There is an aura about sessions such as this which suggests analogies to a fraternity initiation. Given that, one of the first questions the discussant must ask himself is where his discussion stands in relation to "Hell Week." All of us, I believe, would agree that "Hell Week" is the responsibility of the pledge trainer, or dissertation adviser in this case. If "Hell Week" is over, is the disc...

This paper presents a novel approach to the robust solution of optimal impulsive control problems under aleatory and epistemic uncertainty. The uses belief Markov decision processes reformulate problem in terms uncertainty distributions, called beliefs, rather than realizations system states. formulation leads definition where cost function constraints are functions distributions. encompasses o...

Calf rotavirus was cultivated and propagated in tissue culture from faeces of 3-week-old calves suffering from severe diarrhoea. Criteria for viral involvement were: production of cytopathic effect in primary foetal calf kidney cells, specific fluorescence, and identification of the agent by means of electron microscopy. In a limited serological survey the majority of the cows on an infested fa...

National Vocational Qualifications (NVQs) were developed out of a plethora of initiatives implemented between 1960 and 1990. The format of NVQs was initially based on a hierarchical task analysis of job functions within the hospitality and catering industry, conducted as part of the CATERBASE project, which was commissioned by the Manpower Services Commission in the mid-1980s. This issues paper...

An algebraic construction for constant dimension subspace codes is called orbit code. It arises as the orbits under the action of a subgroup of the general linear group on subspaces in an ambient space. In particular orbit codes of a Singer subgroup of the general linear group has investigated recently. In this paper, we consider the normalizer of a Singer subgroup of the general linear group a...

"The idea that phthisis is a self-propagated zymotic disease, and that all the leading phenomena of its distribution may be explained by supposing that it is disseminated through society by specific germs contained in the tuberculous matter cast off by persons already suffering from the disease, first came to my mind, unbidden, so to speak, while I was walking on the Observatory Hill at Clifton...

A 13 year-old boy crashed into a car while riding his bicycle and his right face and orbit were traumatized, then immediately globe extruded completely, his outward appearance was terrible when he was hospitalized, and the vision was NLP. Optic nerve, muscles, and all vessels and nerves were in severe stretching and the globe was at risk of ischemia and necrosis. I.V. corticosteroid, antibiotic...

This paper examines institutional and regulatory aspects of sustainable transport from a cross-national perspective. While institutions appear to play an important role in the economic success of many countries, it is not so clear that they also support sustainable development. A number of examples of the role of institutions in transport are discussed. Particular attention is focused among oth...