Atmospheric HULIS: how humic-like are they? A comprehensive and critical review E. R. Graber and Y. Rudich Institute of Soil, Water and Environmental Sciences, The Volcani Center, Agricultural Research Organization, Bet Dagan, 50250, Israel Department of Environmental Sciences and Energy Research, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, 76100, Israel Received: 22 August 2005 – Accepted: 12 ...

There are a number of reasons why physicians might want to switch from one opioid to another. Rotating opioids can reduce the risk of developing tolerance to the analgesic effects of any single drug and of developing hyperalgesia (where the extended use of an opioid can actually reduce the pain threshold, resulting in a worsening of the pain).2 Thus, changing to another opioid can be quite bene...

The increasing complexity of Database Management Systems (DBMSs) and the dearth of their experienced administrators make an urgent call for an Autonomic DBMS that is capable of managing and maintaining itself. In this paper, we examine the characteristics that a DBMS should have in order to be considered autonomic and assess the position of today’s commercial DBMSs such as DB2, SQL Server, and ...

This paper is concerned with characterizing psych-predicates in Korean and possibly in Japanese in the GL spirit. We focus on the the status of the Experiencer (or ‘judge’) in relation to other arguments and examine the firstperson subjectivity data (constraint). The relevant cause and effect relation and consequent coerced event function is postulated for coherent interpretation.

Neighborhood-representing organizations (NROs) are generally viewed as the most authentic form of citizen participation and local democracy. In this article, I question how democratic NROs actually are, both on the local level (participatory democracy) and in the external arena (representative democracy). I present a new conceptual model of the components of democracy in neighborhood organizati...

OBJECTIVE Using the National Longitudinal Survey of Mature Women, we examine between- and within-person differences in expected retirement age as a key element of the retirement planning process. The expectation typologies of 1,626 women born between 1923 and 1937 were classified jointly on the basis of specificity and consistency. METHODS Latent class analysis was used to determine retiremen...

where a, b, c are rational parameters. By specialization of the parameters, Euler obtained the various classical functions that were around at that time. For example, taking b = c = 1 gives us Newton’s binomial series for (1 − z)−a and taking a = b = 1/2, c = 3/2 gives us arcsin(√z)/√z. Finally, taking all parameters equal to 1 recovers the ordinary geometric series, which more or less explains...

■ Abstract The past seven years have seen significant advances in computational simulations of convection and magnetic field generation in the Earth’s core. Although dynamically self-consistent models of the geodynamo have simulated magnetic fields that appear in some ways quite similar to the geomagnetic field, none are able to run in an Earth-like parameter regime because of the considerable ...

Specialty hospitals, owned and operated by physicians with an expertise in a particular medical condition, offer the opportunity to design a utopian care environment for optimal delivery of care. In fact, the concept of specialty heart hospitals dates back to the mid-19th century in England, with the opening in 1857 of London’s National Hospital for Diseases of the Heart and Paralysis. The inst...

As global competition drives corporations into distant, unfamiliar markets, managers are searching for ways to minimize their uncertainty. When formulating their strategies for such environments, managers frequently rely on country risk analysis. Assuming that country risk analysis is an objective, fact-finding process, many managers fail to question these risk reports. The focus of this paper ...