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A Conversation With David Bellhouse

International Statistical Review, EarlyView.
Summary David Richard Bellhouse was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, on 19 July 1948. He studied actuarial mathematics and statistics at the University of Manitoba (BA, 1970; MA, 1972) and completed his PhD at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, in 1975. After being an Assistant Professor for 1 year at his alma mater, he joined the University of Western ...
Christian Genest
wiley   +1 more source

Use of hydraulic rating to set environmental flows in the Zhangxi River, China [PDF]

, 2010
Ningbo city, China, is a rapidly growing residential and industrial centre, with a current population of 4 million. Its development has required a major water supply expansion programme providing 400,000 m3 of water per day from the upper reaches of the ...
Acreman, M.C., Chen, M.R., Gong, F.J., Lin, X., Liu, Z., Peng, E., Rameshwaran, P.   +6 more
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Ten‐Year Update of Nurse Practitioner Service Impact on Patient and Health Service Outcomes in Emergency Care Settings—A Systematic Review

Journal of Advanced Nursing, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aims To provide a 10‐year update on the best available evidence evaluating the impact of nurse practitioner services on cost, waiting times, patient satisfaction, representation rates, and length of stay in emergency and urgent care settings. Design Systematic review.
Amanda Fox, Suzanne Williams, Natasha Jennings, Ella Marie Tomkins, Rosie Glynn, Corinne Dunningham, Kathleen Tori   +6 more
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An investigation into the potential losses of fish on the filter plates at the Hodder Water Treatment Works Stocks Reservoir [PDF]

, 1984
Stocks Reservoir is situated amidst the Forest of Bowland in the upper reaches of the old river valley of the Hodder. The reservoir was built in 1927 for the Fylde Water Board who primarily supplied water to Blackpool.

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Vectors and Vector‐Borne Diseases: Biology, Epidemiology and Integrated Control Strategies

Journal of Applied Entomology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Vector‐Borne Diseases (VBDs), transmitted by arthropods such as mosquitoes, ticks, fleas and sandflies, represent a significant threat to global health. These diseases can be caused by a variety of pathogens, including bacteria, viruses, protozoa, and helminths.
Roberta Rinaldi, Carmen Scieuzo, Federica De Stefano, Luca Masucci, Patrizia Falabella   +4 more
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Effect of spacing and skew-angle on clear-water scour at pier alignments [PDF]

, 2012
Pier alignments, defined as single-row pier groups, displayed normal to main bridges’ axes, are frequently used to support bridge decks. Different alignments configurations, characterized by different combinations of piers’ shape and spacing and skew ...
Cardoso, António, Fael, Cristina, Lança, Rui, Maia, Rodrigo, Pêgo, João   +4 more
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First occurrences of Trionychidae (Testudines, Cryptodira) from the Miocene of Poland: Detailed cranial anatomy and biogeographic implications

Journal of Anatomy, EarlyView.
Fossil finds from three Middle Miocene sites in Poland reveal the northernmost known presence of trionychid turtles in Europe, tentatively identified as Trionyx cf. vindobonensis, suggesting a warmer climate that supported thermophilic species in Central Europe during this period. Abstract Modern trionychids (Testudines, Cryptodira) have a pan‐tropical
Yohan Pochat‐Cottilloux, Sergi López‐Torres, Milan Chroust, Georgios L. Georgalis, Marcin Górka, Mateusz Tałanda   +5 more
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The Western Irish Namurian Basin reassessed [PDF]

, 2000
Current basin models for the Western Irish Namurian Basin (WINB) envisage an elongate trough along the line of the present-day Shannon Estuary that was infilled with clastic sediments derived from a hinterland that lay to the W or NW.
Best, J.L., Wignall, P.B.
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Organizational Soundscapes and the Sonicity of Voices: The Power of the ‘Sounds’ that Carry ‘Words’

Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Organizations are soundscapes – they resonate with sounds and particularly the sounds of voices. Somehow however voice sonics, that is the sounds of voices and not the words carried on those sounds, have escaped attention in management studies. This absence of analysis is peculiar given voice sonics' undoubted influence on management (they may
Nancy Harding, Jackie Ford
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Search for impact ejecta at the Paleocene–Eocene boundary

Meteoritics &Planetary Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Almost 10 years have passed since microtektites and microkrystites were reported for the Paleocene–Eocene (P–E) boundary in drill cores and outcrop in New Jersey and in ODP Hole 1051B in the western North Atlantic. The glassy spherules were interpreted to reflect an impact trigger for the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM).
Birger Schmitz, Yue Cai, Shiyong Liao, Victoriano Pujalte, Ting Ruan, Robert P. Speijer, Ellen Thomas   +6 more
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