An important and difficult problem in the printing and graphic arts industries is that of color management. Color management refers to the facilitation of color reproduction among various digital color imaging devices such as scanners, displays, and printers. The current work centers on color management for four color printing, focusing specifically on the practice of gray component replacement...

The cardinal features of Parkinson disease (PD) often begin focally, typically in one limb, and may remain relatively restricted to one side of the body for many years. It is now well established that dopaminergic neurons in the ventro-lateral tier of the substantia nigra pars compacta (SNpc), which project mainly to the caudal putamen, are the first to degenerate in the initial phase of PD (Fe...

BACKGROUND Provision of consumer information and patient education are considered an essential part of chronic disease management programmes developed for patients with heart failure. This study aimed to review the quality and availability of consumer information materials for people with heart failure in Australia. METHODS The availability of consumer information was assessed through a quest...

In BLOCKIN1988, BLOCKINMansukhbhai BLOCKINPrajapati, BLOCKINa BLOCKINrural innovator from Rajkot, Gujarat who failed his Class X exam, quit his job at Jagdamba Potteries. He borrowed Rs 30,000, began producing earthen pans with a modified hand press, and soon started his own earthen plate manufacturing factory. After an earthquake in 2001, Prajapati was inspired to create Mitticool, a Rs 2500-3...

During the last years approaches to ”interactive mapping” or ”Human Augmented Mapping” with and for service robots have become of increasing interest both for robotic mapping methods and for the investigation of Human Robot Interaction. The underlying idea is to take a robot on a guided tour and explain the surroundings to it. This guided tour rises questions both regarding the technological de...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the prevalence of overweight and obesity among children and adolescents of affluent schools of Karachi. METHOD This descriptive study is part of an ongoing nationwide project funded by Higher Education Commission (HEC) Pakistan, to develop growth centile charts of our children. This survey of three affluent schools of Karachi was done over a period of three months (from ...

The Near Fault Observatories (NFOs) community is one of the European Plate Observing System (EPOS, http://www.epos-eu.org) Thematic Communities, today consisting six research infrastructures that operate in regions characterised by high seismic hazard originating from different tectonic regimes. Earthquakes respond to complex natural systems whose mechanical properties evolve over time. Thus, o...

T he bottom-up synthesis of magnetic materials is a key aim of research in molecular magnetism. The goal is not to compete with bulk magnets, such as those decorating the fridge door at home or operating valves in your car, whose magnetism depends on the collective contributions of neighbouring magnetic atoms arranged with long-range order. Instead, molecules that are intrinsically magnetic — s...

Scombrotoxin Poisoning is an atypical food poisoning closely resembling an allergic reaction. It is caused by release of (mainly) histamine into the flesh of freshly caught fish, prawns and blue or Swiss cheeses left for a while in room temperature. The typical symptoms are a peppery taste, generalised erythema and burning, facial swelling, headache, dizziness, fainting, sweating, numbness of t...

In this talk, I'll rst present a brief history of my prior experience with Description Logics (about 10 years ago), and some new ideas for the next generation of e-commerce where DL's might well play a central role. In late 1986, a group of us, led by Ron Brachman, and including Peter Sel-fridge, Bruce Ballard, and Diane Litman, decided to test the hypothesis that a non-trivial, domain-speciic ...