"This article attempts to give a broad overview of trends in family and household composition in Europe during the last few decades. The focus is on Western Europe. We look at the decreasing average size of the household and the family (section 2) and its demographic causes. The changing role of the traditional family is reviewed in section 3, while section 4 contains a discussion of non-tra...

Hemodialysis treatment is provided for critically ill patients with acute kidney injury as in‐ patient therapy. More commonly, HD is routinely provided for stable patients with endstage renal failure (ESRF) as an outpatient therapy conducted in a dialysis outpatient facility, either a purpose built room in a hospital or a dedicated stand-alone clinic. Less fre‐ quently HD is done at home, where...

One of the most common problems encountered in agriculture is that of predicting a response variable from covariates of interest. The aim of this paper is to use a Bayesian neural network approach to predict dairy daughter milk production from dairy dam, sire, herd and environmental factors. The results of the Bayesian neural network are compared with the results obtained when the regression re...

Experiments have been conducted in 7-rod vertical bundles within circular shell. Buoyancy supports the forced flow in one and opposes it in the other. The Reynolds number range nominally covered 900 to 30000; but no distinct transition was observed. The behaviour is explained through a porous medium model. Procedures for estimating bundle-average permeability and fRe values on the basis of poro...

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We study a problem coming from the design of wireless cellular radio communication network Frequency planning constraints are modelled in terms of graph theory For each planning function f let us call sp f or the span of the fre quency planning f the di erence between the largest and the smallest frequency used Let the Order of the graph be Or G sp G and the maximal local order of the graph the...

Heliotropium sclerocarpum Phil. (Heliotropiaceae) is a resinous bush that grows in the Atacama of northern Chile. The chemical composition of its resinous exudate was analyzed for the first time. One aromatic geranyl derivative: filifolinol (1), one flavanone: naringenin (2) and a new type of 3-oxo-2-arylbenzofuran derivative 3 were isolated and their structures were determined. The antioxidant...

Amplitude and phase variability are commonly found in many different types of pulsating stars. This suggests a common, presently unknown physical origin. We have examined the phenomenon in several δ Scuti stars with extensive data and find the beating of close frequencies to be responsible. This is demonstrated for the star FG Vir by testing the relationship between the observed amplitude and p...

A combination of AIDA the Adaptive In formation Dispersal Algorithm and pinwheel scheduling is proposed as a solution to the problem of designing data access strategies in environments where i the data is fre quently updated at a server and needs to be made available to clients upon demand ii the server to client bandwidth far exceeds the bandwidth from any individual client back to the server ...

Throughout this paper, X will denote a Banach space, S ̄S(X ) and B ̄B(X ) will be the unit sphere and the closed unit ball of X, respectively, and ' ̄'(X ) will stand for the group of all surjective linear isometries on X. Unless explicitly stated otherwise, all Banach spaces will be assumed to be real. Nevertheless, by passing to real structures, the results remain true for complex spaces. Recal...