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Specific selection of antigen-reactive lymphocytes into antigenically stimulated lymph nodes in sheep
A case study of process facility optimization using discrete event simulation and genetic algorithm
Optimization problems such as resource allocation, job-shop scheduling, equipment utilization and process scheduling occur in a broad range of processing industries. This paper presents modeling, simulation and optimization of a port facility such that effective operational management is obtained. A GA base approach has been integrated with the port system model to optimize its operation. A case study of bulk material port handling systems is considered
Exploring the Acceptability of Online Learning for Continuous Professional Development at Kenya Medical Training Colleges
Abstract: This study explores the acceptance of online learning (OL) for continuous professional development among lecturers at Kenya Medical Training College in 2009. The large and multi-campus College faces logistical and cost challenges in ensuring that its 700 lecturing staff have access to continuous professional development. Online learning potentially provides an effective and efficient solution to this problem. A questionnaire was administered to a sample of the lecturers to assess the perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use of online learning, taking into account lecturers’ experiences. Two focus group discussions were also held to assess the lecturers’ views on issues relating to OL. We find that there is a high level of acceptability of the idea of undertaking further training using OL as user attitudes towards web-based training were positive. The benefits of OL over face-to-face learning for clinical training and the accreditation of OL courses are issues of ongoing concern to lecturers. Successful and large scale adoption of OL course requires promotion of their benefits in addition to clarification of the accreditation of the available courses
Optical colours of AGN in the Extended Chandra Deep Field South: Obscured black holes in early type galaxies
We investigate the optical colours of X-ray sources from the Extended Chandra
Deep Field South (ECDFS) using photometry from the COMBO-17 survey, aiming to
explore AGN - galaxy feedback models. The X-ray sources populate both the
``blue'' and the ``red sequence'' on the colour-magnitude diagram. However,
sources in the ``red sequence'' appear systematically more obscured. HST
imaging from the GEMS survey demonstrates that the nucleus does not affect
significantly the observed colours, and therefore red sources are early-type
systems. In the context of AGN feedback models, this means that there is still
remaining material after the initial ``blowout''. We argue that this material
could not be only left-over from the original merger, but a secondary cold gas
supplier (such as minor interactions or self-gravitational instabilities) must
also assist.Comment: Submitted to A&
Application and interpretation of the yo-yo intermittent recovery test to the long-term physical development of girls association football players
Galois theory and Lubin-Tate cochains on classifying spaces
We consider brave new cochain extensions F(BG +,R) → F(EG +,R), where R is either a Lubin-Tate spectrum E n or the related 2-periodic Morava K-theory K n , and G is a finite group. When R is an Eilenberg-Mac Lane spectrum, in some good cases such an extension is a G-Galois extension in the sense of John Rognes, but not always faithful. We prove that for E n and K n these extensions are always faithful in the K n local category. However, for a cyclic p-group C p r, the cochain extension F(BC p r +,E n ) → F(EC p r +, E n ) is not a Galois extension because it ramifies. As a consequence, it follows that the E n -theory Eilenberg-Moore spectral sequence for G and BG does not always converge to its expected target
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