1 The author would like to thank Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies for their generous support in the production of this paper, as well as the team at the Micro-Finance Regulatory Council for their time and generosity with respect to the provision of the data. All views expressed in the document are those of the author exclusively, and any errors committed remain the sole responsibility of ...

The dynamics of learning in the Active Avoidance test was analyzed at the trials level as well as at the level of daily sessions, each comprising numerous trials. The two scales (large scale for the sessions and small scale for the trials) were demonstrated to be mutually independent. The intermediate derived scales (blocks of trials) were found consistent among themselves and with small scale ...

The attitude of the medical practitioner to pliysiolog} is necessarily utilitarian and his familiarity with the various branches of the subject varies with their usefulness, not, as a cynic would suggest, with their simplicity. It is not surprising, therefore, that electrophysiology, though attracting great academic attention, is the least familiar of laboratory studies, for until recently the ...

"I feel very strongly that only in a magazine of the quality of IEEE Micro, where we as writers are unencumbered by stylistic manifestos and ludicrous length constraints, is [it] possible to write the quality of articles that I am interested in writing . . .I feel that it is due to your efforts that this environment exists. l am also thankful to Joe Schallan and his group for doing an outstandi...

The author and Dr. Masayuki Nakao have been collaborating with clinicians from collegiate hospitals to develop a series of small three-dimensional structures to meet their special needs. So far, we have: (1) Produced microchips for immunologic tests with 10 micron wide reaction grooves. The microchips reduced the testing time down to a hundredth of that of conventional tests. (2) Developed a me...

A novel process based on the principle of layered photolithography has been proposed and tested for making three-dimensional micro-structures. An experimental setup was designed and built for doing experiments on this micro-fabrication process. An ultraviolet (UV) excimer laser at the wavelength of 248 nm was used as the light source and a single piece of photo-mask carrying a series of two dim...

background and aims. with availability of hydrophilic sealers, drying of the canals before endodontic obturation is still a matter of debate. the aim of this study was to compare the apical micro-leakage of ah26, excite dsc, mta fillapex, and zoe sealers in dry and moist root canals. materials and methods. this experimental study was performed on 90 extracted maxillary central incisors. rotary ...