We consider the problem of reducing the control cost associated with handling connections (or ows) in multimedia networks such as ATM or an Internet supporting RSVP. This cost lies in processing and storage; it is directly related to connection setup latency and to the maximum number of connections that a switching node can handle. We advocate a systematic grouping of connections inside the tra...

G. DISANTO, A.E. HANDEL, J.M. MORAHAN, G.C. DELUCA, S.M. KIMBALL, E. HYPPONEN, G. GIOVANNONI, G.C. EBERS and S.V. RAMAGOPALAN From the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Roosevelt Drive, Headington, Oxford, OX3 7BN, UK, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences (Clinical Neurology), University of Oxford, The West Wing, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, OX3 9DU, U...

Shabir A Madhi, University of the Witwatersrand/Medical Research Council: Respiratory and Meningeal Pathogens Research Unit; and Department of Science and Technology/National Research Foundation: Vaccine Preventable Diseases; University of the Witwatersrand. Correspondence to: Shabir A Madhi, Old Potch Road, Chris Hani-Baragwanath Hospital, Respiratory and Meningeal Pathogens Research Unit, New...

We present new near-infrared speckle interferometric observations of the young stellar object Elias 1. The emission is resolved into a narrow east-west elongated blue halo (FWHM about 0. ′′2x1. ′′0) and an unresolved core (FWHM < 0. ′′2). Previously, Kataza and Maihara (1991) had inferred an east-west elongated optically thin disk within which the NIR light is directly scattered. Adding new pie...

Spontaneous bilateral mode II shear ruptures were nucleated on faults in photoelastic Homalite plates loaded in uniaxial compression. Rupture velocities were measured and the interaction between the rupture front and short fault branches was observed using high-speed digital photography. Fault branches were formed by machining slits of varying lengths that intersected the fault plane over a ran...

Self-regulation of the professions of nursing and midwifery became a reality in South Africa on 8 November 1944, when the first council meeting of the South African Nursing C ouncil took p lace in P re to ria . M ost appropriately, the opening speaker on this occasion was Mr Harry Gordon Lawrence, the Minister of Welfare and Demobilization, who had piloted the Nursing Act, No.45 of 1944, throug...

1Department of Health Sciences, School of Medical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Postgraduate School in Occupational Medicine, University of Genoa and Medical Surveillance Unit for Health Care Workers, Occupational Medicine Unit, IRCCS San Martino Hospital, Largo R. Benzi 10, 16132 Genoa, Italy 2NIHRWellcome Trust Clinical Research Facility, University of Southampton, C Level, West Wing, Mailpoin...