Strict Product Liability - Blood as an Unavoidably Unsafe Product; Cunningham v. MacNeal Memorial Hospital

In conclusion, this writer respectfully disagrees with the application of Section 402A to blood cases (assuming our present facts) and believes that blood should properly be considered an unavoidably unsafe product. Professor James agrees with this position when the defect or possibility of injury from an unavoidably unsafe product, could not be detected prior to use of the product and occurrence of the injury. This point is strengthened, he continues, when the product is socially desirable to put it out in spite of the inevitable risk. In other words, the decision in Cunningham could be sound only if the court meant to make the defendant hospital reply to plaintiff\u27s action and escape liability by a showing of reasonable care by the blood supplier in selection of healthy donors and by the hospital in requiring such standards

Strict Product Liability - Blood as an Unavoidably Unsafe Product; Cunningham v. MacNeal Memorial Hospital

In conclusion, this writer respectfully disagrees with the application of Section 402A to blood cases (assuming our present facts) and believes that blood should properly be considered an unavoidably unsafe product. Professor James agrees with this position when the defect or possibility of injury from an unavoidably unsafe product, could not be detected prior to use of the product and occurrence of the injury. This point is strengthened, he continues, when the product is socially desirable to put it out in spite of the inevitable risk. In other words, the decision in Cunningham could be sound only if the court meant to make the defendant hospital reply to plaintiff\u27s action and escape liability by a showing of reasonable care by the blood supplier in selection of healthy donors and by the hospital in requiring such standards

Promising Practices: Supporting Transition of Youth Served by the Foster Care System

A continuation of the 1997 study funded by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, this collaborative effort with the National Resource Center for Youth Services presents findings of a study of approximately 100 independent living and transitional living programs. It identifies "promising practices" linked with positive outcomes for youth leaving foster care-and presents information drawn from interviews with program staff and participating youth

Animal production from tagasaste growing in deep sands in a 450 mm winter rainfall zone

In 1985, Martindale Pty Ltd, Sir James McCusker\u27s family company, signed a unique research contract with Professor David Lindsay of the University of Western Australia. The aim of the Martindale Research Project was to study ways of increasing farm productivity in the sheep-wheat zone of south-western Australia. A primary focus was the high cost of grain or hay used to fill the autumn feed gap in grazing systems. However, it was not clear how or if tagasaste might be economically used to replace the grain and/or hay traditionally fed by hand to sheep and cattle in autumn

Improving the competitiveness and marketability of locally-produced rice in Ghana

Irrigated rice has been grown over a number of decades in Ghana on state-sponsored government irrigation projects. Over the years these projects have received extensive state support, as the government has attempted, through various initiatives, to achieve food self-sufficiency. The emphasis on promoting domestic rice production was enhanced by the growing importance of rice in the diet of the urban population, combined with technical assistance provided by donors, such as the Chinese. In addition, the promotion of state-sponsored, input-intensive agriculture reflected the Ghanaian government's past adherence to socialist development models

Development and preliminary validation of the value clarity questionnaire in adults and adolescents

Engaging in behavior that is congruent with the qualities of character to which we aspire is the key behavioral outcome sought in several evidence-based psychotherapies (e.g., “valued action” within Acceptance and Commitment Therapy) and moral education (e.g., “character sought” within Neo-Aristotelian Character Education). However, we cannot deliberately engage in valued action without first thinking through the qualities of character to which we aspire. We therefore developed a novel measure of “value clarity” and established its construct validity. Across two adult samples and one adolescent sample, we established the following psychometric properties of the seven-item Value Clarity Questionnaire: factor structure, concurrent validity, discriminant validity, internal reliability, rest-retest reliability, predictive validity, and incremental criterion validity. Value clarity predicted multiple aspects of flourishing including engaged living, depression, behavioral activation, assertiveness, productiveness, and energy levels over and above known predictors. This measure will be especially useful for assessing the efficacy of values/moral clarification interventions

Synthesis and Characterization of Two Metallic Spin-Glass Phases of FeMo₄Ge₃

Polycrystalline samples of FeMo4Ge3 have been synthesized by the reduction of an oxide mixture at 1248 K and characterized by a combination of diffraction, muon spin relaxation (µ+SR), Mössbauer spectroscopy, magnetometry, transport, and heat-capacity measurements. The compound adopts a tetragonal W5Si3 structure (space group I4/mcm); the iron and molybdenum atoms are disordered over two crystallographic sites, 16k and either 4a or 4b. The synthesis conditions determine which fourfold site is selected; occupation of either leads to the presence of one-dimensional chains of transition metals in the structure. In both cases, the electrical resistivity below 200 K is ~175 µΩ cm. The dc magnetization rapidly rises below 35 K (Fe/Mo on 16k and 4b sites) or 16 K (16k and 4a sites), and a magnetization of 1µB or 0.8µB per Fe atom is observed in 4 T at 2 K. The ac susceptibility and the heat capacity both suggest that these are glasslike magnetic transitions, although the transition shows a more complex temperature dependence (with two maxima in χ ) when the 4b sites are partially occupied by iron. No long-range magnetic order is thought to be present at 5 K in either structural form; this has been proven by neutron diffraction and µ+SR for the case when Fe and Mo occupy the 16k and 4b sites

Sheep Updates 2003 - Wool

This session covers six papers from different authors:1.‘Pastures from space’ - an opportunity to increase the profitability of sheep production Richard Coole Farmer Kojonup W.A. Stephen Gherardi Chris Oldham Department of Agriculture Western Australia 2. K. Curtis Department of Agriculture WA J. Stanton Department of Agriculture WA and Curtin University 3. Is selection of ewe hogget replacement on measurement profitable? Johan Greeff Department of Agriculture of Western Australia 4. Optimising the nutrition/grazing management of ewe flocks Chris Oldham Mike Hyder Beth Paganoni Department of Agriculture of Western Australia Andrew Thompson Department of Primary Industries, Hamilton, Victoria Tom Plaisted Kazue Tanaka Department of Agriculture of Western Australia Mark Ferguson Darren Gordon Department of Primary Industries, Hamilton, Victoria 5. How do we produce wool for next-to-skin wear? Andrew Peterson Department of Agriculture Western Australia 6. Measuring fibre contamination post farm gate Peter Sommerville Corporate Development Manager AWTA Lt

The role of oxygen radicals in immune complex injury

In this review we will summarize our current understanding of the mediation of immune complex induced tissue injury. Comparisons will be made between the mediation of IgG versus IgA immune complex injury with emphasis on the role that reactive oxygen products derived from leucocytic phagocytic cells play in the initiation of the tissue injury.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/27557/1/0000601.pd