The head mistress of a Secondary Modern School for girls had the good idea of organising a school party each year at the end of the summer term, the guests to be the pupils about to move up to ^e Senior school and the leavers to act as hostesses. It is difficult to tell which group derives the greater benefit, the 15-year-olds proudly showing the "little ones" around and enjoying their own uttp...

The global burden of non-communicable diseases is rising, with continued projected increases in the prevalence metabolic syndrome (MetS) future. This epidemic, albeit a nature, poses broad socioeconomic and healthcare burdens worldwide. Population health improvement optimisation are important to addressing these burdens. Modelling systems be more health-centric—in addition being disease-centric...

Network Monitoring is a complex activity that is based on the coordination among distinct local activities: those that use monitoring results, those that implement monitoring activity, and other that act as intermediaries. We illustrate a comprehensive view of a Network Monitoring Architecture, starting from the demands of security and scalability, and define, to give a practical perspective to...

With the advancement of wireless sensor network technology, its practical utilization is becoming an important challange. This paper overviews my past environmental monitoring project, and discusses the process of starting the monitoring by classifying it into four steps. The steps to start environmental monitoring can be complicated, but not well discussed by researchers of wireless sensor net...

abstract background and objective: pain relief during labour is an important determinant of a women’s birth experience. there are numerous pain relief techniques which can be used either with or without pain medication. the aim of our study was to compare the effect of remifentanil alone and its effect in pain relief while using with ketamine during labour. methods: after obtaining informed con...