since the 19th century, opium has been produced and consumed in the areas of asia, currently referred to as the golden crescent and the golden triangle (1). the golden crescent lies in south and southwest asia, including districts in the northwest frontier province of pakistan, the adjacent badakhshan area of afghanistan and the baluchistan area of iran. the area has been the scene of tradition...

For years it has been a matter of general agreement that there existed no such thing in English as a thoroughly satisfactory text-book upon diseases of the heart and circulation. There have long been special books to meet special requirements, but when asked to recommend some one volume for the use of advanced students or practitioners, it has been necessary to point out that all current texts ...

We are most grateful for the comments made by Earl (2014) on our paper, Frey and Gallus (2014). In particular, we are pleased that we can fully agree on the fundamental point we wanted to make: decisions by individuals (as well as by organizational units) do not map directly and in an unchanged way to the macro level. Rather, the aggregation process linking the microand the macro-level must be ...

The finding of a lump is perhaps the best indication of a hernia. A diagnosis by ultrasonography can be misleading and lead to an unnecessary operation. This introduces the question of what is an inoperable defect, as defined by size or symptoms. As to size, ultrasonography might reveal a very small finding, causing no symptoms. This is better left for ‘watchful waiting’, but the patient is bur...

The decidability of multiplicative exponential linear logic (MELL) is currently open. I show that two independently interesting refinements of MELL that alter only the syntax of proofs—leaving the underlying truth untouched— are undecidable. The first refinement uses new modal connectives between the linear and the unrestricted judgments, and the second is based on focusing with priority assign...

The interaction between economic integration and environmental policy has become an important issue in the last few years. Despite the considerable scholarly attention this topic attracted, actual government responses in terms of environmental policy outputs remain largely untouched by both theoretical and empirical work. To fill this gap, we suggest a theory-based disaggregation of the compoun...

Optimal CSMA scheduling algorithms such as QCSMA suffer from large delay, mainly due to the strong correlations residing in consecutive link schedules. Some previous works have remedied this issue with multiple instances of the scheduler, but the baseline scheduler (Q-CSMA) itself remains untouched. By noticing the inherent inefficiency in the contention mechanism of Q-CSMA, we propose LA-CSMA ...

of blood-stained froth came out through the wound, very close to the line of fracture. There was a moderate amount of haemoptysis just after the occurrence of the injury. Evidently the lung was wounded at the point where it was caught between fragments of the broken rib and through which air excaped, leaving the prolapsed portion with 110 chance ,of being inflated. Under the circumstances I tho...

From a carrier perspective, the possibility of turning a permanent connection (PC) into a soft permanent connection (SPC) and vice versa, without actually affecting data plane traffic being carried over it, is a valuable option. In other terms, such operation can be seen as a way of transferring the ownership and control of an existing and in-use data plane connection between the management pla...

After unilateral total iridectomy, maximum accommodation inducible by corneal iontophoresis of carbachol in rhesus monkeys was approximately 40% less in the iridectomized than in the contralateral untouched eyes, irrespective of age. Ultrasonographically measured anterior chamber shallowing and lens thickening were also less in the iridectomized eyes. Neither submaximal accommodation induced by...