The ability to engineer the feel and functional requirements in lightand medium-weight goods without contributing to environmental pollution makes the thennal bonding process an interesting technology of nonwoven production. The manufacturing conditions, processing pardmeters, and the characteristics of binder fibres have a large bearing on the properties of nonwoven products. Higher calender r...

BACKGROUND Several studies evaluated variations in hip fracture incidences, as well as trends of the hip fracture incidences. Comparisons of trends are lacking so far. We compared the incidence rates and, in particular, its trends between Austria and Germany 1995 to 2004 analysing national hospital discharge diagnosis register data. METHODS Annual frequencies of hip fractures and correspondin...

End-point correction " Performance pay jobs " are defined as jobs that have paid for performance at least once in the past. Thus, job matches that are observed over a longer period are more likely to be observed as PP jobs. For this reason, job matches that are observed at the beginning of the observation period in 1984 may be misclassified as non-PP jobs if they paid for performance before 198...

Myanmar is one of the top 16 countries identified by WHO as being hyperendemic for leprosy. Multi-drug therapy (MDT) was introduced in 1988 as a vertical programme and gradually integrated into the basic health services (BHS), achieving 100% coverage over the registered cases by 1995. To achieve maximum coverage of and benefit for patients, both leprosy vertical staff and BHS staff were trained...

[1] Geodetic strain and late Quaternary faulting in the Basin and Range province is distributed over a region much wider than historic seismicity, which is localized near the margins of the province. In the relatively aseismic interior, both the magnitude and direction of geodetic strain may be inconsistent with the Holocene faulting record. We document the best example of such a disagreement a...