The onus of caring for patients with dementia mainly falls on the family in Sri Lanka. The traditional closelyknit family structure is changing and it is difficult to find the time and resources to look after the elders. After the diagnosis of dementia, carers need information about the illness and availability of services, emotional support, advice on practical and emotional aspects of caring,...

Editor's note Sadly, Dr3John Dawson died on the 20th ofDecember 1990. For manyyears Dr Dawson had extensive interest and involvement, via his position at the Bn'tish Medical Association, with a number ofnational and international groups devoted to tackling the problems associated with 'torture and the medical profession'. He was instumental in the production ofthe firstBMA Torture Report and, a...

The need for Fracture Clinics is universally acknowledged, but there is considerable difference of opinion as to what type of clinic should be established. There can be no doubt that the treatment of fractures is a branch of surgery that has lagged sadly behind in the general progress that has marked the last fifty years. It might be supposed that the treatment of fractures in the hands of the ...

PowerPoint is an application designed to help the speaker or lecturer assemble professional looking slides to be used in oral presentations. The result sadly is often an unending stream of slides with bullet lists, animations that obscure rather than clarify the point and cartoons that distract from rather than convey the message. This paper examines what the speaker can do to avoid 'death by P...

Project developer in the domain of land settlement project are involved with many stakeholders and are usually overflown by data relative to technical, economic and social issues. This paper contributes to the necessary multi-scale approach challenge and we propose a holistic framework that enables to describe the development process of land settlement project and assess its sustainability. Itw...

www.thelancet.com Vol 385 June 27, 2015 2571 Submissions should be made via our electronic submission system at http://ees.elsevier.com/ thelancet/ similar adverse event crises, are already documenting substantial reductions in precancerous cervical lesions in those vaccinated. No vaccine safety signal has been recorded in Japan. Instead, individuals who have the misfortune to be unwell with ra...

Sadly, I am writing this Editorial to let you know of our decision to close Comparative and Functional Genomics as of this issue. Unfortunately, despite much hard work by the entire Editorial Board and the team at Wiley, CFG has not achieved what we had hoped and we feel that no amount of effort will be enough to rectify this. This will be the final issue of the journal. However, its archive wi...

Password-composition policies are intended to increase resistance to guessing attacks by requiring certain features (e.g., a minimum length and the inclusion of a digit). Sadly, they often result in users’ passwords exhibiting new, yet still predictable, patterns. In this paper, we investigate the usability and security of adaptive password-composition policies, which dynamically change passwor...

Conway and Smith’s book is a wonderful introduction to the normed division algebras: the real numbers (R), the complex numbers (C), the quaternions (H), and the octonions (O). The first two are well-known to every mathematician. In contrast, the quaternions and especially the octonions are sadly neglected, so the authors rightly concentrate on these. They develop these number systems from scrat...

System administrators often assume that just by plugging in a Gigabit Ethernet Interface, the system will deliver line rate performance; sadly this is not often the case. The behaviour of various 1 and 10 Gigabit Ethernet Network Interface cards has been investigated using server quality motherboards. The latency, throughput, and the activity on the PCI buses and Gigabit Ethernet links were cho...