The European Union (EU) recently committed to becoming ‘the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world.’ Active labor market (ALM) policies are a critical part of the European Employment Strategy (EES) – the plan designed to achieve this objective. ALM policies entail several possible externalities that, spilling across national boundaries, may create incentives for Europ...

Ancient schwannomas are benign, slow-growing tumours derived from the neural sheath. They are characterized by degenerative changes which are not seen in the common schwannoma. An unusual case of ancient schwannoma of the sublingual space is reported to highlight the diagnostic challenge that this tumour presents. A 49-year-old male patient presented with an 8-month history of a right-sided nec...

only human. Very recently, a senior research associate in my lab shared his experience of accidentally spilling a hazardous chemical on the floor and the small change he will make to contain such spills more safely in the future. I am grateful that he used his experience to help us all work smarter and safer. These two stories have been about lab mistakes, the last one will be about remembering...

Phonetic research in the past decades has exerted a great effort to describe the principles of relative prominence in speech. The importance of this issue is felt in many areas of both pure and applied phonetics spilling over to the fields of speech technology, where prominence can help to disambiguate words in recognition tasks or make synthesized speech more natural, convincing and unequivoca...

Experiments were conducted to obtain the modal damping ratios of two hollow cylinders of different thicknesses of Aluminum. An electro dynamic exciter with slip table is used to excite the hollow cylinders. The hollow cylinder (unit under test) is fastened to the exciter. The exciter is placed in the horizontal direction and connected to the slip table. A control accelerometer is placed at the ...

1. The rates of entry of noradrenaline to plasma and of removal of noradrenaline from plasma, and plasma noradrenaline concentration, were determined in normal subjects and in patients with essential hypertension. Neuronal uptake of noradrenaline was assessed from the plasma tritiated noradrenaline disappearance curve, after infusion to steady state. 2. Noradrenaline disappearance was biexponen...

An elderly man with advanced esophageal cancer arrives in the operating room: his feeding tube has migrated out of his jejunum, spilling debris and bacteria into a previously sterile abdominal cavity. The OR clock fluoresces “2 AM.” With the patient’s immune system ringing alarm bells, his body has mobilized for biological warfare. His pulse races ... breathing hurries ... temperature climbs. A...

For the past three years, GROUP (Group for Research On Usage and Pragmatics) has been developing the VesselWorld system. In VesselWorld, three participants collaborate on remote workstations to remove barrels of toxic waste from a harbor. Each participant is the captain of a ship, and their joint goal is to remove all of the barrels from the harbor without spilling any toxic waste. Each ship ha...

In recent years, psychologists have started to investigate the downstreamconsequences of nonconsciously activated behaviour (acting in an ‘explanatory vacuum’). Results have shown that when such behaviour is norm-violating, people experience a need to confabulate reasons for this behaviour. The present paper aims to add more convincing evidence for this assumption. Study 1 addresses this questi...

This paper introduces a constraint model and solving techniques for code generation in a compiler back-end. It contributes a new model for global register allocation that combines several advanced aspects: multiple register banks (subsuming spilling to memory), coalescing, and packing. The model is extended to include instruction scheduling and bundling. The paper introduces a decomposition sch...