The Patriotic Ladies' Association (PLA) ,I which operated in Japan between 1901 and 1942, was one of the world's largest women's associations, with about seven million members at its height. Although its main purpose ...

Activity data accumulated in real life, e.g. in terrorist activities and fraudulent customer contacts, presents special structural and semantic complexities. However, it may lead to or be associated with significant ...

There is considerable interest among basic and clinical researchers in novel drugs with activity against leukemia. The vast history of experience of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) with medicinal plants may facilitate ...

The article provides an actor-network critique of ideas on community that are influential in higher education and draws implications for networked learning theory and practice. Networked learning is examined as an educational ...

On average, Australia is a dry continent with many competing uses for water. Hence, there is an urgent need to know actual evapotranspiration (ETa) patterns across wide areas of agricultural and natural ecosystems, as ...

Like acupuncture, dry needling involves the insertion of acupuncture needles into specific points on the body to improve health. Unlike acupuncture, the practice of dry needling is unregulated in Australia. This paper ...

Background: Patient safety and economic imperatives have made discharge planning for patients in acute care increasingly important in the last two decades. Indeed patients have more complex health care needs, shorter lengths ...

Large animals are severely depleted in many ecosystems, yet we are only beginning to understand the ecological implications of their loss. To empirically measure the short-term effects of removing large animals from an ...

Nu-3 [butyl-phosphate-5'-thymidine-3'-phosphate-butyl] is a modified nucleotide that has been shown to have antimicrobial activity against a range of bacteria including Pseudomonas aeruginosa. However, data on the toxicological ...