Th e roles of regional universities should not be underestimated in terms of their infl uence (economic, political, social and cultural) within the regions. Th is paper examines one regional university and uses that institution as an example to illustrate both the infl uence of the university on the region and the impact the regional university has been able to exert on educational policy and p...

Governments often use multiple policy instruments for pursuing policy goals with mutually reinforcing eff ects. Th ese eff ects include supplementation and substitution. Th is article examines both eff ects by studying two instruments of state budget stabilization policy: general fund balances and budget stabilization funds. States normally maintain budget surpluses in the general fund. In rece...

Non-native salmonids are often introduced into areas containing species of concern, yet a comprehensive overview of the shortand long-term consequences of these introductions is lacking in the Great Plains. Several authors have suggested that non-native salmonids negatively influence species of concern. The objective of this paper is to review known interactions between non-native salmonids and...

While tailoring a garment or a technical textile, relaxation processes of a knitted fabric after production have to be taken into account. Such dimensional changes can occur during a long time of dry relaxation, during wet relaxation, or during washing relaxation, the latter having the strongest infl uence on a fabric. Besides fabric construction and yarn material, the dimensions of a knitted f...

A. Smalcerz, R. Przyłucki Silesian Technical University, Department of Metallurgy, Katowice, Poland The paper presents an analysis of the infl uence of the industrial r obot located nearby an induc tion heater on the electromagnetic fi eld distribution. The experiment consisted of numerical analy sis and measurement verifi cation. The analysis of the electromagnetic fi eld distribution was cond...

The vernacular of Vratnica and that Skopska Crna Gora have distinctive syntactic features defined by their being partly a continuation the Western Macedonian dialect group, dialects Prizren Juzna Morava within Serbian continuum. This is confirmed our comparison instances found in villages Klokot Binac, region Vitina, as well restricted number from Sirinicka Zupa Presevo. In this paper we analyz...

Sao Paulo Med J. 2007;125(4):215-9. O R IG IN A L A R T IC L E Karla Luciana Magnani Antônio José Maria Cataneo Respiratory muscle strength in obese individuals and infl uence of upper-body fat distribution Department of Surgery, Faculdade de Medicina de Botucatu (FMB), Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp), Botucatu, São Paulo, Brazil CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVE: Pulmonary dysfunction in obese indi...

association between serum soluble CD40 ligand (sCD40L) levels and mortality in patients with sepsis. Some variables that can infl uence outcome in sepsis were accounted for in their analysis. However, the amount of transfused blood products, which may infl uence levels of sCD40L, was not reported. sCD40L accumulates to biologically relevant levels during storage of blood products [2,3], in part...

The term discourse theory encompasses a diverse set of insights, assumptions, and concepts that have emerged across a range of disciplines in recent decades. Discourse theory generally derives from the “ linguistic turn ” in the humanities and social sciences that traces back to the work of infl uential fi gures such as Ferdinand de Saussure, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Michel Foucault (Rorty, 199...

Climate change and the loss of ecologically relevant large terrestrial carnivore populations are two important challenges currently facing conservation practitioners (Ray et al. 2005, Sutherland et al. 2009). Little attention is given, however, to how these two problems might be related, and how mitigation eff orts for each might be united. Here we explain how predators cannot only infl uence t...