Pressure Treated Wood

Discusses chemical treatments to increase wood's fire resistance and protect it from rot and termites

Anthropogenic Electromagnetic Fields and Cancer: A Perspective

The authors review findings of a recent National Research Council report and conclude that, e.g., until a cancer promotion model can be identified for effective testing, the EMF issue will remain open to debate

The literary career of Thomas Lodge, 1579-1596: studies of the plays, prose fiction and verse

This thesis consists of studies of Lodge's writings in the major genres during his literary career, from 1579 to 1596. The first chapter is a biographical sketch, with particular attention to that period. The literary career is seen as a diversion and a postponement of his real vocations, medicine and Catholicism. The sixth chapter comments briefly on the pamphlets and the later works. The four main chapters treat, respectively, plays, prose fiction, lyric poems and sonnets, narrative and satirical verse. The studies include description of little-known works, structural and prosodic analysis, critical assessment, some textual criticism, source study and consideration of Elizabethan literary history as it impinges upon Lodge's writings. The bibliography is part of the thesis and is intended as a research, tool in its own right. It consists of classified lists of essential materials for scholarly and critical work on Lodge. The thesis is thus partly exploratory and preparatory. The main critical contention is that Lodge's literary reputation has suffered from its subsidiary relationship with Shakespeare's. Lodge excelled as a poet, particularly as a lyrist, and ought to be regarded primarily as such, rather than primarily as a prose romancer (i.e., author of Rosalynde). It is urged that editions of Lodge's works, beginning with the verse, are needed

Journey Beyond the Fair

Journey Beyond the Fair will combine a vast virtual world environment and hand-held devices to develop a tightly coupled home-school-museum paradigm that enhances traditional exhibits. This paradigm is designed to work as a national model where informal humanities education institutions can add depth of learning and heighten the level of interactivity and personalization of an onsite experience by strengthening the connections to a home/school-based virtual world experience. While in this instance we are addressing the 1964/65 New York World's Fair, institutions can adapt the concept based on subjects pertinent to their facility, culture and demographic visitation needs

Talent management as a strategy to promote succession of junior managers at Edgars

Talent Management has become one of the biggest challenges facing businesses today. With the skill shortage and the influx of clothing retailers into South Africa in the past two years, the war on talent has intensified. With this in mind the objective of the study was to investigate if Edgars had a successful talent management strategy to promote junior managers through succession. Talent management has different parts including recruitment, learning and development, performance management, reward, leadership, employee value proposition, retention and succession. This study unpacks the literature on talent management and its components and takes a deeper look at the strategy adopted by Edgars. The study highlights the importance of talent management and that there should be clear strategies for every part that makes up the talent management framework. Empirical studies are done on the different sub sections of talent management, findings and recommendations are reported in the final chapters. The target population for this study consisted of junior managers at Edgars, where the majority of key value roles critical for development and store manager succession are. A sample of forty respondents was randomly selected from the total junior management population at Edgars. The findings suggested that when an organisation has effective talent management strategy, it is more likely to create a compelling employee value proposition that is conducive to sustain succession of great talent. Furthermore, the findings revealed that Edgars is effective in applying certain talent strategies while other areas required more attention and focus

The Presence of Pressure Ulcer Documentation On Admission

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Airboat Use and Disturbance of Floating Mat Fen Wetlands in Interior Alaska, U.S.A.

The use of airboats is expanding in Alaska, particularly in the interior. This study describes the nature, magnitude, and distribution of disturbance caused by airboat trails over floating mat fen wetlands in the Tanana Flats near Fairbanks, Alaska. Airphoto interpretation showed over 300 km of airboat trails by 1995, with a 15% expansion of the trail system since 1989. Field sampling was done at 30 trail and adjacent control sites along this trail system to assess changes in hydrology, soils, and vegetation. Water velocities in the trails at two-thirds of the sites were at least an order of magnitude greater than velocities of less than 1.5 cm/sec in the control areas. On average, 30 cm of the 0.5-0.75 m thick floating mat has been removed or eroded by airboat traffic at the sampling locations. Nearly all emergent floating mat vegetation has been destroyed (5% cover remaining on average) so that the trails resemble a highly visible open water stream channel 2-3 m wide through the floating mats. Although the recovery and regrowth potential of floating mats in trails is high, recovery is unlikely in trails with continuing use.En Alaska, l'utilisation des hydroglisseurs est à la hausse, surtout à l'intérieur des terres. Cette étude décrit la nature, l'amplitude et la distribution des perturbations causées par le sillage des hydroglisseurs sur les zones humides de vasières à mattes flottantes situées dans les plaines marécageuses de Tanana près de Fairbanks (en Alaska). L'interprétation de photos a montré que, en 1995, les sillages d'hydroglisseurs s'étendaient sur plus de 300 km, ce qui correspond à une augmentation de 15 p. cent du réseau depuis 1989. On a procédé à un échantillonnage sur le terrain à 30 emplacements de sillages et aires témoins adjacentes le long du réseau en vue d'évaluer les changements dans l'hydrologie, les sols et la végétation. Dans deux tiers des emplacements, la vitesse de l'eau dans les sillages était d'au moins un ordre de grandeur supérieure aux vitesses de moins de 1,5 cm/sec dans les zones témoins. Aux endroits d'échantillonnage, 30 cm en moyenne de la matte flottante épaisse de 0,5 à 0,75 m a été enlevée ou érodée par la circulation de l'hydroglisseur. Presque toute la végétation de la matte flottante émergée a été détruite (il reste en moyenne 5 p. cent du couvert) de sorte que les sillages sont très visibles et forment un chenal d'eau ouverte de 2 à 3 m de large à travers les mattes flottantes. Bien que le potentiel de recouvrement et de repousse des mattes flottantes dans les sillages soit élevé, il est peu probable que ce recouvrement ait lieu dans les sillages qui sont utilisés de façon continue