... reads: Where the love of man is, there is also the love of art He founded the science of gynecology was honored in all lands and died with the benediction of mankind The first surgeon ofthe ages ... including the iron cross from Germany, the order ofthe knights ofthe legion of honor from France, and he was also honored by the governments of Italy, Spain, and Portugal He was an honorary member of ... monarchs such as the Empress of France, Scotland’s Duchess of Hamilton, andthe Empress of Austria He served as president ofthe American Medical Association in 1876, president ofthe International...
... addition, there is no accurate estimate on the size ofthe contaminated land andthe number of mines laid in it Humanitarian Demining andthe Challenge of Technology The diversity ofthe mine ... Innovative Solutions andtheChallengesof Technology of terrains and environmental conditions in which mines are laid and because ofthe wide variety of landmines There is wide range of terrains (rocky, ... Standards (IMAS) The amount of time it takes to clear an area is less important than the safety ofthe clearance personnel andthe reliability and accuracy ofthe demining process Safety is of...
... addition, there is no accurate estimate on the size ofthe contaminated land andthe number of mines laid in it Humanitarian Demining andthe Challenge of Technology The diversity ofthe mine ... Innovative Solutions andtheChallengesof Technology of terrains and environmental conditions in which mines are laid and because ofthe wide variety of landmines There is wide range of terrains (rocky, ... Standards (IMAS) The amount of time it takes to clear an area is less important than the safety ofthe clearance personnel andthe reliability and accuracy ofthe demining process Safety is of...
... science ofthe seventeenth century is not the science of today, it laid the foundations for the study ofthe cosmos, matter, motion, life processes, andthe means of acquiring knowledge of them ... of science were the German states, England, France, the Low Countries, andthe Duchy of Tuscany andthe Republic of Venice in Italy In the course of those two centuries the trend within all these ... Watershed In the course ofthe sixteenth century there evolved changing attitudes about nature, the development of technology andthe crafts, andthe importance of observation and mathematics The most...
... minutes after the PEEP change and just before the EELV measurement to avoid any influence ofthe step change in Fio2 required for the nitrogen wash-out/washin test At the time ofthe EELV measurement, ... (0, 5, and 10 cmH2O) In their study, at a PEEP of cmH2O the measured EELV values were 2.5 l and 1.5 l in the postoperative and ALI groups, respectively We found comparable EELV data for the similarly ... OF, Peslin R, Yernault JC: Lung volumes and forced ventilatory flows Report Working Party Standardization of Lung Function Tests, European Community for Steel and Coal Official Statement of the...
... Figure Correlation between change in EELV and change in dynamic compliance Data are presented as the difference between the lowest PEEP level (5 cmH2O) and 10 or 15 cmH2O PEEP Patients in group ... different types of lung conditions at three PEEP levels Patients in group N had normal lungs, those in group P had a primary lung disorder, and those in group S had a secondary lung disorder Values are ... P had a primary lung disorder, and those in group S had a secondary lung disorder EELV, end-expiratory lung volume; PEEP, positive end-expiratory pressure Page of (page number not for citation...
... evidence is the lack of rigour and generalisability Furthermore, the magnitude ofthe effect ofthe MET may be influenced by institution-specific administrative features and policies Buist and coworkers ... of centres Before -and- after studies lack rigour and generalisability they are In the words ofthe slogan ofthe American Society of Critical Care Medicine, we need to deliver the ‘right care, ... Figure The effect of delay in medical emergency team (MET) calls on mortality in two cohorts of patients at the start of an MET program and years later *p
... account for the diversity oflife in the biosphere, it is generally recognized that the origin oflife is one ofthe great unsolved mysteries in science (Radetsky1992; Wade 2000) At the heart of this ... described by the Second Law of Thermodynamics For them, the origin oflife is nothing more or less than the emergence of sufficient biological information to enable a system of biopolymers to (1) store ... oflife appears to be its capacity, through the use of information, to survive and exist in a nonequilibrium state, resisting the pull toward equilibrium that is described by the Second Law of...
... on the tennis courts next to their condo Most ofthe guests knew and liked Susie Always the star ofthe Pool Party, she sang old-fashioned standards by the light of tiki torches in front ofthe ... distant husband and father He worked at the office all day, then read the Congressional Record and legislative materials all evening He spent Saturdays at the office and often returned there on ... middle ofthe worst drought ofthe twentieth century, Midwesterners took refuge in their homes as grit sandblasted the paint and pitted the glass on their automobiles Leila swept red dust off the...
... the nucleus The number of protons in a nucleus gives its atomic number and its positive charge Add the number of neutrons and you have the atomic mass The nucleus ofthe most common isotope of ... consequence ofthe physical laws of our universe andthe subatomic structure ofthe oxygen atom As we shall see in Chap 2, the existence of oxygen atoms is in turn a necessary result ofthe evolution of ... concentration of protons: pH ¼ À log ½Hþ : Thus, the higher the pH value, the lower the proton concentration and therefore the degree of dissociation of water This behavior of water depends strongly on the...
... realm ofthe will andthe conditions ofthe worldly interaction of things, or rather, between the nature ofthe will andthe principles on which the understanding synthesises the world of appearances ... throughout the period of my research, and for the patience and professionalism ofthe staff there Also to the librarians and staff ofthe Albert Sloman Library, University of Essex, andthe libraries ... systems and notions ofthe structure ofthe world itself, nor ofthe constructive input of humankind as the agent of such organised knowledge But at the end ofthe eighteenth century, the argument...
... manner, the dark blood dripping on the steps and spattering the body ofthe wagon andthe trousers ofthe policemen standing on the step MOB BRUTALITY The brutality ofthe mob was further shown by the ... Streets, andthe Negro, flying with the speed ofthe wind along the top ofthe cars, reached the first car ofthe train and jumped to the tender and then into the cab As he did several white men standing ... in the above locality The women saw the two men making an apparent inspection ofthe building As they told the story, they saw the men look over the fence and examine the window blinds, and they...
... the effect of neighborhoods on the health ofthe elderly These include detailed measures of health and socioeconomic status and large sample sizes The HRS has a large number of near elderly and ... presence of drug related paraphernalia, condoms, beer, or liquor containers in the streets; rating of most ofthe housing units in the face block; and general rating ofthe condition ofthe street There ... respondents in the HRS, with a standard deviation of 10.9% In the PSID the mean is 12.6% with a standard deviation of 10.8% Similar variation exists in other aspects ofthe social and economic...
... know the highest of concepts andthe hidden part of reality This is the stage ofthe evolution of desires that humanity has reached today This is the background for the appearance ofthe wisdom of ... and they wrote books about what they discovered When Kabbalists first sense the complete reality, they call it the opening ofthe eyes.” The opening ofthe eyes is a process of climbing up the ... receive both the Light that comes from the Creator, andthe pleasure of having the status ofthe Giver, it begins to see the oppositeness of its own attributes from those ofthe Light The will to...
... expresses the duality of our wonder at the beauty ofthe organisms themselves, and at the new view oflife that they have inspired _Opabinia_ and company constituted the strange and wonderful lifeof ... PROBLEMS OFTHE BURGESS SHALE -the ORIGIN OFTHE BURGESS FAUNA -the DECIMATION OFTHE BURGESS FAUNA CHAPTER IV Walcott's Vision andthe Nature of History -the BASIS FOR WALCOTT'S ALLEGIANCE TO THE ... -EVOLUTION OFTHE EUKARYOTIC CELL -the FIRST FAUNA OF MULTICELLULAR ANIMALS -the FIRST FAUNA OFTHE CAMBRIAN EXPLOSION -the SUBSEQUENT CAMBRIAN ORIGIN OFTHEMODERN FAUNA -the ORIGIN OF TERRESTRIAL...
... antelope, the wing ofthe eagle, the shape ofthe orchid, the diversity of species, and all the other occasions for wonder in the world of nature It is hard to believe that something as mindless and ... so reassuring a vision of life! And then along comes Darwin and spoils the picnic Or does he? That is the topic of this book From the moment ofthe publication of Origin of Species in 1859, Charles ... get their power from one ofthe deepest features of Darwin's discovery THE PRINCIPLE OFTHE ACCUMULATION OF DESIGN The key to understanding Darwin's contribution is granting the premise of the...
... fixture of Middle Eastern life From a local dispute in the 1920s and ’30s, it had expanded in the 1940s to engulf the region and then, in the ’50s, the world The context of inter-Arab and Great ... the 1936 Arab revolt against both the Jews andthe British The insurrection lasted three years and resulted in the deportation of much ofthe Palestinian Arabs’ leadership andthe weakening of ... Israel there were joint offensive plans almost certain to provoke it—in short, all ofthe liabilities and none ofthe advantages of unity Even the sole accomplishment of note, the creation of the...
... China, and many of these convey an underlying and highly robust non-Cartesian, non-materialist vision ofthe integration ofthe somatic, the symbolic, the spiritual, andthe social.3 Another similarity, ... understand them They overlap and often contradict each other They are the ongoing products of long, complicated, and contested histories They are always being, at once, reproduced, redirected, and ... to analyze, on the one hand, the development of a new governmental agency and, on the other hand, a transforming and expanding sphere of difference? Should our method be that of a compartmentalizing...
... fundamentals oflifeand science, or more likely the processes by which they are constructed, could become the subject of patents.This leaves the control in the hands ofthe company filing the patent, and ... by the Department of Trade and Industry to investigate the current state of nanotechnology research and development in the UK, and produced under the chairmanship ofthe Director General ofthe ... issues as the cost of assemblers themselves, andthe necessity of companies to make profits 32 the social and economic challengesof nanotechnology Other forecasts are such claims as “Ageing, and even...