Ian Atkinson was one of the most versatile ecologists ever to work on our shores, an original thinker and true allrounder whose broad scope covered plants, animals, soils. A generalist old school rather than a narrowly focussed specialist, his career notable for collaboration with experts in variety fields lasting contributions vegetation mapping, soil volcanic succession, introduced rodent eco...

There are heat losses during the cycle of real engine that are neglected in ideal air-standard analysis. In this paper, the effect of heat transfer on the net output work is shown and thermal efficiency of the air-standard Atkinson and the Dual combustion cycles are analyzed. Comparison of performances of the air-standard Atkinson and the Dual combustion cycles with heat transfer considerations...

In this paper we report on the design and analysis of a multilevel method for the solution of the OrnsteinZernike Equations and related systems of integro-algebraic equations. Our approach is based on an extension of the Atkinson-Brakhage method, with Newton-GMRES used as the coarse mesh solver. We report on several numerical experiments to illustrate the effectiveness of the method.

The paper provides an extension and a new proof of Deaton’s theorem on the undesirability of nonuniform excise taxation when income taxes are a¢ ne and preferences over consumption goods are separable from labour-leisure choices, homothetic, and identical across agents. Key Words: Optimal Excise Taxes, Atkinson-Stiglitz Theorem, Deaton’s Theorem JEL Classi…cation: H21

BACKGROUND The health workforce has a dynamically changing nature and the regular documentation of the distribution of health professionals is a persistent policy concern. The aim of the present study was to examine available human medical resources in primary care and identify possible inequalities regarding the distribution of general practitioners in Albania between 2000 and 2004. METHODS ...

INTRODUCTION Since the late 1990 s, the Chinese government has carried out several reforms on the primary health care, which is greatly improved but still left much to be desired, especially for the health workforces. The aim of this study was to analyze the number of health workforces and the trends in distribution of health workforces in Jiangsu province of eastern China from 2008 to 2012. ...

A weak canonical form is derived for vector spaces of m x n matrices all of rank at most r. This shows that the structure of such spaces is controlled by the structure of an associated 'primitive' space. In the case of primitive spaces it is shown that m and n are bounded by functions of r and that these bounds are tight. 1980 Mathematics subject classification (Amer. Math. Soc.): 15 A 30, 15 A...

The efficacy of different techniques of facial nerve block for cataract surgery was investigated. Forty four patients underwent either modified O'Brien, Atkinson, van Lint, or lid blocks. Intentional muscle activity of the orbicularis oculi muscle was recorded and the area under the EMG curve calculated for quantitative comparison of muscle activity between the groups before and after injection...

Maintaining a software system resembles renovating a house: it usually takes longer and costs more than planned. Similarly to a house owner identifying potential problems before renovation, a software owner should assess maintainability of software before renovating or extending it. To measure maintainability one often applies metrics, associating software artifacts with numbers. Unfortunately,...

We recently published an original research article in Clinical Science reporting that the age-associated impairment in brachial artery FMD (flow-mediated dilation), a non-invasive measure of conduit artery endothelial function, was exacerbated in MA/O (middle-aged and older) adults with IFG (impaired fasting plasma glucose) concentrations, but this was not observed in MA/O adults with IFG who p...