Psychiatric medication: what the occupational health nurse should know

1. Occupational health nurses need a general knowledge of psychiatric medications to work effectively with clients and their off site health providers. 2. Acquiring an understanding of the major classes of medications--anti-psychotic, anti-anxiety, anti-depressant, and antimanic--is important. 3. It is helpful to understand under what conditions and with which conditions psychotropic medications are helpful.     

The Manager as Pirate: An Inspection of the Gentle Art of Bootlegging

Bootlegging is a special type of innovation involving covert research without the explicit approval of the responsible manager. It incorporates a dimension of secrecy as this research does not appear on project sheets drawn up by the management of firms. But it might also incorporate the dimension of conspiracy if the innovative activity is pursued by a research team, and perhaps with wider tacit support. Bootlegging exists as a phenomenon in a large number of companies. Interview findings suggest that the attitudes of management towards bootlegging are determined by prevailing perceptions of uncertainty and knowledge about the nature of decision processes.     

Global Environmental Change: Management Under Long-range Uncertainty

This paper gives an overview of social science challenges in global environmental research. After a sketch of backgrounds, the ‘social dilemma’ is introduced as a major research question. It is asserted that current uncertainties over global environmental change provoke innovative studies on risk behaviour and management of long-range, largely unpredictable, phenomena. Various illustrations of new research initiatives and directions are given.     

Applications of Telos

EuLisp has an integrated object system with reflective capabilities. We discuss some example applications which use these facilities to experiment with some advanced and powerful concepts, namely, finalization, virtual shared memory and persistence. A secondary goal is to attempt to illustrate the additional possibilities of metaobject programming over non-metalevel techniques.     

Enhancement mode InP MISFET's with sulfide passivation andphoto-CVD grown P3N5 gate insulators

High performance enhancement mode InP MISFET's have been successfully fabricated by using the sulfide passivation for lower interface states and with photo-CVD grown P₃N₅ film used as gate insulator. The MISFET's thus fabricated exhibited exhibited pinch-off behavior with essentially no hysteresis. Furthermore the device showed a superior stability of drain current. Specifically under the gate bias of 2 V for 10⁴ seconds the room temperature drain current was shown to reduce from the initial value merely by 2.9% at the drain voltage of 4 V. The effective electron mobility and extrinsic transconductance are found to be about 2300 cm ²/V·s and 2.7 mS/mm, respectively. The capacitance-voltage characteristics of the sulfide passivated InP MIS diodes show little hysteresis and the minimum density of interface trap states as low as 2.6×10¹⁴/cm² eV has been attained     

A fully distributed power control algorithm for cellular mobilesystems

Several distributed power control algorithms that can achieve carrier-to-interference ratio (CIR) balancing with probability one have been proposed previously for cellular mobile systems. In these algorithms, only local information is used to adjust transmitting power. However, a normalization procedure is required in each iteration to determine transmitting power and, thus, these algorithms are not fully distributed. In this paper, we present a distributed power control algorithm which does not need the normalization procedure. We show that the proposed algorithm can achieve CIR balancing with probability one. Moreover, numerical results reveal our proposed scheme performs better than the algorithm presented in Grandhi et al. [1994]. The excellent performance and the fully distributed property make our proposed algorithm a good choice for cellular mobile systems     

Quantitative NMR spectroscopy by matrix pencil methods

The matrix pencil (MP) method, based on the singular value decomposition (SVD), is applied to quantitative NMR spectroscopy. Its relationship to other SVD-based methods is also presented. Simulations and applications are given to demonstrate the capability of superior performance.©1993 John Wiley & Sons Inc     

Simple approximations of the DC flux influence on the core losspower electronic ferrites and their use in design of magnetic components

The effect of DC flux on the core loss is examined for the practical range of power and frequency. Relevant core loss equations are derived and applied to an optimization algorithm to determine the minimum core loss at a given ratio of s (DC flux density to AC peak flux density). It has been found that the curves of hysteresis loss density versus the ratio of s exhibit a peak at a critical ratio. Below or above this critical ratio, the loss density decreases drastically. On the other hand, the curves of eddy-current loss density versus the ratio of s exhibits a minimum point at a critical ratio. Below or above this critical ratio, the loss density increases gradually