Large or specialised software systems-of-systems are now mostly composed of Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) software packages. In mainstream application areas, such as office automation, this approach has proved satisfactory once the teething problems have been overcome. Defence and Research have also followed this trend in a desire to cut costs and take advantage of the functionality of commer...

to be universally suitable to India with its extreme range of temperature and prevalent endemic diseases. The book is written in a clear and concise style with a freedom from technical terms which will be appreciated by mothers. Though junior practitioners will find much in this work which will be of value to them and which is not to be found in the ordinary textbook, and though there are certa...

Introduction: The chromosomal region 15q11-13 contains a group of genes essential for normal neurodevelopment and alterations in this result different syndromes. Among the most frequent alterations, there are deletions duplications. Duplications chromosome 15q11q13 occur as supernumerary 15, may interstitial main clinical manifestations intellectual impairment, problems with vision, hearing, te...

PURPOSE To create and test an audio-visual (AV) aid for providing anticipatory guidance on infant oral health to caregivers. METHODS A DVD-video containing evidence-based information about infant oral health care and prevention in accordance with the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry guidelines has been developed (www.utoronto.ca/dentistry/newsresources/kids/). It contains comprehensive...

OBJECTIVES The aims of this study were to assess clinicians' views and experiences of providing immediate neonatal care at birth beside the mother, and of using a mobile trolley designed to facilitate this bedside care. DESIGN Qualitative interview study with semistructured interviews. RESULTS The results were analysed using thematic analysis. SETTING A large UK maternity unit. PARTICIP...

It is good to be reminded of drugs that not so long ago passed away in disgrace, for someone may have failed to bury a drug or may have mistakenly resurrected it, having forgotten its dangers. Not so many years ago I missed a diagnosis of Pink disease (but was put right by my friend John Black): a chemist had found a large packet of mercurycontaining teething powders. In the 1940s and 1950s the...

of July last in nay family, and I venture to think a few brief notes <>f them may not be devoid of intei'est, as the remedy I found successful in their treatment?quinine,?has been only recently noticed in the columns of Lancet, and well deserves to be widely known. Case 1.?An infant ten months old, stout and healthy, but teething, was brought iu contact with another child convalescing from hoop...