The article argues that the most important trends in the recent metamorphosis of higher education, especially of university teaching and research, cannot be understood without placing them in the context of general developments in political life. Both processes reveal alarming features and there is a link between them. In recent decades a religion has established its dominance in the public pol...

The term “landscape structure” refers to the configuration of vegetation and other land features over a large land area (usually an extent of many square kilometers). A landscape can be regarded as a mosaic composed of patches of different kinds— for example, different forest types, landforms, or human-built structures such as roads. The scientific discipline of landscape ecology is concerned w...

Understanding how desertification takes place in different ecosystems is an important step in attempting to forecast and prevent such transitions. Dryland ecosystems often exhibit patchy vegetation, which has been shown to be an important factor on the possible regime shifts that occur in arid regions in several model studies. In particular, both gradual shifts that occur by front propagation, ...

48 Journal of Managed Care Pharmacy JMCP January/February 2004 Vol. 10, No. 1 www.amcp.org ormularies have existed in various forms for nearly 100 years. Beginning as a simple list of available drugs, they have evolved into a dynamic guide for the selection and application of preferred drug therapies by pharmacists and physicians in clinical applications. Formularies have been utilized widely a...

Hemicorporectomy involves amputation of the pelvis and lower extremities by disarticulation through the lumbar spine with concomitant transection of the aorta, inferior vena cava, and spinal cord, as well as creation of conduits for diversion of the urinary and fecal streams. A review of the literature reveals that the surgical technique has been relatively unchanged since 1960. The standard an...

We present a monolithic low-power, low-noise analog front-end electroencephalogram acquisition system. It draws only 500 A from a standard 9-V battery, making it suitable for use in portable systems. Although fabricated in a standard CMOS technology, by using current feedback techniques it achieves a common mode rejection ratio of 100 dB while the total input noise referred to input is kept bel...

This paper presents the algorithm for enhancing the low quality images and videos. As during the night, the traffic is not clear from which any information can be gain. So to make these images and videos more informative the high quality background is provided to the night time video. The new technique called Frame Subtraction Based fusion (FSB) is described in detail. The proper video result i...

We explore a new dimension of fund managers' timing ability by examining whether they can time market liquidity through adjusting their portfolios'market exposure as aggregate liquidity conditions change. Using a large sample of hedge funds, we find strong evidence of liquidity timing. A bootstrap analysis suggests that top-ranked liquidity timers cannot be attributed to pure luck. In out-of-sa...

Three papers will be discussed in this section: Effective Compiler Support for Predicated Execution Using the Hyperblock, by Mahlke et al.; Disjoint Eager Execution: An Optimal Form of Speculative Execution, by Uht and Singdagi; and Selective Eager Execution on the Poly Path Architecture, by Klauser, Paithankar and Grunwald. These papers will close out the “processor front-end” section of the c...