BACKGROUND The increasing incidence of injuries related to playing ice hockey is an important public health issue. We conducted a systematic review to evaluate the effectiveness of interventions designed to reduce injuries related to aggressive acts in ice hockey. METHODS We identified relevant articles by searching electronic databases from their inception through July 2012, by using Interne...

In the study of conformai geometry, the method of elliptic partial differential equations is playing an increasingly significant role. Since the solution of the Yamabe problem, a family of conformally covariant operators (for definition, see section 2) generalizing the conformai Laplacian, and their associated conformai invariants have been introduced. The conformally covariant powers of the La...

We can identify five important needs that children have: the need for acknowledgment, acceptance, awareness or attention, respect, and care. If these needs are not met, children will modify themselves by denying central parts of their nature in order to adjust to their parents and the situation at large. When a child denies his or her talents, powers, and gender or aspects thereof, he or she lo...

In the study of conformal geometry, the method of elliptic partial differential equations is playing an increasingly significant role. Since the solution of the Yamabe problem, a family of conformally covariant operators (for definition, see section 2) generalizing the conformal Laplacian, and their associated conformal invariants have been introduced. The conformally covariant powers of the La...

Since the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was signed in 1993, the rise in the U.S. trade deficit with Canada and Mexico through 2002 has caused the displacement of production that supported 879,280 U.S. jobs. Most of those lost jobs were high-wage positions in manufacturing industries. The loss of these jobs is just the most visible tip of NAFTA’s impact on the U.S. economy. In fact...

As the traditional diplomacy is being socialized and networked, public diplomacy becomes the primary tool of diplomacy. In the case of middle powers, public diplomacy weighs more highly because it grants them “ample opportunities to gain influence in world affairs far beyond their limited material capabilities” (Gilboa, 2009). Viewed in the context of the government’s contact with the foreign p...

We propose the PlayCoref game, whose purpose is to obtain substantial amount of text data with the coreference annotation. We provide a description of the game design that covers the strategy, the instructions for the players, the input texts selection and preparation, and the score evaluation.

This paper presents the first large-scale study of home networks. We design HomeNet Profiler, a tool that runs on an end-host in the home to collect data from home networks. HomeNet Profiler collects a wide range of measurements including: the set of devices, the set of services (with UPnP and Zeroconf), the home gateway configuration, and the characteristics of the WiFi environment. Since the ...

The stage is set for an e laborate game, the walls and floor a reagr id l ike chessboard domina ted by the playing-card por t ra i t s of the King and Queen and the black brooding archway leading to a hideaway tunnel, A game must begin decisively, with some positive action, y e t before the audience has quite-set t led down, almost unnot iced , the first of the players enters and begins to chan...