Quasi-dynamic Analysis, Design Optimization, and Evaluation of a Two-finger Underactuated Hand M. A. Saliba and C. W. de Silva RIAL–Robotics and Industrial Automation Laboratory, Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, University of Malta, Msida, MSD 2080, Malta. E-mail: [email protected]. Corresponding author. bIndustrial Automation Laboratory, Department of Mechanical E...

Small States and Nonmaterial Power: Creating Crises and Shaping Migration Policies in Malta, Cyprus, and the European Union Cetta Mainwaring To cite this article: Cetta Mainwaring (2014) Small States and Nonmaterial Power: Creating Crises and Shaping Migration Policies in Malta, Cyprus, and the European Union, Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies, 12:2, 103-122, DOI: 10.1080/15562948.2014.909...

Vittorio Peano, Martin Houde, Florian Marquardt, and Aashish A. Clerk Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Staudtstraße 7, 91058 Erlangen, Germany Department of Physics, McGill University, 3600 rue University, Montreal, Quebec H3A 2T8, Canada Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Günther-Scharowsky-Straße 1/Bau 24, 91058 Erlangen, Germany Department of Ph...

After an intensive survey only 14 patients have been found with a diagnosis of probable multiple sclerosis (MS) in the islands of Malta. This is a low prevalence of 4.2 per 100 000. The low prevalence of MS is confirmed by the small number of deaths certified as due to MS--six in 11 years--and by the absence of Maltese MS patients resident in England among the MS patients admitted to hospital i...

This chapter discusses the capacity of public procurement workforce in Malta. It provides an overview recent efforts government Malta professionalising workforce, including recognition as a professional task. The also shows key results and takeaways from ProcurCompEU survey which was carried out with fifteen entities to identify competences that require more capability-building initiatives. ide...

1 Applied Microbiology and Molecular Biotechnology Research Group, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Democritus University of Thrace, 68100 Alexandroupolis, Greece 2 Department of Food and Nutritional Sciences, University of Reading, Reading RG6 6AD, UK 3Department of Food Studies and Environmental Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Malta, Msida MSD 2080, Malta 4 Inst...

A. Papayannis, D. Balis, V. Amiridis, G. Chourdakis, G. Tsaknakis, C. Zerefos, A. D. A. Castanho, S. Nickovic, S. Kazadzis, and J. Grabowski Department of Physics, National Technical University of Athens, Greece Laboratory of Atmospheric Physics, Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, Greece Department of Geology, University of Athens, Greece Department of Physics, University of São Paulo, Br...

Background: Brucellosis is one of the most prevalent diseases common between humans and animals. It is also called Malta fever, Undulant fever and Mediterranean fever. This disease is spread by consuming milk and its unpasteurized derivatives. Clinical symptoms of brucellosis in humans are fever, chills, headache, muscular pain, tiredness, loss of appetite, joint pain, weight loss, constipation...