The decline in religious identification and corresponding increase in the unaffiliated has been one of the most important religious changes in the United Kingdom (UK). The emergence of the “religious nones” is the most obvious sign of continuing secularization and the declining social and cultural relevance of religion. Yet while the religiously-unaffiliated often form the plurality — if not so...

a comparison of various health statistics among sweden, the united states of america, and united kingdom reveals that the u.s. is in an inferior situation. this is traced to those acute and communicable diseases which could very easily be prevented. however medical care services require money and this money due to the nature of health care system in the u.s. has to come from the patients. while...

in a structural analysis, the “rebellion & decline” theme creates a narrative structure in which eleven stories of shāhnāmeh – equal to 3.18 per cent of the whole epic – are included, which makes it the tenth largest sequence of the shāhnāmeh. this narrative structure (sequence) consists of initial tranquillity, the king’s rebellion, his decline, and ultimate tranquillity. the epical theme of r...

Abraham A. (United Kingdom) Adolfsson L. (Sweden) Aik S. (Malaysia) Barton-Hanson N. (United Kingdom) Birkholtz F. (South Africa) Blonna D. (Italy) Bose D. (United Kingdom) Britten S. (United Kingdom) Bruce C. (United Kingdom) Burkhart K. (Germany) Chee Y. H. (Singapore) Chua Y. P. (Malaysia) Davis B. (United Kingdom) de Kiewiet G. (United Kingdom) den Hartog D. (Netherlands) Ekholm C. (Sweden)...

1University Hospital of Wales and School of Medicine, Cardiff University, United Kingdom; 2Manchester Royal Infirmary, Manchester, United Kingdom; 3Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge, United Kingdom; 4Queen’s Medical Centre, Nottingham, United Kingdom; 5Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle, United Kingdom; 6Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield, United Kingdom; 7Oxford Haemophilia Centre, United Kingdom...

Since the inception of Medicaid in 1965, the program has seen extraordinary growth in expenditures and enrollment. From 1989 to 1992, the increases in Medicaid spending were the largest since the program began in. Enrollment in Medicaid by AFDC families grew from 3.8 million in 1990 to 4.4 million in 1992, almost a nine percent annual increase (Coughlin et al. 1994). During this period, states ...

This paper investigates the approximation behaviour of the K1 oczy–Hirota (KH) interpolative fuzzy controllers. First, in accordance with the remarks in (Fuzzy Sets and Systems 125(1) (2002) 105), it is pointed out that it is a fuzzy generalization of the Shepard operator. Shepard operator has thoroughly studied by approximation theorist since the mid-1970s. Exploiting the aforementioned relati...

Abraham A. (United Kingdom) Adolfsson L. (Sweden) Aik S. (Malaysia) Blonna D. (Italy) Chua Y. P. (Malaysia) Dailiana Z. (Greece) den Hartog D. (Netherlands) Ekholm C. (Sweden) Eygendaal D. (Netherlands) Fernandes J. (United Kingdom) Graham K. (United Kingdom) Ham J. (Netherlands) Harris P. C. (Australia) Hosny G. (Egypt) Huang L. (China) Jaeger M. (Germany) James L. (United Kingdom) Kadhim M. (...

1Institute of Cancer Research, Royal Marsden Hospital, London, United Kingdom; 2Clinical Trials Research Unit, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom; 3St James’s University Hospital, Leeds, United Kingdom; 4Nottingham University Hospital, Nottingham, United Kingdom; 5Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital, Exeter, United Kingdom; 6Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, United Kingdom; 7University o...