Dear Old Maine

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Teaching safe intravenous cannulation - an undergraduate imperative

No Abstract. Southern African Journal of Anaesthesia and Analgesia Vol. 12(1) 2006: 4

Editorial: More than the sum of their parts – producing fit for purpose anaesthesiologists

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A Guideline for Increasing Efficiency of TEM/EDS Data Collection by Dwell Time Optimization

Composition analysis using energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS) mapping in transmission electron microscopy (TEM) is crucial in the semiconductor industry for development of new products and enhancement of production yields. High quality EDS data relies on acquiring sufficient X-ray counts from the TEM sample. The amount of time that the electron beam interacts with the sample generating X-rays per pixel within the mapping area is known as dwell time, which is an EDS system parameter that governs optimum data acquisition. However, a systematic study to optimize this parameter has not been previously reported. An analytical expression was derived that enabled the prediction of a dwell time range that optimizes the total X-ray signal collected during the EDS data collection. Experimental results from multiple materials across several TEM/EDS systems confirmed the validity of the expression. The results of this study provide a guideline for increasing efficiency of TEM/EDS data collection from different materials using a variety of TEM/EDS systems through the optimization of EDS dwell time

Family health narratives : midlife women’s concepts of vulnerability to illness

Perceptions of vulnerability to illness are strongly influenced by the salience given to personal experience of illness in the family. This article proposes that this salience is created through autobiographical narrative, both as individual life story and collectively shaped family history. The paper focuses on responses related to health in the family drawn from semi-structured interviews with women in a qualitative study exploring midlife women’s health. Uncertainty about the future was a major emergent theme. Most respondents were worried about a specified condition such as heart disease or breast cancer. Many women were uncertain about whether illness in the family was inherited. Some felt certain that illness in the family meant that they were more vulnerable to illness or that their relatives’ ageing would be mirrored in their own inevitable decline, while a few expressed cautious optimism about the future. In order to elucidate these responses, we focused on narratives in which family members’ appearance was discussed and compared to that of others in the family. The visualisation of both kinship and the effects of illness, led to strong similarities being seen as grounds for worry. This led to some women distancing themselves from the legacies of illness in their families. Women tended to look at the whole family as the context for their perceptions of vulnerability, developing complex patterns of resemblance or difference within their families

Echoes From the Pines

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Regional Political Economies in Conflict: South African Hegemony vs. SADCC Liberation

Prepared for ZPH Frontline Southern Africa: Destructive Engagement

Can Specification Searches Be Useful for Hypothesis Generation?

Previous studies suggest that results from specification searches, as typically employed in structural equation modeling, should not be used to reach strong research conclusions due to their poor reliability. Analyses of computer generated data indicate that search results can be sufficiently reliable for exploratory purposes with properly designed and analyzed studies