registrar-s will find it a useful companion in the wvards and in wvorking for the F.R.C.S. About one quarter of the book is devoted to the genieral principles of metabolism in relation to surgery, thrombo-embolism, ...

Downloaded: 30 May 2012 IP address: 148.88.176.155 In his excellent introductory essay, Mayer not only discusses the theatrical history, nature, and function of the plays, but also their ideological significance both in Britain and America. He sees them as a response to many of the cultural and social anxieties of the age: the crisis of religious faith, the rise of feminism, the emergence of cl...

In this paper, an application designed for use as a pedagogical resource in a distance education course is evaluated following the framework of dramatic theory for design of human-computer experiences, which is developed by Brenda Laurel based on Aristotelian aesthetics and includes concepts such as direct engagement, first-personness, mimesis and catharsis. This framework is then critically st...

To satisfy patients, fulfill demands of surgeons and operation theater staff and to proof a well-functioning operation theater an excellent management is needed. Operation theatre needs a great quantity of resources 4 to maintain a working function in any hospital . It’s always been a difficult and daring procedure, to improve the function and effectiveness of an operation theater in such a hos...