Polycythemia in carriers of hemoglobin J Cape Town or hemoglobin Chesapeake is thought to be produced by increased oxygen affinity of their blood. Both hemoglobins involve substitution of amino acid residue alpha FG-4. Measurements reported here, of the oxygen equilibrium of purified hemoglobin J Cape Town, permit direct comparison of the two hemoglobins. J Cape Town exhibits lower oxygen affin...

MOOsburg is a community-oriented multi-user domain. It was created to enrich the Blacksburg Electronic Village (BEV) by providing real-time, situated interaction and a place-based model for community information. Three versions of MOOsburg have been developed: a classic text-based MOO, a MOO extended to drive a Web-browser, and a Java-based system. The most recent version of MOOsburg is fundame...

Differences in Employment Outcomes for College Town Stayers and Leavers Areas surrounding colleges and universities are often able to build their local stock of human capital by retaining recent graduates in the area after they finish their education. This paper classifies 41 U.S. metropolitan areas as “college towns” and investigates differences in employment outcomes between college graduates...

Jamshedpur is an industrial town with a population of nearly two lacs composed of both factory employees and non-employees, the for' mer predominating. The town is surrounded by cultivated and uncultivated lands all around, fringed by moderately high hills. The lay-out1 of the town consists mostly of bungalows and labourers' quarters with scrub or grass-land around the dwellings. The soil is ro...

The effective apparatus deadspace of the Magill, Potter and Cape Town gas circuits has been investigated using a model system simulating 3and 8-year-old children. (1) The Cape Town system is more suitable for smaller children. (2) The Potter system is more suitable for larger children. (3) A generous fresh gas flow will decrease the deadspace of the Potter and the Cape Town systems. A flow of d...

was attempting to diminish barriers by encouraging patients to visit the town, and townspeople to visit the hospital. (The admission and discharge rate from and to the town, though small, was valuable in this respect.) It seemed too discouraging to ask any person or small group to visit and help 850 hospital patients, but we were thinking of our patients in the institutional mass. By breaking i...

Department of Psychology, Stellenbosch University, Private Bag X1, Matieland 7602, Cape Town, South Africa Personal Social Services Research Unit, London School of Economics and Political Science, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE, UK LSE Health, London School of Economics and Political Science, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE, UK Peterborough Child Development Centre, City Care Centre, Thorpe ...

* Catherine Ward is with the Department of Psychology and the Safety and Violence Initiative at the University of Cape Town. Chandré Gould is a senior research fellow in the Governance, Crime and Justice Programme at the Institute for Security Studies. Jane Kelly is a doctoral student in the Department of Psychology at the University of Cape Town. Katya Mauff was a consultant in the Department ...

Imagine you are the person responsible for the application portfolio of a large insurance company. For their business the company runs one monolithic system for most of its product divisions1. This system is 25 years old, written in Assembler and sits on an IMS/DB database. This is the old town. It’s at the end of it’s potential growth and people want to move out of it to the other side of the ...