In reoent years, a comprehensive picture of social aecwity expenditures zn the Federal Republic of Germany kaa been presented in the form of a “social report” to Parliament-a format that appears useful for presenting current aoczal welfare issues to the legialatrtrc and the public. This article gives the background of the reports and looha at those for 1970 aud 1971 in partzcular. It deacrlbea ...

In this paper, we propose a mew ECG pattern classification model based on a generic feature extraction method. The proposed classifier is applied for indicating supraventricual arrhythmia in order to verify the performance of the proposed approach. A generic approach based on a histogram of 1 derivative of signals is applied for feature extraction. Principal component analysis (PCA) is consider...

The shadow is one of the basic features of remote sensing images, especially high resolution remote sensing images, and greatly reduces the information of earth targets. The detection and compensation of shadow is important hotspot and difficulty of remote sensing image processing. In view of the present shadow detection and compensation characteristics of remote sensing image, this paper puts ...

The hypothesis of “grand unification” – namely, that the strengths of the three Standard Model (SM) gauge couplings unify at some energy scale – is not only appealing in itself, but allows also to address structural questions that in the SM remain unanswered, like the gauge quantum number assignments. This hypothesis is also supported by the measured low-energy values of the SM gauge couplings,...

HE MOST comprehensive indicator of economic performance in the nation in a given year is gross national product (CNP). Changes in CNP reflect both changes in prices and changes in the physical volume of output. CNP adjusted for price level changes is generally accepted as a reliable indicator of growth in the nation’s total production and is used by economic analysts to indicate whether the eco...

Abshaer-In this paper we reexamine and generalize research finding on the determinants af industrial innovnlion performanee using a fhreedimendoad framework. Those dimeadons *re: generality over inaovaLions, decision foeus, and managerial controltabiiy. The major determinants identified am: n) sfrateeie and ornaoizstioaal hctors includine general mnaagemml'r suppan, budncsr-project fil, and R&D...

The cat cry syndrome (cri-du-chat) was first described by Lejeune et al (1963) in a group of patients with mew-like cry and other congenital anomalies who had a partial deletion of the short arm of a B group chromosome. This partially deleted B group chromosome was subsequently found to be No. 5 by autoradiographic studies performed by German et al (1964). Other prominent manifestations of this...