BACKGROUND A community public health programme, 'Breathing Space', aimed to tackle smoking in a low income area in Scotland. This paper draws on the qualitative process evaluation of a community-based initiative 'Breathing Space', which set out to tackle smoking in a low income area of Scotland, in order to explore user perceptions of key factors affecting implementation, and in particular to e...

The Yamabe invariant Y(M) of a smooth compact manifold is roughly the supremum of the scalar curvatures of unit-volume constant-scalar-curvature Riemannian metrics g on M . (To be precise, one only considers those constant-scalar-curvature metrics which are Yamabe minimizers, but this technicality does not, e.g. affect the sign of the answer.) In this article, it is shown that many 4-manifolds ...

In past studies on the encephalic regenerative phenomena some authors adopted a pre-surgi- cal stratagem (drastic, sudden, transient thermal stimulus) to adult brain-injured newts to limit death rate upon surgery and with this method, unexpected tissue reparation was obtained. This procedure became a routine technicality also in frog and lizard to stimulate an increase in the neurogenesis, attr...

We propose a new way to obfuscate programs, using composite-order multilinear maps. Our construction operates directly on straight-line programs (arithmetic circuits), rather than converting them to matrix branching programs as in other known approaches. This yields considerable efficiency improvements. For an NC circuit of size s and depth d, with n inputs, we require only O(ds + n) multilinea...

BACKGROUND As no health system can afford to provide all possible services and treatments for the people it serves, each system must set priorities. Priority setting decision makers are increasingly involving the public in policy making. This study focuses on public engagement in a key priority setting context that plagues every health system around the world: wait list management. The purpose ...

information embedded within them are addressed. Today, a bioinformatics information system typically deals with large data sets reaching a total volume of about one terabyte [25]. Such a system serves many purposes;  User can select the data sources and assign confidence to each selected data source  It organizes existing data to facilitate complex queries  It infers relationships based on t...

Introduction. The primitive equations of the atmosphere and of the ocean have been studied, from the mathematical viewpoint, in Lions, Temam, and Wang ([6], [7]; see also [8], [9]) for the coupling of the atmosphere and the ocean. Concerning the equations of temperature, the classical methods used for the maximum principle apply to the temperature equation for the ocean but they seemingly do no...

The Yamabe invariant Y(M) of a smooth compact manifold is roughly the supremum of the scalar curvatures of unit-volume constant-scalarcurvature Riemannian metrics g on M . (To be precise, one only considers those constant-scalar-curvature metrics which are Yamabe minimizers, but this technicality does not, e.g., affect the sign of the answer.) In this article, it is shown that many 4-manifolds ...

The paper discusses the questions of judicialization politics and politicization law having as background institutional social consolidation a fascist perspective characterized anti-systemic, anti-institutional, anti-juridical infralegal juridical-political personalism, which is streamlined by implosion judiciary from inside to outside exactly law, with its direct link fratricide political-part...

The build up of the stress whose relaxation is presumed to account for pulsar frequency glitches can be attributed to various mechanisms, of which the most efficient involve differential rotation of the neutron superfluid in the inner layers of the (magnetically braked) solid crust of a rotating neutron star. In such a case it is usually supposed that the stress is attributable to pinning of su...