Manufacturing and Design Engineering Students St. Mary\u27s Hospital, Phoenix Park.

Poster with details of project to improve ease of movement for Kirton Stirling chairs in St. Mary\u27s Hospital, Phoenix Park, Dublin. Third year students in the B Eng (Honours) Manufacturing and Design Engineering course at Bolton St. completed a project in conjunction with St. Mary‟s Hospital, Phoenix Park. The staff in St Mary‟s were experiencing difficulty in moving the Kirton Stirling chairs (pictured above). These chairs are used to transport elderly patients from one location to another. High levels of vibration were.experienced by patients using the chairs, while significant force by staff, was necessary to push the chairs across uneven ground.https://arrow.tudublin.ie/civpostbk/1040/thumbnail.jp

Effects of Active Sitting on Reading and Typing Task Productivity

International Journal of Exercise Science 12(5): 1216-1224, 2019. Increased sedentary behavior and reduced physical activity among children and adults has led to the advent of various active devices to combat these behaviors. Active sitting, consisting of modified chairs or stability balls, allows the body to stay dynamic while seated. While research has evaluated the health benefits of active sitting, minimal research has shown the effects of active sitting on productivity in adult populations. The purpose was to evaluate the effects of various chairs (active versus non-active) on typing and reading task productivity. Twenty adult participants performed typing and reading tasks for 10-minutes while sitting on each of the following: standard chair (SC), stability ball (SB), and active sitting chair (ST). Reading comprehension (RC), words per minute (WPM), accuracy, and errors were measured following each task. Additionally, perceived productivity was measured using a self-reported rating of difficulty scale (1-10). In terms of RC, there was no difference between the chairs (p = 0.16). However, perceived productivity was significantly greater on the SC as compared to SB (p \u3c 0.01) and ST (p \u3c 0.01). For the typing task, no differences were demonstrated for errors (p = 0.87) or accuracy (p = 0.91). However, WPM was significantly greater on SC (38.8 ± 10.5) compared to ST (35.9 ± 9.5) (p = 0.02). For perceived typing productivity, SC and SB demonstrated significantly greater values compared to ST (p \u3c 0.01). Results suggest that various types of active sitting may have a minimal negative effect on workplace performance and perceived productivity

History of Anthropology at Washington University, St. Louis, 1905-2012

This is a history of the development of anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis as researched and recorded by Professor David L. Browman. His research includes the development of anthropology as a department, profiles of faculty and other noteworthy individuals involved in anthropology at the university and in St. Louis, a list of department chairs and faculty affiliated with the department, and personal recollections.https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/books/1000/thumbnail.jp

Proceedings Work-In-Progress Session of the 13th Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium

The Work-In-Progress session of the 13th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS\u2707) presents papers describing contributions both to state of the art and state of the practice in the broad field of real-time and embedded systems. The 17 accepted papers were selected from 19 submissions. This proceedings is also available as Washington University in St. Louis Technical Report WUCSE-2007-17, at http://www.cse.seas.wustl.edu/Research/FileDownload.asp?733. Special thanks go to the General Chairs – Steve Goddard and Steve Liu and Program Chairs - Scott Brandt and Frank Mueller for their support and guidance

Dissent and the Future of the Church

Sidney Callahan has held visiting chairs of interdisciplinary studies and moral theology at Georgetown University and St. John\u27s University. This talk was presented at Sacred Heart University on September 29, 2004, as part of a year-long series of symposia on The Church and the Contemporary World, sponsored by the Center for Catholic Thought, Ethics, and Culture

Faculty

Elizabeth Long\u27s gift endows three new faculty chairs; ALICS: Celebrating ten years teaching U.S. law in Germany; faculty members open Portuguese window on lJ.S. law; The death of a friendly critic; Andrew S. Watson; St. Antoine heads U-M search for general counsel; Grateful Kennedys establish scholarship; Commercial Transactions keeps world of commerce in mind; Activities; New faculty; Hail! Hail! Hail

In Brief

Table of Contents: Masthead The Dean Reports Erik M. Jensen and Jonathan L. Entin, Commandeering, the Tenth Amendment, and the Federal Requisition Power Focus on St. Louis Our Latest Chaired Professor (Dent) Other Endowed Chairs New Faces (Claybaker and Milles) Visitors to the Law School Scenes from the 1997 Alumni Weekend Alumni Awards 1998 Alumni Directory Foreign LL.M. Students Reunion in Bangkok Faculty Notes AlumNotes Dean Kenneth B. Davis Class of 1997 Placement Report In Memoriam Alumni Board of Governors Law Alumni Association Two Corrections 1998 Alumni Weekendhttps://scholarlycommons.law.case.edu/in_brief/1069/thumbnail.jp

Rêver le nouveau monde

" This book accompanies Michel Goulet’s work Rêver le nouveau monde, given by the City of Montreal to the citizens of Quebec City to mark the 400th anniversary of the founding of the province’s capital. Goulet’s work consists of 40 “chair-poems” in stainless steel, on which appear excerpts from poems written by Quebec poets since 1608. Four chairs, ornamented with bronze depictions of a house, a globe and the St. Lawrence River, complete the work. This finely illustrated volume includes a text by the artist and an essay by Louise Déry. It was co-produced by the City of Montreal and the Galerie Simon Blais in collaboration with the Galerie de l’UQAM. " -- Publisher's website

Cultivating sacramentality through administrative work: Guidance from St. Benedict on being a Catholic department chair

One dilemma encountered by department chairs and administrators at Catholic colleges and universities is how to respect the pluralistic religious views of the faculty while being faithful to one\u27s own and the institution\u27s Catholic tradition. The Rule of St. Benedict offers guidance that can result in deepening the respect for all individuals by welcoming all as Christ, adapting to the temperament of the individual, and listening with the ear of one\u27s heart. Through these practices one may cultivate a sacramental vision of the world in oneself and within the academic culture of the department or institution, creating an environment in which all can feel valued

The non-isothermal spreading of a thin drop on a heated or cooled horizontal substrate

We revisit the spreading of a thin drop of incompressible Newtonian fluid on a uniformly heated or cooled smooth planar surface. The dynamics of the moving contact line are modelled by a Tanner Law relating the contact angle to the speed of the contact line. The present work builds on an earlier theoretical investigation by Ehrhard and Davis (JFM, 229,365{388 (1991)) who derived the non-linear partial differential equation governing the evolution of the drop. The (implicit) exact solution to the two-dimensional version of this equation in the limit of quasi-steady motion is obtained. Numerically calculated and asymptotic solutions are presented and compared. In particular, multiple solutions are found for a drop hanging beneath a suffciently cooled substrate. If time permits, some basic models for evaporative spreading will be considered