Claw health, an important dairy cow welfare parameter, may be affected by early-life foot/leg stresses. To investigate this, groups of pregnant heifers were allocated to deep straw bedding (Soft) or cubicles (Hard), both with scraped concrete feeding alleys. After the grazing season, they were re-housed in cubicle systems, half on slatted concrete (Hard) and half on slatted rubber (Soft) alleys...

The nature of the price setting process directly a¤ects the form of the derived Phillips curve. This handout covers 2 models which have been quite in‡uential in the monetary policy literature. The …rst is the Rotemberg (1982, then 1996) model of price-setting subject to quadratic adjustment costs. The second model is the recent contribution of Mankiw and Reis (2002) which replaces sticky prices...

This paper presents an animation which simulates construction process by applying tower cranes to assemble shared steel forms in a site of six buildings. Only two sets of steel forms are provided. The animation is simulated based on the length of a cycle .and the number of cycles (a unit period of time) spent for sliding slabs down and moving cranes to next building's location. The first case s...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate an intervention to prevent falls at a hospital. DESIGN A quasi-experimental intervention with historical and contemporaneous control groups. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS Nursing staff and patients in the medicine service (comprising 2 intervention floors and 2 control floors) at an academic hospital. INTERVENTION Nursing staff were educated regarding fall prevention duri...

This paper explores the accuracy of Saleh-Valenzuela (SV) statistical simulation model in time of arrival domain (ToA) applied on inter-floor wide band indoor radio channels. In order to extract the model parameters, an extensive measurement campaign was performed inside a modern building by applying vector network analyzer method at frequency of 1.8 GHz. The measurement results are presented i...

The design and implementation of systems that combine both the utilities of the digital world as well as intrinsic affordances of traditional artifacts are challenging. In this paper, we present „Quickies‟, an attempt to bring one of the most useful inventions of the 20 century into the digital age: the ubiquitous sticky notes. „Quickies‟ enriches the experience of using stickynotes by linking ...

Non-sticky latex beads and sticky diatoms were used as models to describe mutual coagulation between sticky and non-sticky particles. In mixed suspensions of beads and Thalassiosira nordenskjoeldii, both types of particles coagulated into mixed aggregates at specific rates, from which the interspecific coagulation effic~ency could be calculated. Stickiness between beads and T nordenskjoeldii wa...

This paper estimates and compares four versions of the sticky price New Keynesian model for the Euro area, using a Bayesian approach as described in Rabanal and Rubio-Ramírez (2003). We find that the average duration of price contracts is between four and eight quarters, similar to the one estimated in the United States, while price indexation is found to be smaller. On the other hand, average ...

In this paper, we present „Quickies‟, an attempt to bring one of the most useful inventions of the 20 th century into the digital age: the ubiquitous sticky notes. Sticky notes help us manage our to-do lists, tag our objects and documents and capture short reminders or information that we may need in the near future. „Quickies‟ enrich the experience of using sticky notes by allowing them to be ...