Research indicates that to effectively participate in today’s global digital information age, Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) familiarity is essential for individuals and communities. There is concern, especially amongst developed nations that advances in, and the rapid growth of, ICTs has the possibility of creating a new form of inequality among individuals. The New Zealand ...

BACKGROUND Exposure to cockroach allergen is prevalent in inner-city homes and is associated with an increased risk of cockroach sensitization. OBJECTIVE We sought to determine the prevalence of cockroach allergen exposure in suburban middle-class homes and to study its relationship to cockroach sensitization. METHODS Children with asthma, 6 to 17 years of age, were recruited from 3 pediatr...

The ancient Greek world was much troubled and influenced by politics. While other peoples settled to a single form of government, the Greeks were strungling between monarchy, oligarchy, democracy and tyranny; and while other peoples were forming empires, the Greek cities usually preferred independence, in the form of a polis, a city-state, and other times preferred to (or were forced to) join s...

English a-tensing has received numerous treatments in the phonological and sociolinguistic literature, but the question of why it occurs (i) at all and (ii) in seemingly unnatural disjunctive phonological environments has not been settled. This paper presents a novel phonetic enhancement account of a-tensing in Philadelphia, New York City and Belfast English. I propose that a-tensing is best un...

A STUDY on the extent of heroin use in a Dublin *^ South Inner City Electoral Ward during the period 1979-1985 was conducted between May and September. A total of 82 questionnaires were completed. Each respondent had a settled address in the Ward during 1979-1985. All gave a history of heroin use. The authenticity of heroin use was validated for all respondents through medical records. The exte...

When primary domestic sewage sludge was combined with settled sewage or secondary-treatment plant effluent, synergism resulted. The activity (measured by oxygen uptake, and the removal of Kjeldahl nitrogen and orthophosphate from solution) which resulted from incubating sludge together with settled sewage exceeded the sum of the activities when these components were incubated separately. A simi...