The surroundings of João Pessoa square have buildings and monuments undeniable political, cultural, historical artistic importance, some dating back to the beginning foundation city. Court Justice Jesuit set stand out, attracting a large flow tourists. In center square, monument was erected, formed by granite that does not exist in situ municipality. Other varied rare lytic types decorate these...

A nurse residency program's best practice recommendations are presented within this article and are organized around three processes: establishing the program infrastructure, creating a multistaged evidence-based program, and sustaining the program through appropriate evaluation and dissemination of results. These recommendations represent lessons learned and key findings derived from a team of...

It is a great pleasure for me to attend the Fourth Annual Forum on City Informatization in the Asian-Pacific Region while having this opportunity to exchange views with the distinguished guests. IT Promotes Development, the theme of the annual forum which fully reveals the significance of sustainable development of informatization and its role in the development. This is a theme which attracts ...

Mathematical models for the description, in a quantitative way, of the damages induced on monuments by the action of specific pollutants are often systems of nonlinear, possibly degenerate, parabolic equations. Although some of the asymptotic properties of the solutions are known, one needs a numerical approximation scheme in order to have a quantitative forecast at any time of interest. In thi...

Data from the urban renewal experience in Syracuse, New York are used to examine the impact of race on patterns of intra-urban migration. The results show that, overall, the migration patterns exhibited an exponential decay in frequency with increasing distance. Both blacks and whites display this pattern, but blacks tend to cluster more closely around the point of origin. Indirect evidence is ...

Cuba is the only country I know to erect a monument to the egg….and so it should. Located on Havana's Fifth Avenue, the simple sculpture pays homage to the salva vida-literally the life saver of many a Cuban family, particularly in the 1990s. Those were the worst years of what was euphemistically called the "Special Period," when the economy careened ever downward, reeling from the loss of 85% ...

1 Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, 1830 Monument Street, Suite 2-300, Baltimore, Maryland, 21205, USA 2 John van Geest Centre for Brain Repair, University of Cambridge, E.D. Adrian Building, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge, UK 3 Section of Retinal Ganglion Cell Biology, Laboratory of Retinal Cell and Molecular Biology, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, 6 Center Drive,...