Seventeen cases of precordial "catch" are reported. The children varied in age from 8 to 16 years. The characteristics of this painful condition are discussed; in particular, the diagnostic indication of the site of the pain over an intercostal space, with the finger tip, is stressed. Anxiety in the child, or the parents, in relation to the complaint is discussed. Several methods of treatment a...

Work on text summarization for DUC 2007 at the University of Ottawa continued along the lines established in recent years. We participated in the associated Pyramid evaluation effort now entrusted to the broader research community, expanding our corpus of SCU-marked documents by the 23 topics annotated this year to a total of 70. For the first time our summarization system made direct use of th...

To catch a thief, spy, money launderer, insider trader, tax evader, narcotics trafficker or anyone exhibiting patterns of "noncompliant" behavior can be effectively performed using a combination of strategic (proactive) and tactical (reactive) analytical techniques. The exact definition of a noncompliant pattern will vary according to the activities occurring within the domain for which it is b...

Stock assessment model was so called effort-controlled version of the ISVPA-group of separable cohort models (for details of the model see appendix and references to it). This version of the model attributes residuals in cohort part of the model to errors in catch-at-age data, assuming that selection pattern (patterns) is stable. This version is often more robust for noisy catch-at-age data. Ad...

It has been established that rapid, pulse-like increases in precision grip forces ("catch-up responses") are elicited by unexpected translational perturbations and that response latency and strength scale according to the direction of linear slip relative to the hand as well as gravity. To determine if catch-up responses are elicited by unexpected rotational perturbations and are strength-, axi...

The Indianmeal moth, Plodia interpunctella (Hübner), was selected as a representative stored-product moth to test the validity of contour mapping of trap catch for pest monitoring in warehouses and retail stores. Three experiments, each replicated five times, were conducted in a 3.2 by 9.0-m aluminum shed. Each experiment involved placing pupae at a single release point (source) and recording t...

This seminal paper provides global empirical evidence on catch-up processes in scientific and technical publications. Its purpose is to model the future of scientific knowledge monopoly in order to understand whether the impressive growth experienced by latecomers in the industry has been accompanied by a similar catch-up in scientific capabilities and knowledge contribution. The empirical evid...

The agricultural sector is a primary driver of nitrogen (N) pollution. Several European and German policy measures exist regulating N inputs fostering mitigation in crop management. Life cycle assessment (LCA) an established tool for assessing environmental impacts which are also broadly applied production systems evaluation management strategies. However, due to the multiple spatial temporal p...

The catch/throw mechanism in Common Lisp provides a simple control mechanism for non-local exit. We study typed calculi by Nakano and Sato which formalize the catch/throw mechanism. These calculi correspond to classical logic through the Curry-Howard isomorphism, and one of their characteristic points is that they have nondeterministic reduction rules. These calculi can represent various comput...

Declines of marine megafauna due to fisheries by-catch are thought to be mitigated by exclusion devices that release nontarget species. However, exclusion devices may instead conceal negative effects associated with by-catch caused by fisheries (i.e., unobserved or discarded by-catch with low postrelease survival or reproduction). We show that the decline of the endangered New Zealand (NZ) sea ...