Objective: To increase the positive and mitigate the negative health impacts of the mayor’s draft transport strategy for London. Design: A rapid prospective health impact assessment (HIA) of the penultimate draft of the strategy, using a review commissioned by the regional director of public health; an appraisal of congestion charging; and a participatory workshop. Two audits of changes were pe...

The focus of the study is two-fold: 1) to determine how much phonemic material must be considered in predicting nominal gender in Spanish; 2) to determine if gender assignment can be considered an analogical process. A database of Spanish nouns extracted from a frequency dictionary serves as the database for the present study, while the phonemic make up and syllable structure of the penultimate...

Dagaare (Gur) is a two-tone language of northwestern Ghana with approximately 1,000,000 native speakers. Most of the canonical disyllabic nominals fall into three tonal classes: L-H, H-L and H-H. In the rst two, the second tone is a polarity tone: a su x assumes the opposite tone to that of the root. L-L is systematically absent. Based on our primary descriptive work, supplemented by the eldnot...

8 speakers of American English produced utterances consisting of one to five disyllables ([bábe] or [pápe]). Vowel and stop closure intervals were defined by variations in supraglottal pressure, sensed through a thin tube inserted in the mouth. Closure was always longer for /p/ than /b/ in utterance-medial positions. In utterance-initial position, however, /b/ lengthened more than /p/ so that n...

The teratogenicity of rabbit anti-rat visceral yolk-sac antiserum, injected into pregnant rats at either 8-5 or 9-5 days of gestation, has been confirmed. Normal rabbit serum was found not to be teratogenic. When conceptuses from 9-5-day pregnant rats were cultured for 48 h in heat-denatured homologous serum, to which antiserum was added for the final (or the penultimate) 6 h of culture, embryo...

BACKGROUND Descending kerbs during locomotion involves the regulation of appropriate foot placement before the kerb-edge and foot clearance over it. It also involves the modulation of gait output to ensure the body-mass is safely and smoothly lowered to the new level. Previous research has shown that vision is used in such adaptive gait tasks for feedforward planning, with vision from the lower...

Basic life support (BLS) and even advanced cardiac life support (ACLS) should be an integral and mandatory component of the undergraduate curriculum in all local medical schools’, perhaps for students in their penultimate or final year. Refresher courses and periodic mandatory recertification however is necessary to avoid de-skilling. Simply increasing the period of housemanship training alone ...

(Penultimate Version; final version forthcoming in Erkenntnis) Sara Bernstein Nonreductionists about minds and material objects think they have faced down the challenges posed by widespread causal overdetermination. Famously, Kim attacked nonreductive physicalism about the mental on the grounds that it would involve ubiquitous overdetermination of physical effects by mental and physical propert...