The electrical admittance of a homogeneous polarized fully electroded circular disc, loss-less and mechanically free : analysis, including Rayleigh correction, data for routine determination of elastic modulus and Piezoelectric coupling, and discussion of limitation of correction, anisotrophy parameters involved, and deductions concerning dimensional standarization /

"ONR Contract No. Nonr-1055(00)."

International law documents. Conference on the limitation of armament. With notes and index. 1921.

"The discussions upon international law at the Naval War College have been conducted by George Grafton Wilson, LL. D., professor of international law in Harvard university, and one of the legal advisers at the Conference on limitation of armamemt." -Pref., p. iii.

Conference on the limitation of armament.

Mode of access: Internet.

Oversight of Indian claims affected by federal statute of limitations : hearing before the Select Committee on Indian Affairs, United States Senate, Ninety-seventh Congress, second session, on oversight of Indian claims affected by the federal statute of limitations, April 1, 1982, Washington, D.C

Part 2, "September 16, 1982" 1984.

CPA audit quality : status of actions taken to improve auditing and financial reporting of public companies : report to the chairman, Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee, Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives /

"B-233641"-- P. [1].

OASDI : a compilation of state and territorial enactments for the uses of old age and survivors insurance for public employees, and of actions by referenda /

Cover title.

The answer of Mr. Sullivan, to the letter and mis-statements of the Hon. Cadwallader D. Colden, in his "Brief exposition" of himself as the advocate of monopoly. The unconstitutionality or limitation of the monopoly demonstrated. The bad policy and injurious effects of it on the community exposed. The legality of an extension of the term of time of a patent when for the good of a state; and the just views and claims of patentees in steam navigation fully explained.

Pages 29-34 contain "Mr. Duer's opinion on the claim of Mr. Sullivan as a patentee, to navigate with steam boats, the waters of the state of New-York."

Cases and other materials on judicial remedies, from the forms of actions and the classical equity practice to the Federal rules of civil procedure,

"Tables of cases": p. 1295-1301. "Table of statutes, constitutional provisions and rules of court": p. 1303-1309

Military implications of the Treaty on the limitation of strategic offensive arms and protocol thereto (SALT II Treaty) : hearings before the Committee on Armed Services, United States Senate, Ninety-sixth Congress, first session ...

Includes indexes.

Nitrogen, phosphorus, silica, and carbon in Moreton Bay, Queensland, Australia: Differential limitation of phytoplankton biomass and production

Subtropical estuaries have received comparatively little attention in the study of nutrient loading and subsequent nutrient processing relative to temperate estuaries. Australian estuaries are particularly susceptible to increased nutrient loading and eutrophication, as 75% of the population resides within 200 km of the coastline. We assessed the factors potentially limiting both biomass and production in one Australian estuary, Moreton Bay, through stoichiometric comparisons of nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), silicon (Si), and carbon (C) concentrations, particulate compositions, and rates of uptake. Samples were collected over 3 seasons in 1997-1998 at stations located throughout the bay system, including one riverine endmember site. Concentrations of all dissolved nutrients, as well as particulate nutrients and chlorophyll, declined 10-fold to 100-fold from the impacted western embayments to the eastern, more oceanic-influenced regions of the bay during all seasons. For all seasons and all regions, both the dissolved nutrients and particulate biomass yielded N : P ratios < 6 and N : Si ratios < 1. Both relationships suggest strong limitation of biomass by N throughout the bay. Limitation of rates of nutrient uptake and productivity were more complex. Low C : N and C : P uptake ratios at the riverine site suggested light limitation at all seasons, low N : P ratios suggested some degree of N limitation and high N : Si uptake ratios in austral winter suggested Si limitation of uptake during that season only. No evidence of P limitation of biomass or productivity was evident.

Analysis of the impact of limitation of medical treatment orders during unplanned transfers from sub-acute care to emergency departments

BACKGROUND: The impact of limitation of medical treatment orders (LOMT) on patient outcomes following transfer from sub-acute care to the Emergency Department remains unclear.

METHODS: Retrospective medical record review of 431 adult in-patients who required ambulance transfer following clinical deterioration during a sub-acute care admission during 2010.

RESULTS: Common reasons for transfer were respiratory (18.9%) or neurological (19.0%) conditions; 35.7% (154/431) were transferred within one week of sub-acute care admission. LOMT orders were in place for 37.8% (n=163) patients who were older (p<0.001), with more comorbidities (p<0.005), specifically cardiac, renal and pulmonary disease than patients without LOMT. Patients with LOMT orders had more physiological abnormalities before transfer; tachypnoea (43.7% vs 28.6%), hypoxaemia (63.5% vs 48.4%) and severe hypoxaemia (27.6% vs 14.5%). There were no differences in rates of admission, cardiac arrest, Medical Emergency Team activation or ICU admission. For admitted patients, those with LOMT orders had significantly (p≤0.005) higher mortality: in-hospital (21.9% vs 11.3%); 30 days (23.9% vs 12.3%) and 60 days (28.2% vs 13.4%).

CONCLUSIONS: Patients with LOMT had higher levels of comorbidity and were more acutely ill during their sub-acute care admission. Once transferred those with a LOMT had similar rates of cardiac arrest, MET activation and unplanned ICU admission, but higher mortality.

The influence of actions on auditory perception: cognitive and neural mechanisms

It is well known that self-generated stimuli are processed differently from externally generated stimuli. For example, many people have noticed since childhood that it is very difficult to make a self-tickling. In the auditory domain, self-generated sounds elicit smaller brain responses as compared to externally generated sounds, known as the sensory attenuation (SA) effect. SA is manifested in reduced amplitudes of evoked responses as measured through MEEG, decreased firing rates of neurons and a lower level of perceived loudness for self-generated sounds. The predominant explanation for SA is based on the idea that self-generated stimuli are predicted (e.g., the forward model account). It is the nature of their predictability that is crucial for SA. On the contrary, the sensory gating account emphasizes a general suppressive effect of actions on sensory processing, regardless of the predictability of the stimuli. Both accounts have received empirical support, which suggests that both mechanisms may exist. In chapter 2, three behavioural studies concerning the influence of motor activation on auditory perception were presented. Study 1 compared the effect of SA and attention in an auditory detection task and showed that SA was present even when substantial attention was paid to unpredictable stimuli. Study 2 compared the loudness perception of tones generated by others between Chinese and British participants. Compared to externally generated tones, a decrease in perceived loudness for others generated tones was found among Chinese but not among the British. In study 3, partial evidence was found that even when reading words that are related to action, auditory detection performance was impaired. In chapter 3, the classic SA effect of M100 suppression was replicated with MEG in study 4. With time-frequency analysis, a potential neural information processing sequence was found in auditory cortex. Prior to the onset of self-generated tones, there was an increase of oscillatory power in the alpha band. After the stimulus onset, reduced gamma power and alpha/beta phase locking were found. The three temporally segregated oscillatory events correlated with each other and with SA effect, which may be the underlying neural implementation of SA. In chapter 4, a TMS-MEG study was presented investigating the role of the cerebellum in adapting to delayed presentation of self-generated tones (study 5). It demonstrated that in sham stimulation condition, the brain can adapt to the delay (about 100 ms) within 300 trials of learning by showing a significant increase of SA effect in the suppression of M100, but not M200 component. Whereas after stimulating the cerebellum with a suppressive TMS protocol, the adaptation in M100 suppression disappeared and the pattern of M200 suppression reversed to M200 enhancement. These data support the idea that the suppressive effect of actions on auditory processing is a consequence of both motor driven sensory predictions and general sensory gating. The results also demonstrate the importance of neural oscillations in implementing SA effect and the critical role of the cerebellum in learning sensory predictions under sensory perturbation.