ON 12 March 1636, the inhabitants of the town of Demmin in Pomerania were astonished to hear the bells of Saint Bartholomew's Church ringing out. Their astonishment was due to the fact that it was not a Sunday when the church services took place but a Saturday and the time was eight-thirty in the evening when most good people were abed. As the bells continued to ring loud and strong, the govern...

I have always thought that as a profession we were getting our message ‘out there’. You know the story—brushing, flossing, regular check-ups, etc. But really been successful? Patients drill (pardon pun), but fear they still do not follow through with actions. How many times you asked patient how often brush, what type of brush and use floss. Invariably, answers are ‘three day’, ‘manual or elect...

4-(2,4-dichlorophenoxy)butyric acid (DPBA) was intercalated between the interlamellae of Zn/Al layered double hydroxides (LDHs). Two methods of intercalation were adopted, (a) direct synthesis by co-precipitation of metal nitrates and DPBA and (b) ion exchange of LDH nitrate with the organic anion. The resulting materials were characterized by x-ray diffraction and infrared spectroscopy. Both m...

Di Bitetti, M. 2001. Food-associated calls in tufted capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella). Doctoral thesis, State University of New York at Stony Brook, New York. Di Bitetti, M. 2003. Food-associated calls of tufted capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella nigritus) are functionally referential signals. Behaviour 140: 565 –592. Fichtel, C. and Hammerschmidt, K. 2002. Responses of red-fronted lemurs to experim...

Since the convening of the Austrian Historical Commission in 1998, the state of scholarly literature is all but unanimous: the classification of Austria as a victim collective was clearly at odds with historical reality. Where the preponderance of literature to this point has concentrated on deconstructing the Austrian victim myth, this paper analyzes its creation and the political exigencies w...

Background/Aim. A combination of tacrolimus and other drugs such as corticosteroids has been commonly used immunosuppressive regimens. On the other hand, there is a growing body of evidence that male and female may differ in their response to the equal drug treatment. The aim of the study was to estimated the use of tacrolimus concentration/dose (C/D) ratio for the assessment of the influence o...

Realistic animation has been always a desired goal in Computer Graphics. The accurate computation of the illumination plays a very important role in the simulation of animated realism. Although many successful physically-based global illumination models, as Ray-tracing or Radiosity methods, have been developed, they are still time-consuming if they are used for the generation of sequences in co...

This article presents the methodological toolkit for data collection (particularly questionnaire) design and development in use at Statistics Netherlands (NCBS). The (re-)design of a continuous survey of living conditions is used to illustrate five development steps: (1) project preparation and risk analysis; (2) a qualitative study using exploratory tools in a questionnaire laboratory; (3) a q...