BACKGROUND The diagnosis of and criteria for the evaluation of asbestos-related disease impairment remains controversial after decades of research. Assessing agreement among experts who study pneumoconiosis, and diagnose and treat patients with asbestos-related respiratory conditions may be the first step in clarifying clinical and forensic/administrative issues associated with asbestos-related...

The Riemann Hypothesis (RH) is one of the seven millennium prize problems put forth by the Clay Mathematical Institute in 2000. Bombieri’s statement [Bo1] written for that occasion is excellent. My plan here is to expand on some of his comments as well as to discuss some recent developments. RH has attracted further attention of late in view of the fact that three popular books were written abo...

The learning area Life Orientation (LO) is aimed at educating healthy, responsible young people who are able to live productive lives in the new South African democracy. Effectiveness in this learning area has not yet been proved and there is evidence of some problems in attaining this ideal. In order to give voice to learners, in terms of their views, ideas and comments on LO, focus group inte...

This study presents a novel category of Transformer architectures known as comb transformers, which effectively reduce the space complexity self-attention layer from quadratic to sub-quadratic level. is achieved by processing sequence segments independently and incorporating X -word embeddings ...

The ACLAM Analgesia Task Force was appointed by ACLAM President Diane Gaertner in 2003. The charge to the Task Force was to develop guidelines that could be used by veterinarians, scientists and IACUCs in helping to provide appropriate assessment and management of pain in rodents, with the understanding that ultimately the clinical veterinarian on site at the institution must make decisions rel...

1. Tate’s theorem 2 Exercises 5 2. Introduction to group schemes 5 Definition (as a functor) 6 Definition (as a group object) 6 Examples of group schemes 8 Rank and the augmentation ideal 9 Subgroup schemes, morphisms and kernels 11 Diagonalizable group schemes 13 Constant group schemes 14 Exercises 14 3. Duality and Deligne’s theorem 16 Cartier duality 16 Deligne’s theorem 19 Exercises 22 4. É...

via the approach of islamic sociology, this article states the cause and the application of gender, vocation and property. the normal approach of islam towards the women’s vocation, the causal statement of the vocational discrimination of man and woman, the applied analysis of vocational differences of man and woman, the normal approach of islam towards women’s property as well as the statement...