Bali is a fascinating island. Within one cultural sphere major contrasts exist side by side and form as such an ideal laboratory for anthropological research. Only a few hours drive from the centre of globalized tourism at Kuta beach, which was in October 2002 hit by a terrorist attack, one can find in the mountain area of inland Bali ancient temple systems and ritual networks which date back t...

altitude,89 and neurotransmitter depletion'0 and membrane depolarisation" may occur. Fluid shifts'213 and endocrine changes'4 are described, but whether they are cause or effect is not clearly established. Acute mountain sickness usually occurs during the first few days at altitude, before respiratory acclimatisation is complete.'5 During this time renal and perhaps other mechanisms partly corr...

the aim of this paper is to develop a systematic method to analyze the effects of forming parameters on the quality of part formability and determine the optimal combination of the forming parameters for the sheet hydroforming process. in this paper, the effects of four important process parameters namely fluid pressure, friction coefficient at blank/punch interface, gap between die rim block a...

In this paper, we are concerned with the detection and tracking of a target in TBD context. We propose here an efficient particle filter based on a relevant proposal density justified by radar detection considerations. This filter performs well compared to the classical laws used in the literature, especially in terms of speed of convergence for detection. We also identify a minimum number of p...

We study 6,686 IPOs spanning the period 1981-2005 and find that the new issues puzzle disappears in a Fama-French three-factor framework. IPOs do not underperform in the aftermarket on a risk-adjusted basis and do not underperform a matched sample of non-issuers. IPO underperformance is concentrated in the 1980’s and early 1990’s, and IPO’s either perform the same as the market, or outperform o...

We show that a one-sector real business cycle model with mild increasing returns-toscale and variable capital utilization is able to produce qualitatively realistic business cycles driven solely by aggregate demand shocks. In particular, a positive government spending shock can lead to simultaneous increases in output, consumption, investment, employment, labor productivity and the real wage. O...

The mountain pygmy possum (Burramys parvus) is an endangered marsupial restricted to boulder fields in the Australian Alps, where it hibernates under the snow during winter. Understanding its habitat requirements is essential for conservation, so we examine here ecological implications of the thermal consequences of maintaining water balance during the hibernation season. Hibernating mountain p...

The catastrophic earthquake, 7.3 on the Richter scale, occurred on September 21, 1999. The 921 Earthquake was a terrifying disaster that caused numerous casualties in Central Taiwan. It is the severest earthquake in a recent hundred years. The land morphology and topography changed greatly with such features as land upheaval, river blockades and lakes dammed by debris in many locations. Severe ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the therapeutic efficacy of a portable hyperbaric chamber for treatment of acute mountain sickness. DESIGN Controlled randomised trial over two mountaineering seasons. SETTING High altitude research laboratory at 4559 m above sea level. SUBJECTS 64 climbers with acute mountain sickness randomly allocated to different treatments. INTERVENTIONS One hour of treatment ...