Our local theatre is putting on 'relaxed performances' of its pantomime this season, for people with conditions such as dementia and autism.

In sickle cell anemia (SCA), the loss of reticuloendothelial function is the result of vasoocclusive events occurring in the spleen. Such asplenia occurs early in the course of the disease and is considered to be permanent in late childhood. In this report, three patients 10, 11, and 14 years of age suffering from severe SCA and found to be asplenic were treated by bone marrow transplantation (...

Effective and safe vaccines against lumpy skin disease (LSD) are already commercially available. Large-scale vaccination combined with other appropriate control measures, can eliminate the outbreaks. In the absence of appropriate DIVA vaccines, carrying out preventive vaccination against LSDV in disease free but at-high risk countries, inflicts heavy export restrictions on live cattle and their...

This note is a response to an unpublished paper by Evans and Thomas (1998) of which we have recently become aware. Evans and Thomas (1998) take issue with a paper that we published some years back on ‘Cooperation and Effective Computability’ in repeated games (Anderlini and Sabourian 1995). In that paper we showed that it is only the cooperative equilibria of an infinitely repeated two-player c...

In broadband wireless networks, providing Quality of Service (QoS) support for multimedia traffics is no doubt crucial to many application requirements such as real-time audio and video streaming communications. IEEE 802.11e Medium Access Control (MAC) standard proposes Hybrid Coordination Function (HCF), which is composed of HCF Controlled Channel Access (HCCA) and Enhanced Distributed Channel...

Algorithmic logic is the logic of basic statements concerning algorithms and the algorithmic rules of deduction between such statements. It is a type-free logic capable of significant self-reference. Because of its expressive strength, traditional rules of logic are not necessarily valid. As shown in [1], the threat of paradoxes, such as the Curry paradox, requires care in implementing rules of...