OBJECTIVES To describe how coronary revascularisation rates in the United Kingdom (in the public and private sectors) vary by age and sex; how these relations have changed between 1987 and 1993; whether significant differences exist between geographical areas, public and private sectors, and hospitals; and to make comparisons with trends in North America. DESIGNS Secondary analysis of data on...

AIMS To assess possible time benefits of specimen dissection by biomedical scientists (BMSs) and the quality of specimen handling by BMSs, in a department where BMSs trim those specimens requiring simple descriptions, from which standard blocks are taken. METHODS Specimen handling by BMSs and consultant pathologists was compared. Time taken for each specimen trimmed was recorded prospectively...

Background Due to the insidious onset and non-specific nature of axial spondyloarthritis (AxSpA), there is often a significant delay diagnosis. The average diagnosis in UK 8.5 years [1] . This associated with several adverse sequalae including poor disease-related quality life worse overall health outomes [2,3] In addition, are substantial health-economic costs this. Recent modelling data UK, c...

The only barrie r to a sm ooth move of g raduate women to the Notre Dame T ow nhouses and un­ d erg radua te women back into Badin is late com pletion of the tow n­ houses. Sr. John M iriam Jones, assistan t to the Provost, said everything is based on the tow n­ houses being done in tim e. Jones sa id ,“ The initial com ple­ tion date was Ju n e 1, so women could move in for the sum m er sessio...

The application of multiple en dm eiub er spec tral mixture ana lysis (MJ::SA1A) to map the ph ysical com pos ition of urban morphology using Landsat Thematic Mapp er (TM) data is evaluated and tested. MESMA models mixed pixels as lin ear com binations of pure spec tra, called en dm em bers, while allowing the types and number of endmembers to V(]l}' on a per-pixe l basis. A total of 63 two-, t...

(English) As the opening statement in a curated dialogue on Language and Waste, this paper considers what sociolinguistics of waste might look like. In first two parts, I provide some general rationale academic context for starting to notice waste. By avoiding dirty places raw lives waste, sociolinguists obscure important relations: first, social worlds people who live work with/in waste; secon...

James Duff Brown was an infl uential and energetic librarian in Great Britain in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His Subject Classifi cation has characteristics that were unusual and idiosyncratic during his own time, but his work deserves recognition as one of the precursors of modern bibliographic classifi cation systems. This article discusses a number of theories and clas...