OBJECTIVES To determine the potential for a source of surplus antibiotics in the community to come from the mismatch between the recommended duration of antibiotic treatment for common indications in primary care and that dictated by default pharmaceutical industry packaging. METHODS Analysis of existing published information of: 1) the most common antibiotics prescribed in primary care in Au...

PURPOSE Brace compliance measurement in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) has been the subject of a few recent studies. Various sensors have been developed to measure compliance. We have developed a temperature-based data logger-the Cricket-specifically for scoliosis braces, with associated custom software, that is embedded directly in the brace. The purpose of this study was to analyze pat...

Prescribed burning is used as a management tool on national forests in the Southeastern United States to maintain oak (Quercus spp.) -dominated forest or woodland habitat. Few studies have examined response to burning at the stand, plot, and tree level. We documented red maple (Acer rubrum) response to dormant-season prescribed burns and the relationship with fire characteristics. At the stand ...

In this paper, we have considered the problem of rotating, magnetohydrodynamic heat and mass transfer by free convective flow past an exponentially accelerated isothermal vertical plate in the presence of variable mass diffusion. While the temperature of the plate is constant, the concentration at the plate is considered to be a linear function with respect to time t. The plate is assumed to be...

In a forward chemical equilibrium problem (FCEP), the state of minimum Gibbs energy for system is sought, in which temperature, pressure, elemental amounts, and thermodynamic model parameters are prescribed. We herein present mathematical framework characterizing solving inverse problems (ICEP), class one or more those prescribed conditions FCEP unknown advance. an ICEP, complementary must be i...

in this paper, we have considered the problem of rotating, magnetohydrodynamic heat and mass transfer by free convective flow past an exponentially accelerated isothermal vertical plate in the presence of variable mass diffusion. while the temperature of the plate is constant, the concentration at the plate is considered to be a linear function with respect to time t. the plate is assumed to be...

We examine the local dynamics of nonisothermal viscous ows in the neighborhood of the constant equilibria using the thermomechanically consistent constrained theory for materials with prescribed temperature-dependent density developed by Cao et al. (1996). We discover that the linearized growth rate of small length scale, innnitesimal disturbances near the equilibria is proportional to the reci...

A dynamical two dimensional problem of generalized thermoelasticity has been considered to examine the stresses in an isotropic elastic slab. Laplace transform for time variable and exponential Fourier transform for space variable has been applied in the basic equations to form a vector-matrix differential equation which is then solved by eigenvalue approach. Finally numerical computations of t...

A model of the equations of two dimensional problems in a half space, whose surface in free of micropolar thermoelastic medium possesses cubic symmetry as a result of a Mode-I Crack is studied. There acts an initial magnetic field parallel to the plane boundary of the half- space. The crack is subjected to prescribed temperature and stress distribution. The formulation in the context of the Lor...