Meniscus climbing using a fixed body posture has been well documented for various aquatic and neustonic insects, but is not known from small flying insects that inadvertently become trapped on water surfaces. Here, we show that thrips (order Thysanoptera) can ascend a meniscus by arching their non-wetting bodies to translate head-first and upward along a water surface; if initially oriented bac...

This paper identifies a mechanism for specific professional registration in order to sustain a holistic community fit to practice in informatics to support the health domain. It considers risks and opportunities that have an international resonance, and comments on the areas where multi-national activity could provide additional impetus to improvement of the quality of the profession of health ...

Title of dissertation: STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF AUTOMATIC SUMMARIZATION EVALUATION Peter A. Rankel, Doctor of Philosophy, 2016 Dissertation directed by: Professor Eric V. Slud Department of Mathematics Dr. John M. Conroy IDA/Center for Computing Sciences This dissertation applies statistical methods to the evaluation of automatic summarization using data from the Text Analysis Conferences in 200...

Considerable therapeutic advances for the treatment of vasculitis of the young have been made in the past 10 years, including the development of outcome measures that facilitate clinical trial design. Notably, these include: a recognition that some patients with Kawasaki Disease require corticosteroids as primary treatment combined with IVIG; implementation of rare disease trial design for poly...

This paper presents findings from ethnographic case study research that investigated teacher practices and student engagement in classroom music. The data collection was undertaken a primary (elementary) secondary school Australia focussed on the practice of two teachers four classes students aged 10 to 16 years. invited participate had been identified as being influenced by Musical Futures app...

Electronic voting systems are being introduced, and have been introduced, in many countries for a variety of reasons. The introduction of computers into the electoral process can offer several advantages. Among other things it can speed up the process of calculating results, can help voters avoid accidentally spoiling their vote, and can allow voters with special needs to vote in private. Often...

A head-mounted display provides continuous real-time imaging within the practitioner's visual field. We evaluated the feasibility of using head-mounted display technology to improve ergonomics in ultrasound-guided regional anesthesia in a simulated environment. Two anesthesiologists performed an equal number of ultrasound-guided popliteal-sciatic nerve blocks using the head-mounted display on a...

As demonstrated by the two preceding papers (Bedrosian, 1995; Higginbotham, 1995), the appropriate selection of subjects for conducting augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) research can be complex and, in many cases, unresolved. Our intention in presenting opposing views on the use of nondisabled individuals for AAC research was to highlight issues pertinent to subject selection. As...

The opportunity to enhance the reputation of local government is an emerging philosophy, primarily driven by the current egovernment agenda, to transform governments into efficient, effective, customer-centric and innovative organisations. It can be argued that those authorities that successfully embed this change will attract new business and employment, increase loyalty, pull in more tax reve...

T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T Abstract In this paper we continue an earlier study of ends non-compact manifolds. The over-arching goal is to investigate and obtain generalizations of Siebenmann's famous collaring theorem that may be applied to manifolds having non-stable fundamental group systems at infinity. In this paper we show that, for mani-folds with compact boundary, the condition of inw...