The Magnetic Pen Holder ‐ A Prosthetic Device for Fine Motor Disability

This report describes a magnetic pen holder developed for the use of physically handicapped persons to help control involuntary spasms which prevent them from using a pen to write.     

Managerial Effectiveness for a New Millennium in the Global Higher Education Sector

With the global tertiary education environment undergoing some of the most rapid changes it has experienced since the 1980s, a technology-driven new millennium is requiring an unprecedented capacity for change on a number of fronts, one of these being the way managers manage. This article discusses some of the new realities facing tertiary education organizations, one of which is a realization that "knowledge capital" is the lifeline of an organization. It ultimately vests in the people whom successful organizations will lead, motivate, develop, and value in a manner sensitive to global trends of convergent social, cultural, and organizational change. This article suggests that the effective leadership of people will return as the touchstone for success, the technological age notwithstanding, and notes recent theory on increased reliance upon organizational integrity in the form of value-based policy and practice. This article draws on management and futurist theory to suggest some of the "flexibility imperatives" in managing the potentially different-looking work force of the future.     

MK-801 interferes with the acquisition of amphetamine- and lithium-induced place conditioning

The place conditioning paradigm was used to assess the ability of the noncompetitive NMDA receptor antagonist, MK-801, to interfere with drug-place associations. MK-801 (0.1 mg/kg, i.p.) attenuated a place preference produced by high, but not low to moderate, doses of amphetamine. Interference with amphetamine place preference learning was not the result of state-dependent retrieval produced by MK-801. Furthermore, MK-801 did not interfere with the expression of a previously established amphetamine place preference. Pretreatment with MK-801 also interfered with lithium-induced conditioned place aversion learning. These results suggest that the attenuation of place preference conditioning produced by MK-801 is the result of its interference with learning rather than with the rewarding properties of drugs.