Abstract: € This report aims to present an orderly approach to the treatment of Chronic Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) types I and II through an algorithm. The functional restoration: a coordinated but progressive approach that introduces each of the treatment modalities needed to achieve both remission and rehabilitation. Reaching objective and measurable rehabilitation goals is an essential el...

Urban renovation projects, which have led to the conversion of port areas through a new vision of waterfronts as elements of the potential development of the urban system in its entirety, have spread since the early 1950s and now some port cities are able to trigger some mechanisms which, even if they are the result of some processes that have been activated for decades and which are still evol...

Environmental degradation and poverty are linked, and this means that conservation and poverty reduction must be tackled together. However, finding a successful integrated strategy has been an elusive goal. We describe the career of a Chinese scholar, Shixiong Cao, whose persistent efforts to find and follow win-win paths have led to ecological restoration accompanied by long-term benefits for ...

This paper describes a decision support system based on an additive or multiplicative multiattribute utility model for identifying the optimal strategy. This is intended to allay many of the operational difficulties involved in assessing and using multiattribute utility functions. The system admits imprecise assignments for weights and utilities and uncertainty in the multiattribute strategies,...

Persistence of many desert river species is threatened by a suite of impacts linked to water infrastructure projects that provide human water security where water is scarce. Many desert rivers have undergone regime shifts from spatially and temporally dynamic ecosystems to more stable systems dominated by homogenous physical habitat. Restoration of desert river systems could aid in biodiversity...

In this paper, we present an optimization algorithm for finding the best text alignment based on the lexical similarity and the results of its evaluation as compared with baseline methods (Gale and Church, relative position). For evaluation, we use fiction texts that represent non-trivial cases of alignment. Also, we present a new method for evaluation of the algorithms of parallel texts alignm...

The Internet is being used to carry voice conversations. Sometimes the quality is acceptable, and at other times the voice is unintelligible. In this paper, we describe the results of a set of measurements on intrastate, cross country, and international Internet connections. The measurements are used to determine the relationships between the delay that is inserted to compensate for the variati...

This paper develops a framework to analyze the impacts on resource development of e cient management practices that account for possible resource conserving technological, institutional and taste changes. Compared with traditional resource management that ignores these future possibilities, e cient management may not delay or reduce resource development. Under e cient management, higher probabi...