1 Department of Geography, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK, Tel +44 (0)116 252 3812, Fax +44 (0)116 252 3854, 2 School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT 3 International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Schlossplatz 1, A-2361, Laxenburg, Austria Tel +43 (0)2236 807 0, Fax: +43 (0)2236 71 313 4 Centre for Mountain Studies, Perth College-UHI, Perth, PH1 2NX, ...

Introduction On 23 rd April 1955, speaking before a session of the Political Committee of the Asian-African Conference in Bandung, Indonesia, Jawaharlal Nehru, the Prime Minister of India, launched into a bitter denunciation regional defence arrangements being promoted by the US in Asia and the Middle East. Membership in pacts such as SEATO or CENTO, argued Nehru, rendered a country a “camp fol...

Department of Invasion Ecology, Institute of Botany, The Czech Academy of Sciences, CZ-252 43 Průhonice, Czech Republic, e-mail: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]; Department of GIS and Remote Sensing, Institute of Botany, The Czech Academy of Sc...

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Used fairly frequently in computer vision in the late 1990s, histograms are a convenient way of packaging a distribution. A histogram (Fig. 1) is a non-parametric estimate of a density, in contrast to a parametric approach such as fitting a Gaussian to a sample of data, which is completely defined by two parameters. Histograms, on the other hand, are defined by their bin sizes. Similar to choos...

haemorraghic-shock, and 1(5%) with acute liver failure. Differences between non-survivours and survivours by (x2): hypofibrinogenemia (53%versus 13%; P 1⁄4 0.039), epistaxis (17% versus 0%; P 1⁄4 0.023), evident clinical infection (47%versus 13%; P 1⁄4 0.044), elevated LDH levels (63% versus 30%; P 1⁄4 0.039), hemophagocytosis (57% versus 17%; P 1⁄4 0.024). Risk factors associated to mortality:...

OBJECTIVE To determine the relative effectiveness of single vs. two transcervical monthly insertions of 252 mg of quinacrine for female sterilization. DESIGN Controlled clinical study. SETTING Family planning clinics of 6 academic centers. PATIENT(S) Sexually active reproductive-age women requesting sterilization. INTERVENTION(S) At each of six centers 70 and 30 women were randomly assi...

We are conducting a large program with the NRAO Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) to measure trigonometric parallaxes of massive star-forming regions across the Milky Way. Here we report measurement of the parallax and proper motion of methanol masers in S 252 and G232.6+1.0. The parallax of S 252 is 0.476 ± 0.006 mas (2.10 −0.026 kpc), placing it in the Perseus spiral arm. The parallax of G232.6...