On 12 May, 2008, a devastating earthquake registering 8.0 on the Richter scale occurred in Sichuan Province, China, taking tens of thousands of lives and destroying the homes of millions of people. Many of the deceased were children, particular children less than five years old who were more vulnerable to such a huge disaster than the adult. In order to obtain information specifically relevant ...

OBJECTIVES Analysis of the evolution of colorectal cancer in Spain during the period 1951-2007 and its relationship with diet. MATERIAL AND METHODS Calculation of incidence rates, standardized mortality and years of potential life lost (world population) and per capita consumption of different foods. RESULTS Red and processed meats, poultry, fish and fruits intake has increased and consumpt...

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders has included three subgroups of pedophilic disorder based on the gender of the victim, the exclusiveness of the subject's preference for children, and whether the behavior is limited to incest. This study uses the pedophile's preference for age of victim as a means of delineating two distinct subgroups. The first group of so-called 'infa...

The purpose of this study is to develop a system to automatically generate stowage plan for large containerships. The system consists of three modules: stowage plan generator, stability module and optimization engine. This paper presents the architecture and the work of the first module stowage plan generator, which is used to automatically generate a feasible stowage plan with reasonable crane...

HKJGOM 2005; 5 (1) 40 Introduction In modern days, birth control in our community has been achieved with modest success via the practice of various contraceptive methods. According to statistics from The Family Planning Association of Hong Kong (FPAHK), the contraceptive practice rate in Hong Kong has been maintained at above 80% since 19871. This is higher than the world average of 60%2. Famil...

Supply vessels provide offshore installations with necessary supplies on periodic basis from an onshore base according to weekly sailing plans. Each plan is built for a certain time horizon to guarantee required level of service to offshore installations at least cost. In a sailing plan several voyages are assigned to each vessel. The execution of sailing plans is affected by stochastic weather...

Some early attempts at scientific or philosophical discussion of life were apparent in Greece. For example, Thales (the earliest of the identified Greek philosophers) argued that everything stemmed ultimately from water. He therefore had a somewhat vague idea that descent with modification was possible, since things had to diversify from a common origin. Aristotle suggested that in every thing ...

C. J. Hansen (JPL), A. S. Aljabri (JPL), D. Banfield (Cornell), E. B. Bierhaus (LMA), M. Brown (CIT), J. E. Colwell (UCF), M. Dougherty (Imperial College, UK), A. R. Hendrix (JPL), A. Ingersoll (CIT), K. Khurana (UCLA), D. Landau (JPL), A. McEwen (UAz), D. A. Paige (UCLA), C. Paranicas (APL), C. M. Satter (JPL), B. Schmidt (UCLA), M. Showalter (ARC), L. J. Spilker (JPL), T. Spilker (JPL), J. St...

Charitonos, Koula and Charalampidi, Marina (2015). Designs for Heritage Language Learning: A Photography project in the UK Supplementary Education. In: Brown, Tom H. and van der Merwe, Herman J. eds. The Mobile Learning Voyage From Small Ripples to Massive Open Waters: 14th World Conference, mLearn 2015, Venice, Italy, October 17-24, 2015, Proceedings. Communications in Computer and Information...