As the title of this introduction implies, there are few traces of hope and optimism to be found in Haiti’s current situation. If the unavoidable problems of rural communities in a nation of peasants such as Haiti are left unaddressed, and if the nation continues to rely on the standards of the old police state as a model for the new national police, Haiti’s transition toward democracy will be ...

No. I. ? Besiki, 7 years of age, admitted 13th April 1889, is employed in leading her father, who is a beggar and blind. History of a fall, two months before, injuring the left knee-joint. When the patient came to the hospital she was unable to stand and progressed in a sitting posture, pushing herself along with her hands. Stated that she had not been able to stand since the accident, and had ...

We consider the problem of scheduling n independent multiprocessor tasks with due dates and unit processing times, where the objective is to compute a schedule minimizing the throughput. We derive the complexity results and present several approximation algorithms. For the parallel variant of the problem, we introduce the first-fit increasing algorithm and the latest first increasing algorithm,...

Among all kinds of apes, only gibbons have the slim body as human. Gibbons can move in the forest by cross arm swing, what was the locomotion mode of our arboreal ancestor? Since our ancestor had much heavier body but weaker arms than gibbons, we suppose they had to move with two-arm brachiation. Such mode of locomotion can account reasonably for the transition to bipedalism. Firstly, it needed...

spasm quickly spreads to the right side of the face, and as it does so the patient places his right hand on the right side of his face and his left on his vertex. The spasm seizes the right sterno-mastoid and muscles of the right side of the neck so that the head is drawn by tetanic spasm downwards and to the right, the chin being turned to the left. The patient remains in this attitude moaning...

A trajectory generation strategy that facilitates the coordination of multiple unmanned air vehicles is developed. Of particular interest is the planning of threat-avoiding trajectories that result in the simultaneous arrival of multiple UAVs at their targets. In this approach, paths to the target are modeled using the physical analogy of a chain. A unique strength of the planning approach is t...

In order to analyze shapes of continuous curves in R3, we parameterize them by arclength and represent them as curves on a unit two-sphere. We identify the set denoting the closed curves, and study its differential geometry. To compute geodesics between any two such curves, we connect them with an arbitrary path, and then iteratively straighten this path using the gradient of an energy associat...

We describe a case of successful open-cell stent deployment across the wide neck of a large middle cerebral artery aneurysm using the stent anchor technique. A microcatheter was looped through the aneurysm and navigated into a distal vessel across the aneurysm neck. Although the loop of the microcatheter in the aneurysm straightened as it was gently withdrawn, the microcatheter again protruded ...

We numerically investigate the pulsatile flow and heat transfer of a micropolar fluid through a Darcy-Forchhmeir porous channel in the presence of wall transpiration. We use the central difference approximations for the spatial derivatives, whereas the time integration has been performed by employing the three steps explicit Runge-Kutta method to obtain the numerical solution. It i...

The paradigm that was born from a mistake and misunderstanding of something different seemed to create dividing barrier. Stigma has become barrier between tradition contemporary which is essentially related one another. It takes perspective find correlation will straighten out the "misunderstanding" two things are assumed be often clashed. Pluminasi music based on wealth or potential as well tr...