as if I had personally interviewed them. The fact, too, that being human lives their stories finish off abruptly without any easing of the situation, forces the reader to contemplate the ultimate issues. What must become of these sorry creatures??permanently seeking for some Talisman that will solve all their problems, but merely repeating endlessly the some mistakes, driven on by the Geni within.

My research focuses on easing the task of developing reliable and efficient programs via program analysis. The aim is to create powerful tools for manipulating programs and analyzing their properties that will help programmers develop correct, reliable, efficient, and secure software. The tools are based on understanding the meaning of the underlying programming language as well as some desired...

The division of text into visual segments such as sentences, paragraphs and sections achieves many functions, such as easing navigation, achieving pragmatic effect, improving readability and reflecting the organisation of information (Wright, 1983; Schriver 1997). In this paper, we report a small experiment that investigates the effect of different layout configurations on the interpretation of...

The second round of large-scale asset purchases by the Federal Reserve—frequently referred to as QE2—included repeated purchases of Treasury inflation-protected securities (TIPS). To quantify the effect QE2 had on the functioning of the TIPS market and the related market for inflation swaps, we exploit the measure of combined liquidity premiums in TIPS yields and inflation swap rates derived by...

Brazing generally require cumbersome apparatus be it induction, vacuum or torch brazing. In torch brazing, metals are joined by using the oxyacetylene cylinder. It thus becomes difficult to carry out brazing at the places where it is not possible to take heavy gas cylinders and brazing apparatuses. So it is tried to figure out the method to carry out brazing at places where conventional brazing...

Our complex healthcare systems are fragmented, and their functioning, both in terms of efficiency and quality, are plagued by multiple discontinuities. eHealth has the potential to ease transitions between the many settings and stakeholders of healthcare. eHealth can improve the continuity of healthcare information flow, can facilitate the re-engineering of care processes so that they become mu...