The Initial Teaching Alphabet (i.t.a.), devised by Sir James Pitman as a simplified alphabet for beginning readers, consists of 44 characters plus a set of rules for standard spellings of English words using these characters. The characters and rules are designed to ensure easy transition from i.t.a. to traditional orthography (T.O.). In September 1969 the British Schools Council published a co...

This paper deals with the species of Brackionu.s plicatilis complex (Rotifera: Monogononta) found in a brackishwater lake,Veli-Aakulam, in Southern Kerala. Morphological and reproductive potential studies revealed that these rotifers have sigiificant morphological distinction with regard to ecological preferences. The three related rotifers in our study were classified as Brachionu.~ plicatilis...

As cardiovascular death remains major cause of death worldwide , there are growing needs for risk evaluation for cardiovas-cular event. Arterial stiffness, which refers to the rigidity of arterial wall, increases in the elderly person as well as patients with atherosclerotic disease. Based on the belief that increased vascular stiffness precedes atherosclerotic vascular event, there were attemp...

To the Editor: In response to the Letter by Eross et al. (1): we appreciate their comments on our work with glycated hemoglobin (gHb) from blood samples dried on filter paper (2, 3) but we believe that some important points in our paper were missed. We, too, have had extensive experience with the thiobarbituric acid (TBA) method (4-7) and have used it with blood samples dried on glucose oxidase...

This brief article describes a __ssion with a client utilizing a device known as the Electromyometer (EMG) and biofeedback processes. The author explaios how his procedure encompasses aspects of Dynamic Psychotherapy, which is a therapeutic approach:utilizing ,galvanic skin resistance in psychotherapy, and ENG which has been 'primarily.used on retiromuscular retraining by the detection of infin...

bit strings can aaord important advantages. Third, limiting each string to one oospring per generation can increase success rates over unlimited reproduction. Fourth, certain kinds of premature convergence in GAs are artifacts of the impoverished environments in which they are tested. More speciically; insertion of introns was demonstrated to produce as much as a tenfold increase in successful ...

'… if we could successfully intervene and change a woman's age at first birth and n oth in g else about her up to that point'? 1 Scally argu es th at we do n ot deal with th e m u ch m ore im port-an t issu es of th e edu cation al an d social effects of early m oth er-h ood an d focu s on a n arrow m edical defin ition of pu blic h ealth. We wou ld argu e th at we deal prim arily with th e det...

associated with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: report of two cases. The liver in systemic lupus erythematosus: pathological analysis of 52 cases and review of Japanese autopsy registry data. Hum Pathol. In press. Sir: The article of Cooper et al, on repro-ducibility of radiological assessment of the knee joint in osteoarthritis,' considers a subject integral to the science of rheumatology. The ...

Is this issue of the journal, Kim et al. 1) aimed to explain the association between epicardial fat thickness (EFT) and neutro-phil to lymphocyte ratio (NLR) as systemic inflammatory markers in hypertensive patients according to diurnal variation of blood pressure (BP). They concluded that EFT and NLR are independently associated with impaired diurnal variation of BP in hypertensive patients. R...