Some occupational health and safety hazards associated with sheep shearing are related to shearing shed design. One aspect is the floor of the catching pen, from which sheep are caught and dragged to the shearing workstation. Floors can be constructed from various materials, and may be level or gently sloping. An experiment was conducted using eight experienced shearers as participants to measu...

All actions, even the simplest like moving an arm to grasp a pen, are associated with energy costs. Thus all mobile organisms possess the ability to evaluate resources and select those behaviors that are most likely to lead to the greatest accrual of valuable items (reward) in the near or, especially in the case of humans, distant future. The evaluation process is performed at all possible stag...

Let F be a polynomial endomorphism of C which extends holomorphically to CP. We prove that the dimension of μF , the pluriharmonic measure on the boundary of the filled Julia set of F , is bounded above by 2n− 1.

OBJECTIVES To present some of the recent best papers in the field of health and clinical management. METHODS Synopsis of the best articles selected for the IMIA Yearbook 2011. RESULTS Of the five selected articles, some confirm the benefits of processing standardized data, others demonstrate the value of adapting the healthcare environment with new technological devices to improve patient s...

the aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of chlorhexidine (chx) application on immediate and two-month bond strength of a filled adhesive system. methods: forty eight non-carious human third molars without enamel of occlusal surface were randomly divided into two main groups according to chx application: control and chx. each main group was further subdivided into 2 subgroups depending ...

This document presents a streamlined approach to modeling filled pause distribution in spontaneous speech and populating a large clean corpus, making use of only the SRILM toolkit and a small training set. Although used for filled pause modeling, it can be fairly general and may be used to model other types of disfluencies, punctuation or sentence boundaries, with a minimal set of changes.

Extending the results in (B.M.) on one dimensional interacting fermions in a periodic potential we study the infrared behaviour of the two points Schwinger function in the lled band case. If the fermions are spinless such behaviour is completely determined and it depends on the ratio between the amplitude of the gap and the strength of the interaction. If the ratio is large the Schwinger functi...