AIM To determine the prevalence of hearing disorders in Singapore military conscripts and describe the profile of hearing loss and associated risk factors. METHODS Population-based descriptive analysis of randomised cohort of 818 Singapore military conscripts presenting for medical examination, using self-administered questionnaire and pure tone audiometry performed for both ears. Main outcom...

The purpose of this paper is to sketch some of the implications, prospective and retrospective, of the primacy of method in the present study of politics and to do it by way of a contrast, which is deliberately heightened, but hopefully not caricatured, between the vocation of the “methodist”1 and the vocation of the theorist. My discussion will be centered around the kinds of activity involved...

2 ABSTRACT The quantification of the freight movements occurring in each traffic zone disaggregated by supply chain and of the corresponding Origin-Destination trip tables connected with the urban delivery of goods, is essential to evaluate the effects of any city logistic policy in terms of vehicle congestion and polluting emissions, based on the assignment of truck flows to the road network. ...

imone de Beauvoir recalls that when she first made the acquaintance of Jean-Paul Sartre he, then still a young man, proudly and somewhat hubristically declared that when he became older he wanted to be Stendhal and Spinoza (Cérémonie 182, 228). Not satisfied with the dream of being merely a great writer or a great philosopher, Sartre hoped to pursue both academic vocations at the same time. For...

One of the principal motivations to use the grids computing and data grids comes from the applications using of large sets from data, for example, in High-Energy physics or Life Science to improve the total output of the software environments used to carry these applications on the grids, data replication are deposited on various selected sites. In the field of the grids the majority of the str...

This article aims to identify occupations at risk of climate change, and explore their spatial distribution by investigating their spatial concentration and cluster patterns in Korea. In order to identify professions vulnerable to climate change, we used three criteria: (1) exposure to the risks of job activities; (2) sensitivity to work environments; and (3) adaptive capacities based on the so...