The Notre Dame basketball team was greeted by the ch ill o f the arctic and the warm th o f jub ilan t fans as they stepped o ff the bus at the Notre Dame main c irc le at 2:50 this m or­ ning. Follow ing yesterday afternoon’s away game against UCLA, a student manager made contact w ith Student Body President Rob Bertino w ho qu ick ly coordinated the welcom ing o f the team. Bertino phoned all...

Dagmar Waltemath, Richard Adams, Daniel A. Beard, Frank T. Bergmann, Upinder S. Bhalla, Randall Britten, Vijayalakshmi Chelliah, Michael T. Cooling, Jonathan Cooper, Edmund J. Crampin, Alan Garny, Stefan Hoops, Michael Hucka, Peter Hunter, Edda Klipp, Camille Laibe, Andrew K. Miller, Ion Moraru, David Nickerson, Poul Nielsen, Macha Nikolski, Sven Sahle, Herbert M. Sauro, Henning Schmidt, Jacky ...

the aim of this paper is to generalize the‎‎notion of pseudo-almost valuation domains to arbitrary‎ ‎commutative rings‎. ‎it is shown that the classes of chained rings‎ ‎and pseudo-valuation rings are properly contained in the class of‎ ‎pseudo-almost valuation rings; also the class of pseudo-almost‎ ‎valuation rings is properly contained in the class of quasi-local‎ ‎rings with linearly ordere...

Spliced joints are used widely in retrofitting traditional timber structures, especially in heritage conservation applications where as much original material as possible needs to be retained. However, in practice this method is mainly applied based on experience, and there is a lack of understanding and quantification of the mechanical behaviour of retrofitted timber members. This paper presen...

©FSRH J Fam Plann Reprod Health Care 2008: 34(3) Background Nurses undertaking intrauterine device/intrauterine system (IUD/IUS) training have extra hoops to jump through. Trainer and trainee benefit from being aware of these and both can learn from the process. This article shares the personal experience of one trainer/trainee pair, both of whom enjoyed the experience and who wish to share the...

and Implications A small demonstration sow herd has been housed during breeding and gestation in a deep-bedded hoop structure. Conception rates, number of pigs born alive, and birth weights were excellent. These results indicate that hoops provide a realistic alternative for housing gestating sows. A discussion of the decision considerations related to animal environment, sow behavior, bedding ...

BACKGROUND Stent longitudinal distortion, while infrequent, can lead to adverse clinical events. Our first bench comparison of susceptibility of different stent designs to distortion applied force to the entire circumference of the proximal stent hoop. The test increased understanding of stent design and led to recommendations for design change in some. Our second-generation test more closely m...