Increasing numbers of children are becoming involved in competitive sport. International trends in pre-adolescent sports participation are mirrored in New Zealand, where promising young athletes are being exposed to high-intensity training from an earlier age. As a consequence, overuse injuries which were traditionally described in more mature athletes are now becoming recognized in pre-adolesc...

background pertussis is a highly communicable, vaccine-preventable respiratory disease; which may circulate even in populations with high vaccination coverage. although frequent, but it is often underestimated as a cause of prolonged cough illness in both children and adults. without boosting, the protection of the childhood vaccination would be minimal after 10 years. the need for adult booste...

At the moment, 14 European Talent Centres belong to the recently formed European Talent Support Network, which, in the long run, can bring new dimensions to pan-European cooperation in supporting young talented people all over Europe.  Exchange and adaptation of best practices, spread and application of scientific results, possibilities of mutual visits of young talents, their teachers, me...

biotransformation of benzo[a]pyrene (bap) in the presence of microsomal fractions derived from liver and epiderm of adult and weanling rats was examined. the aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of age on the capacity of two organs in transformation of bap. subcellular fractions were prepared from skin and liver by ultracentrifugation and were used as the source of bap metabolizing enzy...

in pakistan the growing number of higher education institutions and the ever-increasing number of students, forces the institutions to build such an environment which completely satisfies these students’ expectations. this paper uses a modified version of keaveney and young (1997) satisfaction model and tests on a sample of students of comsats abbottabad, pakistan. the study is based on primary...

Abstract. Newman, Schneider and Shalev defined the entropy of a graded associative algebra A as H(A) = lim sup n→∞ n √ an, where an is the vector space dimension of the n’th homogeneous component. When A is the homogeneous quotient of a finitely generated free associative algebra, they showed that H(A) ≤ √ a2. Using some results of Friedland on the maximal spectral radius of (0, 1)-matrices wit...

The tragic spectacle of thousands infants born with deformed arms and legs at the beginning 1960s stunned entire globe. public's memory has been permanently scarred by sight those young people struggling limb deformities. medicine thalidomide, which pregnant women use for morning sickness insomnia, was found to be responsible deformities in limbs other organs. Thalidomide sold over 40 nations a...

We give estimates on the number ALH(x) of arithmetic lattices Γ of covolume at most x in a simple Lie group H . In particular, we obtain a first concrete estimate on the number of arithmetic 3-manifolds of volume at most x. Our main result is for the classical case H = PSL(2,R) where we show that lim x→∞ log ALH(x) x log x = 1 2π . The proofs use several different techniques: geometric (boundin...

Shoot growth, chlorophyll concentrations, gas exchange and starch concentrations were studied in lychee (Litchi chinensis Sonn.) seedlings of cultivar "Wai Chee" grown in a heated greenhouse at Nambour in subtropical Australia (27 degrees S). We also examined the effects of shoot defoliation and root pruning on leaf expansion. Shoot growth showed a rhythmic cycle under constant greenhouse condi...