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Promotion of occupational therapy as a career: A survey of occupational therapy managers
A careers pack distributed to 184 occupational therapy managers in and around
London contained a questionnaire which gathered information about their role
in promoting occupational therapy as a career. Twenty-six managers responded
(14.1%) and considered that the College of Occupational Therapists had the
principal responsibility for promoting the profession. Three-quarters
considered that the careers pack was fairly effective and two-thirds were
willing to use it to promote the profession.
Although pleased to have received the pack, the managers had more
negative than positive comments about it. Managers may not appreciate their
influential position in recruitment to the profession and other stakeholders
should collaborate to support them in their pivotal rol
The Business Environment of 1995 as Seen by Wisconsin Business Executives
Like many states, particularly those in the so-called rust bucket of the industrial north, Wisconsin is concerned about its business climate. A number of different steps with the potential to make Wisconsin\u27s business environment more hospitable have been taken. For example, the state income tax has been reduced; the state has partially funded a business development organization, Forward Wisconsin, to attract new companies to the area; and a state-appointed panel, the Wisconsin Strategic Development Commission, has filed its recommendations concerning the actions that should be considered in revitalizing the region\u27s business community. This article provides another perspective. It reports upon the views held by a sample of Wisconsin business executives concerning the nature of the business environment in 1995. Specifically, this paper reports on the perceptions held by 24 executives (mostly vice presidents of planning or marketing) from Wisconsin corporations. Because vice-presidents of planning and marketing are most responsible for translating environmental trends into strategic actions, we believe their vision of the general business climate in 1995 will be of keen interest to those concerned about the future of Wisconsin\u27s economy
Full one-loop electroweak corrections to e+e- to 3 jets at linear colliders
We describe the impact of the full one-loop electroweak terms of O(alpha_s
alpha_EM^3) entering the electron-positron into three-jet cross-section from
sqrt(s)=M_Z to TeV scale energies. We include both factorisable and
non-factorisable virtual corrections and photon bremsstrahlung. Their
importance for the measurement of alpha_S from jet rates and shape variables is
explained qualitatively and illustrated quantitatively, also in presence of
b-tagging.Comment: 6 pages, to appear in the proceedings of the workshop "LC09 -- e+e-
Physics at the TeV scale and the Dark Matter Connection", 21-24 September
2009, Perugia (Italy). Minor corrections, references added
Quasiharmonic elastic constants corrected for deviatoric thermal stresses
The quasiharmonic approximation (QHA), in its simplest form also called the
statically constrained (SC) QHA, has been shown to be a straightforward method
to compute thermoelastic properties of crystals. Recently we showed that for
non-cubic solids SC-QHA calculations develop deviatoric thermal stresses at
high temperatures. Relaxation of these stresses leads to a series of
corrections to the free energy that may be taken to any desired order, up to
self-consistency. Here we show how to correct the elastic constants obtained
using the SC-QHA. We exemplify the procedure by correcting to first order the
elastic constants of MgSiO-perovskite and MgSiO-post-perovskite, the
major phases of the Earth's lower mantle. We show that this first order
correction is quite satisfactory for obtaining the aggregated elastic averages
of these minerals and their velocities in the lower mantle. This type of
correction is also shown to be applicable to experimental measurements of
elastic constants in situations where deviatoric stresses can develop, such as
in diamond anvil cells.Comment: 4 figures, 1 table, submitted to Phys. Rev. B, July 200
Maternal and familial correlates of anthropometric typologies in the nutrition transition of Colombia, 2000–2010
Q2Q1Objective: We aimed to assess the maternal and family determinants of four
anthropometric typologies at the household level in Colombia for the years 2000,
2005 and 2010.
Design: We classified children <5 years old according to height-for-age Z-score
(2) to assess stunting and overweight/obesity,
respectively; mothers were categorized according to BMI to assess underweight
(<18·5 kg/m2
) and overweight/obesity (≥25·0 kg/m2
). At the household level, we
established four final anthropometric typologies: normal, underweight, overweight and dual-burden households. Separate polytomous logistic regression
models for each of the surveyed years were developed to examine several
maternal and familial determinants of the different anthropometric typologies.
Setting: National and sub-regional (urban and rural) representative samples from
Colombia, South America.
Subjects: Drawing on data from three waves of Colombia’s Demographic and
Health Survey/Encuesta Nacional de Salud (DHS/ENDS), we examined individual
and household information from mothers (18–49 years) and their children (birth–
5 years).
Results: Higher parity was associated with an increased likelihood of overweight
and dual burden. Higher levels of maternal education were correlated with lower
prevalence of overweight, underweight and dual burden of malnutrition in all data
collection waves. In 2010, participation in nutrition programmes for children
<5 years, being an indigenous household, food purchase decisions by the mother
and food security classification were also associated with the four anthropometric
typologies.
Conclusions: Results suggest that maternal and family correlates of certain
anthropometric typologies at the household level may be used to better frame
policies aimed at improving social conditions and nutrition outcomes.Revista Internacional - Indexad
In vivo cranial bone strain and bite force in the agamid lizard Uromastyx geyri
In vivo bone strain data are the most direct evidence of deformation and strain regimes in the vertebrate cranium during feeding and can provide important insights into skull morphology. Strain data have been collected during feeding across a wide range of mammals; in contrast, in vivo cranial bone strain data have been collected from few sauropsid taxa. Here we present bone strain data recorded from the jugal of the herbivorous agamid lizard Uromastyx geyri along with simultaneously recorded bite force. Principal and shear strain magnitudes in Uromastyx geyri were lower than cranial bone strains recorded in Alligator mississippiensis, but higher than those reported from herbivorous mammals. Our results suggest that variations in principal strain orientations in the facial skeleton are largely due to differences in feeding behavior and bite location, whereas food type has little impact on strain orientations. Furthermore, mean principal strain orientations differ between male and female Uromastyx during feeding, potentially because of sexual dimorphism in skull morphology
Lesser auger beetle Heterobostrychus aequalis(Coleoptera: Bostrichidae) in Australia: absent or elusive?
The lesser auger beetle, Heterobostrychus aequalis (Waterhouse), is a serious pest of seasoned hardwood timber throughout the Oriental region and several areas beyond. Some early collection records of H. aequalis from Australia in the 1950s and 1960s indicated that the insect was present in northern Queensland, but no confirmed breeding population has been found in the past few decades suggesting either that it may have not established permanently or it is difficult to detect. The ambiguity about the breeding status of the pest in Australia has caused confusion for regulating authorities needing to respond to each new post-border detection. We examined records of H. aequalis in Australian insect collections and from intensive plant pest surveillance activities in Queensland and northern Australia over the past 48 years to resolve this confusion. Until very recently, available evidence suggested that H. aequalis was not established in Australia, despite multiple introductions and apparently suitable climate and hosts. Collection records of the pest are predominantly linked to intercepted items or are recorded as of unknown origin, and no established populations have been found during many years of targeted surveillance. However, a detection of H. aequalis in suburban Cairns, north Queensland, in late 2013 and two more in mid-2015 in the same general locality do not appear to be linked to any imported material, indicating that there is at least a tenuously established local population. Investigations are underway to confirm this, but the insect is not widely established in Australia and, if present, remains elusive. Our recommended response to any future detection of H. aequalis is to fumigate or destroy the infested material, conduct tracing enquiries and limit surveys to the immediate vicinity of the detection
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