833 research outputs found
Substantiation data for hypersonic cruise vehicle wing structure evaluation - Volume 1, sections 1-10
Trajectory, load, aerodynamic heating, materials, structural, and thermal analyses for hypersonic cruise vehicle wing
Toward a Holistic Agricultural Student Recruitment Model: A National Analysis of the Factors Affecting Studentsâ Decision to Pursue an Agricultural Related Degree
Currently, the agricultural industry struggles to fill positions with qualified agricultural workers. Therefore, it is critical to attract high caliber individuals to agricultural degree programs that are prepared to enter the workforce with the skills needed to navigate complex issues and problems. The purpose of this national study was to identify key factors that influence the recruitment of agriculture students at land-grant and non-land-grant universities. Using Chapmanâs model of student success as our conceptual lens, we tested 66 factors identified in the literature as successful recruitment strategies for colleges of agriculture based on studentsâ personal characteristics as well as key external influences. We discovered statistically significant (p \u3c .05) differences existed based on studentsâ gender and race/ethnicity. To better operationalize the findings from this study for U.S. colleges of agriculture, we developed the agricultural student recruitment model (ASRM). The model visually represents the distinct but intersecting factors that most profoundly influence studentsâ academic degree decisions. Moving forward, we recommend colleges of agriculture use the ASRM as a tool to better resonate with populations that may lack representation in their degree programs and the stateâs agricultural industry
Antimalarial Drug Evaluations: Namru-2 And Indonesian Partnership
Meningkatnya insiden malaria di beberapa daerah tertentu terutama di Indonesia Bagian Timur disebabkan antara lain : P. falciparum telah resisten terhadap beberapa obat antimalaria, ditemukannya P. vivax resisten klorokuin, dan belum tersedianya vaksin yang efektif. Sehubungan dengan hal tersebut, dilakukanlah evaluasi obat antimalaria yang perlu dipertimbangkan dalam peningkatan pelaksanaan program. Obat antimalaria meflokuin, halofantrin dan beberapa derivat qinghaosu (artesunat dan artemeter) telah diuji coba klinik di Indonesia, dan memberikan efikasi yang cukup baik walaupun perlu dipertimbangkan kemungkinan efek samping dan resistensi atau rekrudesensi yang mungkin terjadi serta harganya yang relatif masih mahal. Obat antimalaria baru yang direncanakan akan diuji coba klinik adalah azithromycin, derivat primaquine WR 238605, atovaquone dan derivat qinghaosu lain. Dasar pengembangan pengobatan malaria adalah sebagai berikut: Meningkatkan atau memperbaiki efikasi pengobatan malaria tanpa komplikasi yaitu dengan mengembangkan kombinasi atau regimen obat antimalaria yang tersedia di Indonesia (klorokuin dan tetrasiklin/doksisiklin) atau dengan mempersiapkan obat antimalaria baru (derivat qinghaosu, atovaquone, azithromycin dan WR 238605).Mencari obat antimalaria baru alternatif yang efektif sebagai obat penyelamat untuk pengobatan malaria dengan komplikasi. Dengan melakukan evaluasi obat antimalaria ini, akan didapat data efikasi dan keamanan yang dapat membantu Departemen Kesehatan untuk menentukan obat pilihan di Indonesia. Selain itu juga dapat ikut membantu menanggulangi masalah malaria di dunia
Does maternal oral health predict child oral health-related quality of life in adulthood?
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>A parental/family history of poor oral health may influence the oral-health-related quality of life (OHRQOL) of adults.</p> <p>Objectives</p> <p>To determine whether the oral health of mothers of young children can predict the OHRQOL of those same children when they reach adulthood.</p> <p>Methods</p> <p>Oral examination and interview data from the Dunedin Study's age-32 assessment, as well as maternal self-rated oral health data from the age-5 assessment were used. The main outcome measure was study members' short-form Oral Health Impact Profile (OHIP-14) at age 32. Analyses involved 827 individuals (81.5% of the surviving cohort) dentally examined at both ages, who also completed the OHIP-14 questionnaire at age 32, and whose mothers were interviewed at the age-5 assessment.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>There was a consistent gradient of relative risk across the categories of maternal self-rated oral health status at the age-5 assessment for having one or more impacts in the overall OHIP-14 scale, whereby risk was greatest among the study members whose mothers rated their oral health as "poor/edentulous", and lowest among those with an "excellent/fairly good" rating. In addition, there was a gradient in the age-32 mean OHIP-14 score, and in the mean number of OHIP-14 impacts at age 32 across the categories of maternal self-rated oral health status. The higher risk of having one or more impacts in the psychological discomfort subscale, when mother rated her oral health as "poor/edentulous", was statistically significant.</p> <p>Conclusions</p> <p>These data suggest that maternal self-rated oral health when a child is young has a bearing on that child's OHRQOL almost three decades later. The adult offspring of mothers with poor self-rated oral health had poorer OHRQOL outcomes, particularly in the psychological discomfort subscale.</p
Disposition Index (DI) is not Improved with High-Intensity Intermittent Exercise in Adults with Hyperinsulinemia and Pre-Diabetes
Minimising Tibial Fracture after Unicompartmental Knee Replacement: A Probabilistic Finite Element Study
Space-time localization of inner heliospheric plasma turbulence using multiple spacecraft radio links
Radio remote sensing of the heliosphere using spacecraft radio signals has
been used to study the near-sun plasma in and out of the ecliptic, close to the
sun, and on spatial and temporal scales not accessible with other techniques.
Studies of space-time variations in the inner solar wind are particularly
timely because of the desire to understand and predict space weather, which can
disturb satellites and systems at 1AU and affect human space exploration. Here
we demonstrate proof-of-concept of a new radio science application for
spacecraft radio science links. The differing transfer functions of plasma
irregularities to spacecraft radio up- and downlinks can be exploited to
localize plasma scattering along the line of sight. We demonstrate the utility
of this idea using Cassini radio data taken in 2001-2002. Under favorable
circumstances we demonstrate how this technique, unlike other remote sensing
methods, can determine center-of-scattering position to within a few
thousandths of an AU and thickness of scattering region to less than about 0.02
AU. This method, applied to large data sets and used in conjunction with other
solar remote sensing data such as white light data, has space weather
application in studies of inhomogeneity and nonstationarity in the near-sun
solar wind.Comment: 28 Pages including 14 Figures (7 unique figures in both inline format
and full-page format)
Assessment of head displacement and disassembly force with increasing assembly load at the modular head/trunnion junction of a total hip replacement prosthesis
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