Integration of CSAB and ABET

The Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, Inc. (ABET) and the Computing Sciences Accreditation Board (CSAB) signed a Memorandum of Agreement in November 1998 to integrate CSAB\u27\u27s accreditation services with ABET, with a transition time of approximately two years. During the interim period, the operations of the Computer Science Accreditation Commission (CSAC) are contracted by CSAB to ABET. A committee with CSAC, CSAB, and ABET representation is working to set up the new commission for accrediting programs in the computing sciences. This new commission will probably be called the Computing Accreditation Commission (CAC). Other activities are underway to try to assure that this integration goes as smoothly as possible. This paper discusses from various points of view the current status of the integration and plans for the completion of the integration

A prospective study on delayed presenting CTEV cases managed by Joshi’s external stabilisation system

BACKGROUND: club foot and its management have been the topic of keen interest to the orthopaedics field ever since time immemorial and many techniques in the successful management of these have been advocated till date. This study discusses one such technique of management in children with the Jess fixator. AIM OF THE STUDY: To evaluate the role of Joshi’s external stabilization system in the management of neglected, resistant and relapsed CTEV, in the age group of 1-6 years. METHODS AND MATERIALS: Total 14 patients underwent JESS fixation surgery at Department of Orthopedics,GRH hospital, Madurai medical college, from october 2015 to September 2017. RESULTS: The clinical correction of the deformity was assessed using both clinical and radiological criterias and final assessment by functional rating system. CONCLUSION: By Controlled differential distraction using JESS apparatus, a painless. pliable, plantigrade. perfect sized and cosmetically acceptable foot has been obatained even in children 1 year to 6 years. Controlled differential distraction using JESS fixator has got a definite role in the management of relapsed, and neglected CTEV and it does not prevent the foot from being treated surgically at a later date if needed

Comparison of Crystal Structures of the Tetramethylammonium and Sodium Salts of 3-Nitrophenolate

The addition of either sodium hydroxide or tetramethylammonium hydroxide to 3-nitrophenol led to orange-red crystals of sodium 3-nitrophenolate dihydrate or a complex of 3-nitrophenol and tetramethylammonium 3-nitrophenolate. For the sodium salt, 11707 Mo-Kα reflections were measured at 150 K via Bruker SMART 1-K CCD diffractometer. For the tetramethylammonium salt, 12664 Mo-Kα reflections were measured at 173 K via Bruker SMART 2-K CCD diffractometer. The unit cell of the sodium salt has: a = 6.814(1) Å, b = 6.5437(8) Å, c = 18.206(4) Å, β = 94.46(3)°, V = 809.4(3) Å3, space group = P21/n. The unit cell of the tetramethylammonium salt has: a = 23.543(4) Å, b = 5.636(1) Å, c = 16.387(3) Å, β = 128.513(3)°, V = 1701.4(9) Å3, space group = C2/c. The bond lengths of the 3-nitrophenolate moiety were statistically the same in the two crystal structures, showing that it is not affected by the cation

MORPHOLOGICAL AND PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSES TO IRRADIANCE IN THE CAM EPIPHYTE TILLANDSIA USNEOIDES L. (BROMELIACEAE)

This is the publisher's version, also available electronically from: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/2474626Spanish moss (Tillandsia usneoides L.) was collected in situ in South Carolina from sunny and shady locations and grown in a greenhouse under high and low irradiance. Morphological characteristics, including leaf size, internode length, trichome size and density, and stomatal size and density, were similar among plants at the different irradiance levels. Chlorophyll (Chi) a/b ratios did not change with irradiance, but total Chi concentrations were higher in plants exposed to lower irradiances. In spite of these changes in pigment composition, similar levels of nocturnal acidification were found in field, but not greenhouse, plants at all irradiance levels. Thus, Spanish moss can respond physiologically, but not morphologically, to changes in environmental irradiance levels. This ability should prove beneficial to an epiphyte growing in microsites of widely varying irradiance

Adoption of Conservation-Tillage Practices in Cotton Production

Replaced with revised version of paper 10/23/07.conservation tillage, cotton, genetically modified seed, herbicide-resistant cotton, stacked-gene cotton, simultaneous logit model, single-equation logit model, technology adoption, Crop Production/Industries,

Precision Farming by Cotton Producers in Eleven Southern States: Results from the 2005 Southern Precision Farming Survey

Precision Farming by Cotton Producers in Eleven Southern States: Results from the 2005 Southern Precision Farming Surveycotton, precision farming, survey, Agribusiness, Farm Management, Production Economics, Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies,