It is widely believed that anything done in the public interest is good for society and good for the individual members of society. When the 'anything' involves the health of the people, the belief is rapidly converted to doctrine. Doctrine nowadays means law.

Finding new ways for traveling at a high commercial speed, comfortable, safe, cheap and preserving as much as possible the environment by using less fuel is the new challenge for the public transport operators that run their business in the 21st century. One of the alternatives for the passengers that are using public transportation vehicles is to travel using water buses or ferries. The paper ...

A project was carried out to investigate the impact of four different weighing methods on over/ under loading of forestry trucks operating in Forestry Corporation of New South Wales under two types of roads; gazetted (approved for higher legal gross vehicle weight limits) and nongazetted (standard public road gross vehicle weight limits). For all the technologies tested, it was found that there...

1.30 4.00 PM PL_1: Opening session Chairs Dr Kamarulzaman, Dr Sohn, Dr Li & Dr Boucher PLENARY ROOM N201 1.30 PM Opening by the conference chairs Adeeba Kamarulzaman, MBBS, FRACP, University of Malaya, Malaysia Annette Sohn, MD, TREAT Asia, amfAR, Thailand Charles Boucher, MD, PhD, Erasmus Medical Center, The Netherlands Patrick Chung-Ki Li, MBBS, FHKCP, FHKAM, FRCP, Hong Kong Sanatorium and Ho...

This paper presents the results of an experimental program carried out on slender elliptical hollow section columns filled with concrete. Given the reduced number of experimental results found in the literature on concrete filled tubular columns with elliptical cross-section, the main objective of this paper is to compare the behaviour of such innovative cross-sections under ambient and high te...

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It is coming to the twelfth periodical five-year plan in China. When taking national and international situation into consideration, China will be still in the strategic period full of opportunities, in which industrial reconstruction is her main task. Automobile industry is basic, mainstay and strategic .in nature. It has a large added value, a long industrial chain and is high technologies lo...

in order to identify the risk factors (predictors) of re-hospitalisation for high-risk asthmatic patients, a retrospective logistic regression analysis describing the relationship between the probability of re-admission and possible predictors in hospitalised asthmatics, aged over 5 years, between 1994-1998, was designed. study setting was a district general hospital in the west yorkshire, uk. ...

abstract the lack of water is the most important problem in extensive landscape especially turfgrass in arid and semi arid regions. the root responses in native and commercial grasses under drought stress were investigated. this experiment was in a factorial experiment based on unbalanced completely random design on the year 2006. the specious that we used in this experiment included (i) commer...

conclusions most patients are referred for restaging and demonstrate evidence of regional or distant metastasis with significant value for further treatment planning. providing insurance coverage and familiarizing referring physicians about appropriate indications of this relatively new diagnostic modality will be to the best interest of head and neck cancer patients in long term. methods we re...