The Indian Ocean has gained prominence in the international geopolitical discourse. It is becoming a showground for major competition between new and existing great powers. Maritime Diplomacy, this regard, valuable instrument averting conflict. range of options available are from cooperative ones to persuasive coercive selection maritime forces. helpful not only those utilizing it but also acad...

Ventilation/perfusion scintigraphy is the diagnostic tool of choice for detection and monitoring of pulmonary embolism. However, the knowledge on its value for other or concurrent pathologies is poor. In this review scintigraphic characteristics of the main pathologies, interpretation and artefacts are described. Together with the understanding of pathophysiology of the lung, the potential gain...

This paper is an attempt to chronicle and evaluate the struggle to innovate, to understand and to produce a sustainable response to the pressing problems of the care and protection of an aging population. In that struggle, quite distinct world views of the lived experience of the older person and their families and carers, the pressures and challenges of practitioners, on managers and planners ...

It appears that the initial resistance/scepticism towards evidence-based medicine (EBM) has declined and the current challenge for professionals is “how to” rather than “why to” practice EBM. The major hurdles include limitations related to: (i) availability (of high quality evidence on problems/ interventions relevant to our setting), (ii) accessibility (to current evidence at the point-ofcare...

Impulsive loads and walking loads can generate problematic structural vibrations in flooring-systems. Measures that may be taken to mitigate the problem would often be to consider the implementation of a tuned mass damper or even more advanced vibration control technologies; this in order to add damping to the structure. Basically also passive humans on a floor act as a damping source, but it a...

Estimates of obesity prevalence based on the 2013 to 2014 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey average almost 40%, corresponding to a 7% increase from the 1999 to 2000 cycle. Similar alarming trajectories are reported worldwide, along with increasing concerns for related health risks. The traditional concept that obesity results from a mere imbalance between energy intake and energy...

Researchers have identified the importance of understanding language teacher identity in order to understand more about language teacher education (Johnston, Pawan, & Mahan-Taylor, 2005; Varghese, Morgan, Johnston, & Johnson, 2005). The role of previous experience in shaping language teacher identity and beliefs and practices has been commented on by many writers (e.g., Crandall, 2000; Freeman ...

In this study, we report the catalyst-free growth of n-type wurtzite InN, along with its optical properties and carrier dynamics different surface dimensionalities. The self-catalyzed epitaxial InN nanorods grown by metal–organic molecular-beam epitaxy on GaN/Al2O3(0001) substrates has been demonstrated. substrate temperature is dominant in controlling nanorods. A dramatic morphological change ...

Many-body phenomena, a key interest in the investigation of bulk solid state systems, are studied here in the context of the x-ray edge problem for mesoscopic systems. We investigate the many-body effects associated with the sudden perturbation following the x-ray excitation of a core electron into the conduction band. For small systems with dimensions at the nanoscale we find considerable devi...