His (the eight-tailed dragon’s) eyes are like red ground cherries; his one body has eight heads and eight tails. On his body grow moss and cypress and cryptomeria trees. His length is such that he spans eight valleys and eight mountain peaks. Then Paya-susa-no-wo-no-mikotounsheathed the sword ten hands long which he was wearing at his side, and hacked the dragon to pieces, so that the Pi river ...

BACKGROUND Radiofrequency catheter ablation (RFCA) of idiopathic ventricular arrhythmias (VAs) originating from the basal portion of the left ventricular (LV) summit, which is divided from the apical LV (A-LV) summit by the great cardiac vein (GCV), is challenging. This study investigated the efficacy of RFCA and electrocardiographic and electrophysiological characteristics of these VAs. METH...

In January 2006, the inaugural Osteopathic Heritage Foundation Medical Education Summit was held to address key issues confronting the osteopathic medical profession, particularly the physician workforce, student recruitment, and the funding of postdoctoral programs. Building off of the draft statements from the first summit, the Medical Education Summit II addressed issues specifically related...

Angular measures to point landmarks such as mountain peaks can be used to navigate through large, unstructured environments if the landmarks have been matched to a map and their left to right order in the view is known. This paper addresses the problem of ordering those landmarks. Experiments run in simulation show that simple geometric properties can often be used to order landmarks, avoiding ...

Isolated, laterally extensive, gently sloping surfaces known as summit flats are present at high elevations in many Laramide ranges, and are particularly well developed in the Uinta Mountains of northeastern Utah. To investigate the spatial distribution of these surfaces, and to consider possible controls on this pattern, a map of summit flats in the Uintas was developed from digital elevation ...

The Lowell Center for Sustainable Production has sought to engage scientists, policy-makers, advocates, and students in a broad public discussion about whether the tools and methods of environmental science and its integration in policy are adequate to address complex, highly uncertain environmental and health risks. It did so in an International Summit on Science and the Precautionary Principl...

The known algorithms for solving the conjugacy problem in Garside groups involve computing a particular subset of the conjugacy class, the so-called super summit set. The super summit set [g] of an element g in a Garside group is, intuitively, the set of all conjugates of g that have the shortest normal form in the conjugacy class of g. In this paper, we define the stable super summit set [g] o...

ON 9 MARCH 2003, during the New South Wales state election campaign, Premier Bob Carr announced that a re-elected Labor government would convene a state summit on alcohol. The 1999 NSW Drug Summit and the 2002 Obesity Summit were obvious models. The 1999 Drug Summit, also conceived during a state election campaign, was generally considered to have been successful. It developed a realistic polic...