On 24-25 July 2000, the Bank held a conference on ‘The Australian Economy in the 1990s’. The papers presented at the conference are available on the Bank’s web site. The conference volume, which also includes discussion of the papers and contributions from a panel session on prospects for the future, will be available on 24 October. The following is the introductory chapter of the volume by Dr ...

Bee keeping is indispensable to global food production. It is an alternate income source, especially in rural underdeveloped African settlements, and an important forest conservation incentive. However, dwindling honeybee colonies around the world are attributed to pests and diseases whose spatial distribution and influences are not well established. In this study, we used remotely sensed data ...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Factors that lead to periprosthetic bone loss following total hip arthroplasty (THA) may not only depend on biomechanical implant-related factors, but also on various patient-related factors. We investigated the association between early changes in periprosthetic bone mineral density (BMD) and patient-related factors. PATIENTS AND METHODS 39 female patients underwent ce...

this paper has the aim of investigating Wolfgang Gruen’s contribution to epistemological development Religious Education in Minas Gerais state. For this, I have initially sought understand Gruen as a historical subject, detail his anthropological Teaching proposal and, then, identify influence on formulation Reference Curriculum, regional adaptation National Common Curriculum Base (Base Naciona...

Marije Bosch ([email protected]) Joanne E McKenzie ([email protected]) Duncan Mortimer ([email protected]) Emma J Tavender ([email protected]) Jill J Francis ([email protected]) Sue E Brennan ([email protected]) Jonathan C Knott ([email protected]) Jennie L Ponsford ([email protected]) Andrew Pearce ([email protected]) Den...

On 27–28 May, the Reserve Bank and Australian Treasury hosted a G-20 conference on ‘Globalisation, Living Standards and Inequality: Recent Progress and Continuing Challenges’. The papers presented at the conference are available on the Bank’s website. The conference volume, which includes revised papers and discussion, was released on 16 September. The following is the introductory chapter of t...

The extraction of roads from digital images has drawn considerable attention lately. The existing approaches cover a wide variety of strategies, using different resolution aerial or satellite images. Overviews can be found in GRUEN et al. (1995, 1997) and FOERSTNER & PLUEMER (1997). Semi-automatic schemes require human interaction to provide interactively some information to control the extract...

A risk assessment of vegetation zone responses to climate change was conducted using the classical Holdridge life zone model on the Loess Plateau of Northwest China. The results show that there are currently ten vegetation zones occurring on the Loess Plateau (1950–2000), including alvar desert, alpine wet tundra, alpine rain tundra, boreal moist forest, boreal wet forest, cool temperate desert...

We undertook a randomised prospective follow-up study of changes in peri-prosthetic bone mineral density (BMD) after hip resurfacing and compared them with the results after total hip replacement. A total of 59 patients were allocated to receive a hip resurfacing (n = 29) or an uncemented distally fixed total hip replacement (n = 30). The BMD was prospectively determined in four separate region...

P. Moody D. Gruen M. J. Muller J. Tang T. P. Moran In this paper, we describe the vision behind the Unified Activity Management project at IBM Research. In particular, we describe and discuss activities, activity-centered computing, and activity patterns and illustrate the potential impact of this approach and its value to individuals, teams, and the enterprise. We discuss business activities a...