The author shares her personal journey of meeting, pushing through, and overcoming boundaries in many guises: as an outdoors wilderness enthusiast, engineer, a park administrator, and, now, photographer mixed-media artist. She asks: "I wonder if we can blur protected areas re-imagine parks PAs? Can PAs be vague enough to ignite creativity imagination? How might these re-imagined achieve protect...

In Australia since the 1970s there has been an invitation to parents to participate as partners with teachers in their children’s schooling. This invitation, explicitly expressed in the Karmel Report in 1973, has been repeated in many forms throughout the decades of the 1980s and 1990s, leading parents to believe that they are entitled to a say in how their children are schooled. Emanating from...

Background: Breaking bad news is an unpleasant task for physicians, especially for patients with cancer. In this regard, the SPIKES protocol, which is prevalent in several countries, has not been discussed in Iran. Objectives: This study evaluated how the SPIKES protocol was followed by physicians.  Materials & Methods: This descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted at Guilan academic ...

We report about some results, interesting examples, problems and conjectures revolving around the parabolic Kostant partition functions, the parabolic Kostka polynomials and “saturation” properties of several generalizations of the Littlewood–Richardson numbers.

This document proposes the definition of a multipart/sip-id media type, according to the rules defined in RFC 2048. This media type is intended to be carried by the session invitation protocol messages, when these messages are used to route calls between Internet Telephony domains. 1. Motivation There have been proposals to use the "session invitation protocol" to route calls between Internet T...

OBJECTIVES Although cervical cancer is one of the potentially most preventable malignancies, it is still fairly common. In settings with established screening programs, increased compliance is important for future reduction in cervical cancer incidence, but it is presently unclear how this can be effectively achieved. METHODS We conducted a randomized controlled trial including all 12,240 wom...

Symplectic Geometry has seen a rapid development since the 80's with the discovery of rigidity phenomena like the non-squeezing theorem based on Gromov's seminal theory of pseudo-holomorphic curves. A directly related development was Floer's method of using Morse theory in a new way, known as Floer homology, in order to solve the Arnold conjecture. In the 60's Arnold formulated his conjecture b...