CORRESPONDENCE 548 However, I note that you adopted statements from Jimmy Carter and Larry King as definitive comment regarding Israel's culpability. You also use extreme leftist group opinion in Israel to support your argument. Your report is unbalanced and one-sided, totally lacking factual information on what took place on the ground, and has nothing to do with the practice of medicine. You ...

Health Secretary, threw the phrase " children's trusts " into the arena of public debate when he addressed a national social services conference in Cardiff on 16 October 2002. He said: " I intend to create specialist children's trusts to jointly plan, commission, finance, and, where it makes sense, deliver children's services. Children's trusts which commission services will be based in local c...

constituency of the NHS is currently the subject of widespread debate. Regular contributors include specialist dermatologists, primary care commissioners, practice-based commissioners, general practitioners (GPs) with a special interest (GPwSI) in dermatology and various patient groups (eg Skin Care Campaign, National Eczema Society, Psoriasis Association). Occasional contributions are made by ...

Surrogacy is not regulated by a single legal instrument only, nor is confirmation of a surrogacy agreement by the High Court an unqualified green light for the surrogacy process to proceed. In the context of the HIV status of the commissioning father, whose gametes are to be used for the conception of the child in pursuance of a surrogacy agreement, the intended in vitro fertilisation of the su...

Many aspects of the architecture and performance requirements of the electronics system for the BABAR Experiment are similar to those for the much larger LHC experiments. We briefly describe the requirements and architecture of BABAR Electronics, focusing on aspects that are similar to the LHC. We then discuss the experience of developing the system from design to operation, including such topi...

The usage of regenerable low power sources is currently rather reduced. Utilization of some specialized softwares of SCADA type allow the operation of the low-power hydroelectric power plants in automatic regime, without local monitoring personnel, these being able to be remotely monitored and controlled. In this way, the utilization of such power plants becomes profitable. A special importance...

With the successful commissioning and achievement of significant milestones at both the 7-GeV Advanced Photon Source (APS) at Argonne National Laboratory and the 1.5-GeV Advanced Light Source (ALS) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, synchrotron radiation research capability in the United States holds the promise of many important discoveries in the decade to come. An overview of current ...

We describe the commissioning of the high-power RF stations for the PEP-II B factory. This includes in-situ testing and conditioning of components after installation, phasing of cavities within each station and between stations in each ring, capture of fist beam, stored-beam operation at lowand moderatecurrent, commissioning of feedback loops, and high-current operation. Performance of the over...

The feedback systems for controlling transverse coupled-bunch instabilities in both the high and low energy rings of the PEP-II collider are complete and installed on site. Presently, the high energy ring of the collider is beginning commissioning. The commissioning of the high energy ring transverse feedback system is expected to begin sometime in the next few weeks. Design specifications and ...