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Showing 1 to 20 of 96 for “"MSD"”.
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Challenges Facing Employees’ Career Development:The Case of Medical Stores Department Staff
This study explored challenges encounter by MSD employees in their career development and suggested measures to countercheck the situation. The logic behind this study was the presence to human resources practitioners with minimal knowledge and experience despite massive efforts taken by the …
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Design and Testing of a Hovercraft with Electroaerodynamic Propulsion
Electroaerodynamic (EAD) multistaged ducted (MSD) thrusters are a novel solid-state thruster architecture that has been shown to provide order-of-magnitude improvements in thrust density compared to single-stage EAD thrusters. This makes MSD thrusters well-suited for use in EAD hovercraft, where …
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Maize streak virus (MSV) diversity in Uganda and the assessment of gene silencing as a tool for development of resistance to MSV
… is the causal agent of maize streak disease (MSD) that contributes significantly to low maize yields in Africa, thereby threatening food security of sub-Saharan Africa’s poorest people. In Uganda, MSD has been identified as one of the most important constraints to maize production. In order to …
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An investigation into the risk factors of musculoskeletal diseases and the association between chronic diseases of lifestyle in an under-resourced area of the Cape Town Metropole
… in urban areas. Musculoskeletal disease (MSD) is the most common cause of severe chronic or persistent pain, functional limitations, and physical disability, affecting 20-50% of adults. Globally, disability due to musculoskeletal disease is estimated to have increased by 45% from 1990 to …
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DYNAMICS AND COMPACTION OF CONGESTED AND/OR CONFINED DNA
… DNA is discussed. The mean square displacement (MSD), reorientation correlation, and the radius of gyration of entangled lambda-phage DNA and the MSD of cosmid DNA were obtained with fluorescence microscopy. From an analysis of the end-segment MSD of lambda DNA with Doi-Edwards theory, the Rouse …
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Overweight and Obesity in Health Care Workers in Relation to Musculoskeletal Conditions and Weight Loss
<p>Musculoskeletal disorders (MSD) are the most prevalent occupational injuries in nursing home employees. Most of the research and interventions in the past 30 years have focused on teaching and training nursing home staff proper lifting and body mechanics to reduce the risk of injury. The …
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Incorporating Functionally Graded Materials and Precipitation Hardening into Microstructure Sensitive Design
<p>The methods of MSD are applied to the design of functionally graded materials. Analysis models are presented to allow the design of compliant derailleur for a case study and constraints are placed on the design. Several methods are presented for relating elements of the microstructure to the …
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Comparing teachers', administrators' and instructional coaches' perceptions of personalized professional development
… practices in the Metropolitan School District (MSD) of Warren Township. MSD of Warren Township is a large, mostly urban school district located in central Indiana. After reviewing the literature, the need for this specific research became evident as there were limited quantitative findings …
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Ergonomics Programs In Kentucky's Nursing Homes
… that might exist between ergonomics programs and MSD rates occurring among direct care workers engaged in moving and physically assisting residents. Findings suggest a high percentage of Kentucky"s nursing homes have ergonomics programs in place for their direct care workers, and that these …
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Assessment of the Challenges Behind the Ineffective Customs Clearance of Goods at Sea Port
… the drugs and medical supplies are procured by MSD from oversea suppliers through international tenders as per threshold set by PPA, 2004. All imported goods are subject to customs clearance at the port of entry in every destination country. Delay in customs clearing of goods causes to emerge …
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Phonon dispersion curves and atomic mean square displacement for several fcc and bcc materials
The atomic mean square displacement (MSD) and the phonon dispersion curves (PDC's) of a number of face-centred cubic (fcc) and body-centred cubic (bcc) materials have been calclllated from the quasiharmonic (QH) theory, the lowest order (A2 ) perturbation theory (PT) and a recently proposed Green's …
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Theoretical and experimental modelling of multiple site damage in plate components.
… of structures weakened by multiple site damage (MSD), such as two or more interacting cracks, currently represents a challenging problem. The lifetime prediction of structural components with MSD is still largely based on 2D single crack solutions available in various handbooks or derived from …
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Hidden Markov model analysis of subcellular particle trajectories
… that involve fitting a mean square displacement (MSD) curve calculated from the particle trajectories. Our HMM algorithms are shown to be more accurate than existing MSD algorithms for heterogeneous trajectories which switch between multiple phases of motion.
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Towards Practical Fixed-Wing Aircraft with Electroaerodynamic Propulsion
… uncrewed aircraft powered by multistaged ducted (MSD) EAD thrusters for a package delivery mission, and an uncrewed MSD-powered monoplane for a surveillance mission. MSD thrusters are more powerful and efficient than equivalent unducted EAD thrusters, in part because the duct contributes to …
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Identifying critical-entry teaching competencies for beginning special educators: The Delphi study
… students with moderate or severe disabilities (MSD) were identified by two, 12 member panels, each consisting of six nominated expert classroom teachers and six nominated teacher educators. Each panel identified critical-entry competencies using a Delphi process with three rounds: (1) an initial …
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Whole-body biomechanical load monitoring from accelerometry in team sports
… be estimated with a mass-spring-damper model (MSD-model). Nonetheless, the MSD-model’s accuracy to estimate GRF slightly decreases for sharp changes of direction at high intensities, because the absorption of energy and generation of energy are decoupled. Finally, a novel approach to estimate …
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Early childhood diarrhea and growth among HIV-exposed, uninfected infants in Kenya
… of diarrhea, moderate-to-severe diarrhea (MSD; diarrhea with dehydration, dysentery, or related hospital admission), and prolonged/persistent diarrhea (Chapter 1). Length-for-age z-scores (LAZ) were used to measure infant linear growth. Mixed-effects models estimated the difference in …
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Capacitor Ladder Circuitry for Improving Electrical Energy Transfer Efficiency to Electromechanical Actuators
… that is modeled as a mass-spring-damper (MSD) system. The whole chain of power conversion involves an electrical transfer efficiency and a mechanical energy conversion efficiency. The first chapter walks through the motivation and failure to build a dielectric elastomeric as a MSD test …
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Proper decompositions of finitely presented groups
… such a G is a maximal set of disjoint tracks (or MSD). Here we construct an algorithm to generate an MSD for a finitely presented group G, or terminate early providing a track that gives a proper decomposition of G. Part of this algorithm includes the proof that if a group, not immediately …
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Ground movements due to excavation in clay: physical and analytical models
… of 30%. An improved mobilizable strength method (MSD) method using observed mechanistic deformation patterns was introduced to calculate the displacement profile of a multi-propped undrained excavation in soft clay. The incremental loss in potential energy associated with the formation of …
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