A research project into large group decision-making in a New England Town Meeting surprised us with the degree to which sustainability came to be the axis around which political debate revolved. We identified two very different yet overlapping conceptions of sustainability: one emphasized fiscal responsibility; the other asserted the merits of environmental stewardship. Each of the two concepti...

OBJECTIVE In this study the changes in attitude of midwives towards their work following completion of the Maternal Care Manual of the Perinatal Education Programme (PEP), were determined. METHOD A prospective, controlled trial was performed in a study, and two control towns in a region where PEP had not previously been used. All midwives caring for pregnant women in the three towns were incl...

Public Health Foundation of India, New Delhi, India, Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, Health Policy and Systems Division, School of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa and Health Economics and Systems Analysis Group, Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygien...

1 EPhysLab, Departamento de Física Aplicada, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidade de Vigo, Ourense, Spain, 2 Departamento de Geofísica y Meteorología, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, 3 Instituto de Geociencias, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, 4 Department of Oceanography, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South...

The construction of highway bypasses has resulted in many economic benefits both for intercity motorists as well as residents of towns with bypasses. Despite the benefits of bypasses, they remain controversial. Local business owners in the town being bypassed fear that the reduction of traffic passing through the town will adversely affect their sales. The purpose of this study is to add to the...

Spherical t-designs on the unit sphere S ⊂ R, introduced by Delsarte, Goethals, and Seidel (1977), are equal weight numerical integration rules that are exact for all polynomials of degree at most t on S. This talk considers the calculation and properties of of spherical t-designs, in particular for S where most applications reside. Bondarenko, Radchenko, and Viazovska (2013) proved that there ...

Dead and dying oak (Quercus) and numerous other woody ornamental trees and shrubs showing signs and symptoms of Armillaria root rot were identified in the Company Gardens, Cape Town, South Africa, which were established in the mid-1600s by the Dutch East Indies Trading Company. Nineteen isolates from dying trees or from mushrooms were collected and analysed to identify and characterize the Armi...