BACKGROUND Inequities in health have garnered international attention and are now addressed in Sustainable Development Goal 3 (SDG3), which seeks to 'promote well-being for all'. To attain this goal globally requires innovative approaches, one of which is twinning. According to the International Confederation of Midwives, twinning focusses on empowering professionals, who can subsequently be ch...

This extended article argues a case for an Israeli-Palestinian-Jordanian Confederation, proposes the central elements necessary to realize this in practice, and offers policy advice key players as well makers United States, Germany, Saudi Arabia, Egypt. After 73 years of conflict, following Arab Spring, intermittent violence between Israel Palestinians, Palestinians will not give up on their as...

This reply addresses the issues raised by Dougherty in response to my 1999 article in this journal. I also develop a new graphical model of the optimal collection rate under the Articles, where states made contributions, and contrast it to the revenue potential from direct taxation. I believe that despite Dougherty’s criticisms, my argument remains valid. While the Articles were not perfect in ...

5 1 Computation and Neural Systems Program, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 6 2 Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 7 3 Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, UCL, London, UK 8 4 Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UCL, London, UK 9 5 Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Swiss Confederation 10 6 Trinity College ...

This paper summarizes some of the aeroacoustic research undertaken in Europe in 2005. It is compiled from information provided by the Aearocoustics Specialists’ Committee (ASC) of the Confederation of European Aerospace Societies (CEAS). The committee comprises representation from the Aerospace Societies of France (AAAF), Germany (DGLR), Italy (AIDAA) the Netherlands (NVvL), Spain (AIAE), Swede...

Automotive Shredder Residue (ASR), a waste when metals are mostly removed from end-of-life vehicles, has constituents similar to municipal solid (MSW) consisting of plastics, rubber, textiles, and some metals. The processing ASR is challenge due its heterogeneous nature, making feeding reactor difficult. In this work, new procedure pretreatment proposed bring particulate nature in the sample fo...