An ethnographic picture of certain aspects of maternal and child care among the Tagalogs who inhabit the municipality of Bay, Laguna, Philippines is presented. The objective is to illustrate empirically that traditional practices associated with maternal and child care are not guesswork. Maternal and child care is an important aspect of folk medicine in Bay. Measures to prevent miscarrage, t...

The effect of rule (4) on a series or parallel sequence of quantum mechanical steps is to insure that a conscious observer does not skip a step. This rule effectively places the observer in continuous contact with the system.

We show that in dimensions four and higher, to insure a smooth interpolant, additional geometric constraints must be imposed on the generalized Clough–Tocher split introduced in Worsey and Farin (Constr. Approx. 3:99–110, 1987).

Heat transfer is a critical aspect related to Electrical machine design. To insure a successful design of the electrical machine, special attention has to be given to thermal aspects in parallel with the traditional Electromagnetic design. For calculating the temperature rise in electrical systems such as electrical machines or power electronic systems it is important to measure the temperature...

Self-Organizing Multi-Agent Systems (SO-MAS) are defined as a set of autonomous entities called agents interacting together in order to achieve a given task. Generally, the development process of these systems is based on the bottom-up approach which focuses on the design of the entities individual behavior. The main question arising when developping SO-MAS is how to insure that the designed en...

Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) is one of the most commonly used cellular technologies in the world. One of the objectives in mobile communication systems is the security of the exchanged data. GSM employs many cryptographic algorithms for security like A5/1, A5/2 and A5/3. Even so, these algorithms do not provide sufficient level of security for protecting the confidentiality of ...