A JPL-led CSP Consortium of enterprises, composed of representing government agencies and private companies, recently joined together to pool in-kind resources for developing the quality and reliability of chip scale packages (CSPs) for a variety of projects. Since last year, more than 150 test vehicles, singleand double-sided multilayer PWBs, have been assembled and are presently being subject...

BACKGROUND Hospitals serve millions of meals and snacks each year; however, hospital food is often unhealthy. Hospitals are ideal settings for modeling healthy eating, but few programs have sought to improve nutrition in all venues where food is served. COMMUNITY CONTEXT The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene created the Healthy Hospital Food Initiative (HHFI) to improve th...

Social value is high on policy agendas in the UK but there little agreement definition of social context built environment or how gathering data...

This paper is a powerful wake-up call to the public health community which urgently needs to hone its political advocacy skills in the face of what lies ahead. Sadly, however, its central message is destined to go unheeded by governments throughout Europe, including the UK coalition government. Overnight, in the aftermath of events in Greece, these governments have gone from being enthusiastic ...

BACKGROUND Internationally there has been a growth in the use of publicly funded service markets as a mechanism to deliver health and social services. This has accompanied the emergence of 'self-directed care' in a number of different policy areas including disability and aged care - often referred to as 'personalisation' (Giaimo and Manow, Comp. Pol Stud 32:967-1000, 1999; Needham, Public Mone...

This paper addresses the problems of movement transformation in Prolog-based bottom-up parsing system. Three principles of Government-Binding theory are employed to deal with these problems. They are Empty Category Principle, C-command Principle, and Subjacency Principle. A formalism based upon them is proposed. Translation algorithms are given to add these linguistic principles to the general ...