While more and more educational institutions use high- resolution, large-scale electronic displays and interactive devices as a substitute for chalkboards, we observed that an increasing number of ...students wants to be able to play- back and view recorded lectures using their mobile devices. However, the presentation of large-scale, high-resolution content on a small-scale, low-resolution, handheld device is a challenge. Applying traditional image and video scaling methods make most of the content unreadable. This article presents a novel visualization algorithm tested with a con- crete electronic chalkboard presentation system, namely the E-Chalk system. It allows viewing of large-scale electronic chalkboard content on handheld devices. In addition, this paper presents different implementations of non-interactive and interactive viewer applications that can be run and in- stalled on different types of mobile devices.
Of 688 patients who underwent renal transplantation, three (0.44%) developed mucormycosis. The initial symptoms common to all of them were epiphora and periorbital pain. One patient had diabetes ...mellitus. All developed the serious complication while being treated for renal transplant rejection between the years 1980-85. At this time and until 1987, all cadaveric transplant recipients at our center routinely received azathioprine and high-dose steroids postoperatively; rejection episodes were treated with intravenous methylprednisolone 1000 mg/day for three days. In April 1987 the postoperative immunosuppression protocol was changed to cyclosporine and a tapering dose of prednisone, with rejection episodes treated with methylprednisolone 500 mg/day for three days, followed by anti T-lym-phocyte antibodies (OKT3, ATG) in resistant cases. It is concluded that the lack of new cases of mucormycosis after 1985 is related to the change in postoperative therapy and acute organ rejection regimen, mainly the reduction in the use of high-dose steroids.
This paper investigates the impact of business and labor organizations upon governmental redistribution to the poor, or the extent to which government expenditures and revenues redistribute income to ...poor households. A cross-sectional analysis of 48 American states circa 1960 supports the propositions that large business corporations negatively affect governmental redistribution and that labor unions positively affect governmental redistribution. The analysis also supports past findings relating socioeconomic development, poverty, and the interaction of Democratic party strengths and cohesion and interparty competition to governmental redistribution. Findings suggest that redistribution to the poor by American state governments is a class issue, partially determined by conflicting class forces.
Examined is the impact of labor & business organization on two state labor market policies: union security laws & minimum wage laws. An analysis of state data circa 1960 suggests that the pattern of ...state union security laws is strongly affected by conflicting class forces. National labor union presence has a strongly positive effect on union security laws, while national corporate & small business presence have negative effects on union security laws. State minimum wage laws, on the other hand, appear to be largely an intraclass issue: national labor union presence has no net effect on state minimum wage laws, national corporate presence has a positive effect, & small business presence has a negative effect. In addition, these effects of class organization on state policy do not depend on differences in state party system characteristics, nor do party variables have much independent impact on state labor market policies. However, one particular configuration of party system characteristics is found to have independent effects on state labor market policies.
