A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Prevention of Infant Torticollis and Plagiocephaly

Research suggests that parents are more likely to carry out positioning recommendations from a health care professional than any other source. Occupational therapy practitioners can play an important role in educating parents, caregivers, and healthcare providers about the importance of providing tummy time and limiting infant time spent in baby gear

Empirical Studies of Evolving Systems

This paper describes the results of the working group investigating the issues of empirical studies for evolving systems. The groups found that there were many issues that were central to successful evolution and this concluded that this is a very important area within software engineering. Finally nine main areas were selected for consideration. For each of these areas the central issues were identified as well as success factors. In some cases success stories were also described and the critical factors accounting for the success analysed. In some cases it was later found that a number of areas were so tightly coupled that it was important to discuss them together

Automatic weed control system for processing tomatoes

WORLD CONGRESS OF THE INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION OF AGRICULTURAL AND BIOSYSTEMS ENGINEERING (17) (17.2010.QUEBEC CITY, CANADA)This study describes a fully automatic system developed at UC Davis for intra-row mechanical weed control for processing tomatoes in California. We developed a novel weed control system using a real-time kinematics (RTK) global positioning system (GPS) to automatically control the path of a pair of weed knives based upon an automatically generated GPS plant map. The system was capable of precisely guiding mechanical weed knives within the seedline of the crop row and around the crop plants as the system was pulled along the row. In this study, processing tomato plants were transplanted using a GPS-enabled transplanter, which developed a precision plant map documenting the geo-spatial location of each tomato plant. At the time of first cultivation, a few weeks after planting, the GPS-controlled weed knives were operated in seven tomato rows. The weed knives were set to "open" 6 cm prior to reaching, and "close" 6 cm after passing each tomato plant, killing weeds between tomato plants when the knives were in the closed position. Results show that the average distance between knife opening and closing events was 12.4 cm with a standard deviation of 1.4 cm. The standard deviation of the opening and closing positions (relative to the crop plant) was 2.08 and 2.11 cm, respectively. These results demonstrate the feasibility of using RTK-GPS to automatically control a mechanical weed control system for sustainable production of row crops

Development of an RTK GPS plant mapping system for transplanted vegetable crops.

This study investigated the feasibility of using real-time kinematics (RTK) GPS to automatically map the locations of tomato transplants in the field as they are planted using a vegetable crop transplanter retrofitted with an RTK GPS receiver, and an on board real-time controller. Two detection methods were evaluated for sensing plant location during planting. One method used an infrared light beam sensor to detect the stem location of each plant immediately after planting. The second method used an absolute shaft encoder mounted on the planting wheel to sense the location that each plant was placed in the soil. Odometry was used to determine the actual Easting and Northing GPS coordinates of each plant by interpolation from the original RTK GPS data stream. A field test was conducted to compare the accuracy of this transplant map with actual plant location. The average absolute differences between the automatically generated transplant map and the plant location determined by GPS survey was 0.8 to 2.1 cm in the Northing direction and 1.6 to 3.8 cm in the Easting direction, which was also the travel direction. Results suggest the feasibility of creating an accurate plant map using an RTK GPS equipped transplanter

Conformist innovation:An institutional logics perspective on how HR executives construct business school reputations

In this paper, we explore whether Legge’s classic 1970s criticism of human resource (HR) executives as ‘conformist innovators’ is still relevant. Drawing on institutional logics, we analyse HR managers’ rationales for choosing particular university business schools to provide senior executive development. Our mixed-methods study demonstrates that senior HR managers socially construct and enact business school reputations by drawing on strategic rationales. These rationales are embedded in societal, field and organizational logics, especially the extant reputational rankings of international business schools and an ‘ideal’ template of elite business schools. We find that these rationales, and the decisions they evince, tend to confirm the traditional picture of conformist innovation among HR executives. We discuss the implications for the reputation of HR as a profession, their employers and business schools

Strategic foresight: towards enhancing leadership capabilities and business sustainability

СЕКЦИЯ 9. АКТУАЛЬНЫЕ ФИНАНСОВЫЕ И ЭКОНОМИЧЕСКИЕ АСПЕКТЫ РАЗВИТИЯ ОТРАСЛЕ

Search for the Flavor-Changing Neutral-Current Decays D+→π+μ+μ−D^+\to \pi^+ \mu^+ \mu^- and D+→π+e+e−D^+\to \pi^+ e^+ e^-

We report the results of a search for the flavor-changing neutral-current decays $D^+\rightarrow \pi^+ \mu^+ \mu^-$ and $D^+\rightarrow \pi^+ e^+ e^-$ in data from Fermilab charm hadroproduction experiment E791. No signal above background is found, and we obtain upper limits on branching fractions, $B(D^+\rightarrow \pi^+ \mu^+ \mu^-) < 1.8 \times 10^{-5}$ and $B(D^+\rightarrow \pi^+ e^+ e^-) < 6.6 \times 10^{-5}$, at the 90\% confidence level.Comment: nine pages with figures; compressed, uuencoded postscrip

Fermilab E791

Fermilab E791, a very high statistics charm particle experiment, recently completed its data taking at Fermilab's Tagged Photon Laboratory. Over 20 billion events were recorded through a loose transverse energy trigger and written to 8mm tape in the the 1991-92 fixed target run at Fermilab. This unprecedented data sample containing charm is being analysed on many-thousand MIP RISC computing farms set up at sites in the collaboration. A glimpse of the data taking and analysis effort is presented. We also show some preliminary results for common charm decay modes. Our present analysis indicates a very rich yield of over 200K reconstructed charm decays.Comment: 4 pages, 1 figure, LaTe