Of all the risk factors for premature death, the air we breathe is one area over which patients and doctors have little control. In cities health professionals care for patients in environments where air pollution can aggravate existing illness, mostly cardiovascular and respiratory disease, and also damage children’s hearts and lungs as they develop. Today we report that more than half of 2200...

This "action paper"was discussed at the Learning First Alliance S u m m i t on Reading and Mathematics held in Washington, D.C, January 26 28, 1998. Tbe paper is the collective work o f the Learning First Alliance Board o f Directors. It has been inf o r m e d by m a n y distinguished experts in reading. We are pleased to acknowledge the assistance o f Robert Slavin, Johns Hopkins University, a...

A new method to measure nonlinear dependence between two variables is described using mutual information to analyze the separate linear and nonlinear components of dependence. This technique, which gives an exact value for the proportion of linear dependence, is then compared with another common test for linearity, the Brock, Dechert and Scheinkman (BDS) test. Copyright c © 0000 John Wiley & So...

This paper introduces a new type of intranet – the compliance intranet – and describes its socio-technical shaping. Compliance intranets serve to enforce industry standards, to measure the performance of a company against industry or governmentally established standards, or to establish standards within the organization or within a larger domain. These intranets may be quality management system...

In a survey we found that most developers have experienced duplicated bug reports, however, only few considered them as a serious problem. This contradicts popular wisdom that considers bug duplicates as a serious problem for open source projects. In the survey, developers also pointed out that the additional information provided by duplicates helps to resolve bugs quicker. In this paper, we th...

The death of Minneapolis man, George Floyd, at the hands (or, knee) a police officer in May 2020 appears to have set nation, indeed world, alight with outrage ongoing, systemic racism and brutality by officers. Body worn camera (‘BWC’) footage from officers attending this incident provides strong evidence circumstances Mr Floyd’s death. In article, we draw on criminological research analyses le...