Tsunami generation by ocean floor rupture front propagation: Hamiltonian description

The Hamiltonian method is applied to the problem of tsunami generation caused by a propagating rupture front and deformation of the ocean floor. The method establishes an alternative framework for analyzing the tsunami generation process and produces analytical expressions for the power and directivity of tsunami radiation (in the far-field) for two illustrative cases, with constant and gradually varying speeds of rupture front propagation

APOM-project: a pilot study of pharmacy organization and management

Recently, in a joint cooperation of Stichting VNA, SAL Apotheken, the Faculty of Management and Organization, and the University Centre for Pharmacy, University of Groningen in the Netherlands, a Ph.D-study started regarding Apot(he)ek, Organization and Management (APOM). The APOM-project deals with the structuring and steering of pharmacy organization. The manageability of the internal pharmacy organization, and the manageability of the direct environment of pharmacy organization is the subject matter. The theoretical background of the APOM-project is described. A literature study was made to find mixes of objectives. Three mixes of objectives in pharmacy organization are postulated; the product mix, the process mix, and the customer mix. The typology will be used as a basic starting point for the empirical study in the next phase of the APOM-project.

APOM-project : a study of pharmacy practice

In 1994, a Ph.D-study started regarding pharmacy, organization and management (APOM) in the Netherlands. The APOM-project deals with the structuring and steering of pharmacy organization. This article describes the summary of the empirical results of a survey in a relatively large sample (n=169). Generalization to the population of pharmacies in the Netherlands was made. The results for thought, the perceived importance of activities, comprised a total number of seven clusters of priorities of pharmacy mixes. Most pharmacy managers perceived the product (pharmaceutical) activities and the customer activities as the most important. The results for action, the actual performance of activities, comprised a total number of five clusters of activities of pharmacy mixes. Most pharmacy managers performed the product activities and the process (financial-economic) activities most frequently. The results showed that the traditional conception of the work in the community pharmacy is still vividly present.

APOM-project: an investigation of pharmacy organization and management

Recently, in a joint cooperation of Stichting VNA, SAL Apotheken, the Faculty of Management and Organization, and the University Centre for Pharmacy, University of Groningen in the Netherlands, a Ph.D-study started regarding Apot(he)ek, Organization and Management (APOM). The APOM-project deals with the structuring and steering of pharmacy organization. The manageability of the internal pharmacy organization, and the manageability of the direct environment of pharmacy organization is the subject matter. The theoretical background of the APOM-project is described. A literature study was made to find mixes of objectives. Three mixes of objectives in pharmacy organization are postulated; the product mix, the process mix, and the customer mix. The typology will be used as a basic starting point for the empirical study in the next phase of the APOM-project.

Metaxanine, A Systemic Fungicide Against Plasmopara Viticola on Wine Grapes: Disease Control, Residues and Effect on Fermentation and Wine Quality

The systemic fungicide metaxanine/methyl D, L-N-(2,6-dimethyl-phenyl)-N-(2 methoxyacetyl) alaninate/, was compared with mancozeb for the control of Plasmopara viticola (B x C) Berl. & de T. on grapevines in the Western Cape Province of South Africa. The systemic fungicide gave better control thanmancozeb. Good control was obtained with applications of the systemic fungicide at 21 day intervals, despite the fact that weather conditions were particularly favourable for disease development. Residues of metaxanine recovered from grapes were low and did not affect either the onset, or the rate of fermentation of grape juice, nor did it affect wine quality

The Effect of Fermentation Time (as Induced by Fermentation and Must Conditions) on the Chemical Profile and Quality of a Chenin blanc Wine

Pattern recognition and simple factorial analyses were applied to chemical profiles determined on wines resulting from an experiment in which the effect of grape solids, assimilable nitrogen, bentonite and fermentation temperaturelevels as well as culture aeration on total fermentation time was investigated. It was found that fermentation times of the untreated Chenin blanc must could be shortened considerably by increasing grape solid levels and/ or nitrogen as well as temperature. However, it was established that the speeding up of fermentation at sub-optimal assimilable nitrogen levels leads to wines relatively high in higher alcohols and low in esters