34. Non- Uniting Fractures

Temporal bone fractures in children: a review of 34 cases.

Head injuries are commonly seen in accident and emergency (A&E) departments and within this group a small proportion will have a temporal bone fracture. Thirty-four such cases were identified from a 7-year period and their case notes were reviewed. The mechanisms of injury included:falls outdoors (15 cases), falls in the home (eight cases), road traffic accidents (RTAs; seven cases), missiles (...

Uniting the Prolog Community

In his article A Wake-Up Call for the Logic Programming Community, published in the December 2007 issue of the ALP Newsletter, the first author raised concerns about the viability of the Prolog programming language in the near future. The article had a pessimistic undertone, but expressed the hope that the current evolution can be reversed by uniting the Prolog community. Now, almost a year lat...

The Uniting of Europe

Non-Union in Fractures

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Uniting to promote language access.

^ ^ ^ ^ a l m Beach County, FL, well-known as the winter home of ^ ^ V s o m e of our country's wealthiest families, is p o m e t i m e s called the "golf capital of the world." But there is I a lesser-known side to this county of 1.3 million residents, in which 15 percent of the children live in poverty and nearly 19 percent of all residents are uninsured. Because many Palm Beach Countians are...