Choosing a Prime Minister: The Transfer of Power in Britain, by Brazier, Rodney. Oxford University Press. 196 pp. £80.00 It is matter some surprise to most people that there no law providing for the existence office Minister, specifying its functions and powers, qualifications office, length tenure, method appointment removal from office. This principally because UK still lacks written constitu...

We present a new approach to selecting actively managed mutual funds that uses both portfolio holdings and fund return information eliminate with predicted inferior performance through sequence of pairwise comparisons. Our methodology determines the number skilled their identities, locates substantially higher risk-adjusted returns than those identified by conventional alpha-ranking methods. fi...

Human locomotion results from interactions between feedforward (central commands from voluntary and automatic drive) and feedback (peripheral commands from sensory inputs) mechanisms. Recent studies have shown that locomotion can be adapted when an external force is applied to the lower limb. To better understand the neural control of this adaptation, the present study investigated gait modific...

It could be hypothesized that when walking in a linear direction, the most efficient strategy would be to focus the force created by the push-off in the absolute opposite direction to the direction of propulsion. Forces in a medial or lateral direction could then be considered as loss of efficiency since these forces do not create movement in the intended direction. The aim of this study was to...

A protocol of 75 lengthening contractions (LCP) administered to skeletal muscles of mice causes an initial force deficit owing to the mechanical disruption of sarcomeres and a reduction in calcium release from the sarcoplasmic reticulum. During the 3 days following the LCP, a 'sealing off process' and inflammatory response occurs. The reactive oxygen species (ROS) released by invading inflammat...

A new approach for automated peak picking of multidimensional protein NMR spectra with strong overlap is introduced, which makes use of the program AUTOPSY (automated peak picking for NMR spectroscopy). The main elements of this program are a novel function for local noise level calculation, the use of symmetry considerations, and the use of lineshapes extracted from well-separated peaks for re...

We introduce a concept we call “mutual metainformation” as a criterion for determining the maximum statistically significant number of clusters in distributional clustering problems. In distributional clustering, one has data drawn from an ensemble of probability distributions and seeks to group similar distributions together. We focus on the case of multinomials, such as a set of biased coins ...

Objective: Trying to diagnose clinically some suggested causes of unexplained infertility related to ovum picking, fertilization, embryo growth and implantation and to outline the most suitable management needed for these cases. Design: Prospective controlled diagnostic and management study. Setting: 50 fertile cases as control. Patients: Assessment of ovum picking was determined clinically in ...