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Societies in Ireland are at a turning point. The fast and furious economically driven building trade of the past 20 odd years has eventually calmed down. Now we (by ‘we’ I mean people, not just architects) can now move away from building on demand and come up with new methods and motivations for building. While the building boom has meant that some people benefited financially, many people would argue that it has resulted in a regression of society and its values. Going forward we have the opportunity to slow down, look at individuals, how they work as a collective, and come up with ways that the built environment can improve the way that we live. Through the collaboration of people from various backgrounds, professions and with various ideas, we can encourage co-operation so that people within a community can flourish while also allowing the community as a whole to progress. The architect can no longer be seen as the person who dictates how people should live or inhabit a space. Instead the architect should become the coordinator or the gatherer of the ideas that are put forward or proposed by the people who know best what is needed, - the end users. Not only is there a need to change the way that we build but also the way that we, as a society, think and solve problems. Now more than ever we need new, creative thinkers George Land in his book ‘Breakpoint and Beyond’ George land concluded that non-creative behaviour is learned. He came to this conclusion from a test that he developed for NASA. The test was used to select innovative or creative engineers and scientists. In 1968 he gave the test to 1,600 5 year old and 98% of them registered at genius level. He retested the same children aged 10 and 15. At 10 years old 30% of the children registered at genius level and by 15 the number was down to 12%. The same test was given to 280,000 adults and their genius level creativity was placed at 2%! People are naturally creative we just have to give them the freedom to create. In today’s society people are pushed towards deductive and convergent way of thinking and away from divergent thought processes. This was appropriate in an industrial age, however that age has passed. We are now in an age where less and less people can fall into a career based on their qualifications. More and more companies are looking for people who can collaborate and push beyond what their job description or parchment says they can do

A transition for all: equity and community engagement in the transition of water supply management to utilities in refugee settlements in Uganda

This record includes an extended abstract and MP4 presentation. Presented at the 42nd WEDC International Conference

Analysis of pulse rate variability derived from photoplethysmography with the combination of lagged Poincare plots and spectral characteristics

A combination of lagged Poincaré plots and spectral characteristics were used to investigate the effect of cigarette smoking on the autonomic nervous system (ANS). Heart rate variability (HRV) was determined from pulse-to-pulse intervals (PPI) of ear photoplethysmography (PPG) waveforms. Spectral power analysis of the pulse rate variability (PRV)was performed to determine lowfrequency (LF) and high frequency (HF) components, and a lagged Poincaré plot was introduced to evaluate the nonlinear characteristics of PRV. The correlations between lagged Poincaré plot and spectral power indices were studied in a group of apparently healthy habitual cigarette smokers and compared to non-smokers. The width (SD1m) and the length (SD2m) of lagged Poincaré plots significantly shrunk in the smokers for all lags (p < 0.05) except SD14 and SD15. The results of this pilot study indicated that habitual smoking is associated with parasympathetic withdrawal and augments sympathetic nerve activity. The results also demonstrated that the combination of lagged Poincaré plots and spectral characteristics could show promise as a method for distinguishing between different cardiovascular disease groups

Additional file 1: Table S1. of Timing of commencement of maintenance dialysis and mortality in young and older adults in Singapore

Adjusted hazard ratios (HR) associated with eGFR at initial dialysis with further adjustment for BMI and serum calcium based on multiply imputed data. Table S2. ƗAdjusted hazard ratios (HR) associated with eGFR at initial dialysis stratified by age groups based on multiply imputed data. Table S3. Comparison of baseline characteristics and death between patients included and excluded from the final model. (DOC 126 kb

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原著和名: [記載なし]科名: イネ科 = Gramineae採集地: 長野県 小県郡 真田町 菅平 (信濃 菅平)採集日: 1967/8/15採集者: 萩庭丈壽整理番号: JH038265国立科学博物館整理番号: TNS-VS-98826

Additional file 4: of Management of hypertension and multiple risk factors to enhance cardiovascular health in Singapore: The SingHypertension cluster randomized trial

Telephone follow-up checklist. (DOCX 30 kb

Additional file 2: of Management of hypertension and multiple risk factors to enhance cardiovascular health in Singapore: The SingHypertension cluster randomized trial

Treatment algorithm. (PDF 121 kb

Additional file 1: of Management of hypertension and multiple risk factors to enhance cardiovascular health in Singapore: The SingHypertension cluster randomized trial

SPIRIT checklist. (DOC 123 kb

Additional file 3: of Management of hypertension and multiple risk factors to enhance cardiovascular health in Singapore: The SingHypertension cluster randomized trial

Physician management checklist. (DOCX 20 kb