The material is substantial, informative and complete with explanations of the physiology underlying nutrition, but still maintains readability appropriate for the general public. In addition, there is a summary and resource section at the end of each chapter to help guide those who wish to read more about a given topic, as well as useful appendices with growth charts, recommended daily allowan...

This fifth decade is the first of this new century, and simultaneously of a new Millennium according to the calendar in practice for most of us. The turn of Millennium is always a very specific time for people: it could be understood as a key point, a point of irreversibility between past and future, but also it is mainly understood as a “new era” giving the opportunity to create new situations...

E. W. Morris, FRCS, Senior Orthopaedic Registrar, Glasgow Royal Infirmary, 84 Castle Street, Glasgow G4 OSF, Scotland. J. E. Scullion, FRCS, Senior Orthopaedic Registrar, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, Foresterhill, Aberdeen, AB9 8AU, Scotland. T. S. Mann, FRCS, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Glasgow Royal Infirmary, 84 Castle Street, Glasgow, G4 OSF, Scotland. Requests for reprints should be sent ...

Pain is one of the most common symptoms, regardless of the specialty in which a patient is being treated. It should be routinely evaluated and recorded in daily clinical examination. In fact, pain has been promulgated as the ‘fifth vital sign’, in addition to the four traditional vital signs of temperature, pulse, blood pressure, and respiratory rate. As well as improving patient comfort and sa...

EPR newsletter 2007 vol.16 no.4 | 11 pelling reasons to invest in the development of modern ESR methods for applications in biophysical and biomedical research. The potential of ESR may best be evaluated by considering (1) its absolute sensitivity, (2) its spectral resolution, (3) its sensitivity to different types of molecular motion, including translation, rotation, and intermolecular relativ...

UFMC (Universal Filtered Multi-Carrier) is a novel multi-carrier transmission technique that aims to replace the OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) modulation for fifth generation (5G) wireless communication systems. UFMC, being generalization of and FBMC (Filter Bank Multicarrier), combines advantages these systems at same time avoids their main disadvantages. Using Matlab simul...