With telecommunications in a slump, the search is on for ways to re-invigorate this key industry. The main problems are clearly economic much more than technological, and many of the proposed remedies would lead to new architectures for the Internet that would provide for greater control by carriers. They would drastically reduce the role of the end-to-end principle, the main foundation for the...

The influence of historical-causal theories of reference developed in the late sixties and early seventies by Donnellan, Kripke, Putnam and Devitt has been so strong that any semantic theory that has the consequence of assigning disjunctive representational content to the mental states of twins (e.g. [H2O or XYZ]) has been thereby taken to refute itself. Similarly, despite the strength of pre-t...

This paper is concerned with very long-terms trends in poverty and inequality in England and Wales over the last century. It seeks, in particular, to provide a tentative quantitative answer to the question of whether relative poverty has become more or less extreme geographically (Dorling and Woodward 1996). Such a study is only possible through the application of novel methods for data analysi...

OBJECTIVE An epidemiological investigation to assess the validity of residential proximity to industry as a measure of community exposure. METHODS 19 Housing estates in Teesside (population 1991: 77 330) in north east England were grouped into zones: A=near; B=intermediate; C=further from industry. With residential proximity of socioeconomically matched populations as a starting point a histo...

For over half a century, the ‘imagining’ of Great War in UK has been framed by existence two Western Fronts, one literary and other historical. The authors illustrators children’s picture books, whose work traditionally reflected society’s values pre-occupations, have remained remarkably faithful to construct war as futile meaningless conflict that destroyed generation. This article analyses fo...

The chapter offers a methodology to reconstruct the structure of Arno course, between Empoli and mouth, at beginning 16th century. Various documentary deposits have been used: analysis geological information, define palaeochannels structure; historical sources; post-Leonardian cartography stratified bibliography create information for geo-referencing Leonardo’s documents. This is compared with ...

Globalization is understood as one of the most significant historical trends motivated by technological innovation. The technique telecommunication definitely with that To study relationship how has an impact on progress globalization, this article provides a picture their development, combined synthesis applying theory cultural determinism. A factors analysis social needs constructed for furth...

we describe, the first case of phenobarbital-induced dress syndrome presenting as a lichenoïd eruption. a 49-year-old man had received phenobarbital for a cerebral metastasis. twenty-five days later, he developed a purplish skin eruption, odynophagia, oral mucosal erosion and fever. physical examination revealed a cervical lymphadenopathy and facial edema associated to a diffuse violaceous macu...

this is a picture presentation of myeloproliferative disorder developing to longitudinal melanonychia as a side effect of hydroxyurea. keywords: melanonychia, hydroxyurea, side effect.