Two homologous series of cyclically twinned sulphosalt structures are defined in the present paper, with different atomic configurations around the site of sixand threefold axes. The zinckenite homologous series, M6+x+N(N+S) A12+N(N+7), contains zinckenite, a Pb-Sb sulphosalt, and sulphohalogenides of Bi and Pb. The Ba Bi sulphide homologous series, M12+x+N(N+S) A18+N(N+7), contains complex sul...

THERMUS is a package of C++ classes and functions allowing statistical-thermal model analyses of particle production in relativistic heavy-ion collisions to be performed within the ROOT framework of analysis. Calculations are possible within three statistical ensembles; a grand-canonical treatment of the conserved charges B, S and Q, a fully canonical treatment of the conserved charges, and a m...

BACKGROUND Childbirth fear is reported to affect around 20% of women. However reporting on levels of symptom severity vary. Unlike Scandinavian countries, there has been limited focus on childbirth fear in Australia. The aim of this paper is to determine the prevalence of low, moderate, high and severe levels of childbirth fear in a large representative sample of pregnant women drawn from a lar...

China’s emergence as a global economic player has been accompanied by a major internal transformation described in a new World Bank/IFC publication.** Over the past decade, the economy has made the transition from complete reliance on state-owned and collective enterprise to a mixed economy where private enterprise plays a leading role. This is an ongoing process, during which the economy will ...

This article compares the social settings and teaching organization of two differently structured childbirth education courses in Cagliari, Italy, in order to understand how social processes and contexts work to negotiate authoritative knowledge. Although the explicit goal of both courses was to transmit biomedical knowledge, knowledge based in women's experience nonetheless dominated some cour...

In this paper, the prosodic realization of focus in six languages/dialects in China were experimentally investigated, which were Yi and Tibetan (TibetanBurma), Wa and Deang (Mon-Khmer), Uygur (Turkic) and Nanchang dialect (Gan), all spoken in China. Tibetan, Uygur and Nanchang showed onfocus F0 raising and post-focus F0 compression (PFC) whereas no clear F0 variation due to focus was found in W...

SUPERTYPE OF (IfcProxy) SUBTYPE OF (IfcObject); ObjectPlacement : OPTIONAL IfcObjectPlacement; Representation : OPTIONAL IfcProductRepresentation;

This article describes X-NIndex, a novel approach for large XML documents with stable structure. The definition for the large XML document with stable struct ure is given while the concept of XML document tree coordinate(X-DTC) is introduced. The significant advantage of X-NIndex to other XML query schemas is shown and the experimental results are present.

This article is divided into two parts. In the first part, we prove some useful theorems on finite topological spaces. In the second part, in order to consider a family of neighborhoods to a point in a space, we extend the notion of finite topological space and define a new topological space, which we call formal topological space. We show the relation between formal topological space struct (F...