BACKGROUND In England there are four national routinely collected data sets on births: Office for National Statistics (ONS) births based on birth registrations; Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) deliveries (mothers' information); HES births (babies' information); and NHS Numbers for Babies (NN4B) based on ONS births plus gestational age and ethnicity information. This study describes and compar...

for their oscillatory and nonoscillatory nature. In Eqs. (1) and (2) y("(x) = (d%/dx')y{x), i = 1, 2, • • • , 2n; yr(x) = y(x — t(x))] dy/dx and d2y/dx2 will also be denoted by y' and y" respectively. Throughout this paper it will be assumed that p(x), j(x), t{x) are continuous real-valued functions on the real line (—°°, °°); j(x), p(x) and t(x), in addition, are nonnegative, r(x) is bounded a...

Let $I$ be a proper ideal of a commutative semiring $R$ and let $P(I)$ be the set of all elements of $R$ that are not prime to $I$. In this paper, we investigate the total graph of $R$ with respect to $I$, denoted by $T(Gamma_{I} (R))$. It is the (undirected) graph with elements of $R$ as vertices, and for distinct $x, y in R$, the vertices $x$ and $y$ are adjacent if and only if $x + y in P(I)...

objective: this study was designed to compare the stress produced at the pdl of abutment teeth with two angles of cervical convergence, in otherwise similar settings. materials and methods: two finite element models were designed for a second premolar and a removable partial denture frame containing an i-bar clasp. maximum principal stress (s1) and von mises stress (seqv) were assessed along a ...

\Abandonment of causal ity as a matter of principl e shoul d be permitted onl y in the most extreme emergency" Abstract. Speciication formalisms in which causality and independence of actions can be explicitlyexpressed are beneecialfrom a design point of view. The explicit presence (or absence) of a causal dependency between actions can be used eeectivelyduring the design. We considera speciica...

Dendrimer-based gene delivery has been constrained by intrinsic toxicity and suboptimal nanostructure. Conjugation of neutral morpholino oligonucleotides (ONs) with PAMAM dendrimers resulted in neutral, uniform, and ultra-small (∼10 nm) nanoconjugates. The nanoconjugates dramatically enhanced cellular delivery of the ONs in cancer cells. After release from the dendrimer in the cytosol, the ONs ...

This article uses data for members of the ONS Longitudinal Study (LS) from both Census 2001 enumeration and patient registrations "frozen" on census day 2001 from the National Health Service Central Register (NHSCR) to examine potential sources of difference in area of usual residence.Overall 95.7 per cent of ONS LS members enumerated at census resided in the same area as recorded on the NHSCR ...

The tolerances of a storage ring to its magnet imperfections largely depend upon the magnitude of the resulting tune shifts. A large tune shift would imply the potential danger of resonances and. hence. poor tolerances. When the errors are in field gradients or in random sextupole displacement. the cal cul ati ons of the RMS tune shi fts are strai ght forward. On the contra ry. when we cons i d...

BACKGROUND Generalists such as general practitioners and district nurses have been the main actors in community palliative care in Norway. Specialised oncology nurses with postgraduate palliative training are increasingly becoming involved. There is little research on their contribution. This study explores how general practitioners (GPs) and oncology nurses (ONs) experience their collaboration...