Human Choriogonadotropin (hCG), its free /} subunit (£fh( '(>), and the core ,(h( (. fragment (c/3hCG) were measured by highly sensitive timeresolved immunofluorometric assays in the serum and urine of 29 pa tients with pancreatic cancer, 7 patients with biliary cancer, and 45 patients with benign pancreatic or biliary diseases. The results were compared with those of an ageand sex-matched ref...

Il Presidente dello SBA rappresenta il sistema ed esercita funzioni di iniziativa e promozione; convoca a presiede il Comitato di indirizzo e controllo, cura l'attuazione delle decisioni del Comitato stesso, predispone la relazione annuale sull'attività dello SBA. Ai sensi dello statuto è investito di poteri dirigenziali e gestionali che esercita in conformità alla normativa generale ed alla re...

”So then, King Agrippa . . . I am saying nothing beyond what the prophets and Moses said would happen—that the Christ would suffer and, as the first to rise from the dead, would proclaim light to his own people and to the Gentiles”. At this point Festus interrupted Paul’s defence. “You are out of your mind, Paul!” he shouted. “Your great learning is driving you insane”. “I am not insane, most e...

The practical deployment of distributed agent-based systems mandates that each agent behaves sensibly. This paper focuses on simulating the behaviors of Sensible Agents in dynamic and uncertain environments. Sensible Agents perceive, process, and respond based on an understanding of both local and system goals. In previous research, a Sensible Agent architecture has been developed in which each...

BACKGROUND In December 1995, the governments of the United Kingdom and United States independently published guidelines on alcohol consumption. The UK Sensible Drinking guidelines were designed specifically as a review of scientific and medical evidence on the effects of alcohol and of policy directed at alcohol use. The dietary guidelines issued by the US government in Nutrition and Your Healt...

A new order parameter approximation to Random Boolean Networks RBN is introduced based on the concept of Boolean derivative A statistical argu ment involving an annealed approximation is used allowing to measure the order parameter in terms of the statistical properties of a random matrix Using the same formalism a Lyapunov exponent is calculated allowing to provide the onset of damage spreadin...

In 2007 we felt very strongly that there was a need to publish research information in relation to the teaching of reading and in support of teachers who were struggling to understand phonics and its place in their pedagogy (Goouch and Lambirth 2007b). This followed a very crowded and enthusiastic conference when teachers, advisors and academics gathered together to challenge the findings of th...

Since the subordination of midwifery by medicine and nursing in the 19th and 20th centuries the standard approach to childbirth has been dominated by rationality. This approach proceeds by creating dichotomies and then prioritising one half of the dichotomy whilst rejecting the opposite term. Rationality itself is prioritised, for example, by contrasting it with the rejected opposite: irrationa...

Multi-agent Systems (MAS) meld the research fields of Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence into a field called Distributed Artificial Intelligence (DAI). MAS fit nicely into domains that are naturally distributed and require automated reasoning to solve problems. Sensible Agents are one MAS designed for domains with a high level of dynamism and uncertainty. A central problem in MAS...

Agent-based technologies can be applied to many aspects of manufacturing. The need for responsive, flexible agents is pervasive in manufacturing environments due to the complex, dynamic nature of manufacturing problems. Two critical aspects of agent capabilities are the ability to: (1) classify agent behaviors according to autonomy level, and (2) adapt problem-solving roles to various problem-s...