New oral anticoagulants (NOAC’s) are becoming more popular as antithrombotic agents for the prevention of venous thromboembolism in atrial fibrillation and as prophylaxis in hip and knee surgery. With simple administration, rapid onset, few drug interactions and the absence of coagulation monitoring, NOAC’s appear as a friend in the prevention of thromboembolic events. Undoubtedly patients woul...

Intentional and unintentional doping in semiconductor nanowires undoubtedly have significant impact on the device performance. However, spatially resolved precise determination of dopant concentration is challenging due to insufficient sensitivity and resolution of conventional techniques. In this paper, quantitative 3D distribution of Si and Zn dopants in planar GaAs nanowires and their interf...

Since the previous edition of this collection, the World Wide Web has unequivocally laid any lingering questions regarding its longevity and global impact to rest. Several multi-Billion-user services including Google and Facebook have become central to modern life in the first world, while Internetand Web-related technology has permeated both business and personal interactions. The Web is undou...

The issue of meaning is undoubtedly significant in translation theory. Based on Catford’s and Nida’s view on meaning in translation, this paper aims at explore linguistic school’s contribution to the theoretical description of meaning. With Nida’s semantic studies as a focus, it argues that Nida’s semantic studies represent an important stage and carry the linguistic school’s theoretical studie...

The dopamine hypothesis of schizophrenia is usually presented in a static, rather than dynamic fashion. We propose that increased dopaminergic activity may represent a stage of a dynamic schizophrenic process rather than its cause. Dopamine, as well as other neurotransmitters, responds in an adaptive fashion to stimuli that perturb the homeostasis of the brain. One such stimulus could be an epi...

engine and airframe manufacturers for decades have cited the direct relationship between engine wear and high exhaust gas temperature (EGT) in recommending that operators use less than maximum takeoff thrust whenever possible. While the cost benefits of reduced-thrust takeoffs are thoroughly documented, the safety benefits are not as well understood. Thus, there is a common perception that usin...

Policy Based Network Management has been presented as a paradigm for efficient and customisable management systems. The IETF has provided a framework to describe the concept but the implementation of such idea is left out of recommendation. Undoubtedly, a physical architecture is needed to drive the implementation of such systems and get rid of the full advantages of the concept. This paper pre...

The combination of a Macintosh for producing high quality graphics and IPW for producing high quality typeset documents is becoming very popular as a 'total' document preparation system in many working environments. The development of tools, such as the psf i g macros, that make integrating Macintosh graphics in IPW documents easier, will undoubtedly grow in popularity. It is hoped that the inf...

manipulation, usually administered in the course of chiropractic treatment, can cause stroke, 10 and abducens paresis may develop if there is brainstem infarction or neck vessel dissection. Since our patient had no signs of brainstem infarction and her neck vessels appeared pristine on MRI, her abducens paresis undoubtedly resulted from the intracranial hypotension per se. Ophthalmologists eval...

ICAR Technical Series No 3 The development of the Dorper sheep and the Improved Boer Goat are undoubtedly two of the most successful long-term livestock programmes in South Africa. The Dorper is a composite mutton sheep breed developed through crossing an indigenous breed with a British mutton breed and the Improved Boer Goat was developed using a breeding strategy based largely on selection fo...