The research project “A quantitative risk assessment of Salmonella in sheep meat produced in New Zealand” was initiated with a meeting in Gore in July 2000, attended by a wide range of stakeholder groups. The meeting followed agreement that Salmonella Brandenburg was an important issue and the securing of majority sponsorship by Meat New Zealand. The research project has a three-year duration. ...

This paper deals with the creation of visual segment trees involved in MPEG-7 Description Schemes. After a brief overview of MPEG7 description schemes in general and of the Segment Description Scheme in particular, tools allowing the creation of segment trees are discussed. It is proposed to create a Binary Partition Tree in a first step and to restructure the tree in a second step. Several exa...

For years, clinicians and scientists interested in glaucoma have focused on the anterior segment of the eye and lowering of the intraocular pressure with respect to glaucoma causes and therapies. Yet glaucoma progresses in many individuals despite lowering the intraocular pressure. Herein, the concept of glaucoma as a neurodegenerative disease is presented. [Full article available at http://rim...

E lectronic voting has been around since the 1970s, but until the US’s 2000 Gore-Bush presidential election, it was largely out of the public eye. After the Florida punched-card debacle, it became clear that our election infrastructure needed renovation. The Help America Vote Act of 2002 mandated a solution of sorts, making US$3 billion available to states to move away from their long-lived, we...

Laser iridotomies in dark coloured irides are associated with higher complication and failure rates. A prospective clinical study to evaluate the use of the argon and Nd:YAG laser in sequential combination for iridotomy was carried out on 20 eyes of 13 patients with dark irides. Patent iridotomies were achieved in single treatment sessions for all the eyes. Iridotomy closure was observed in one...

RESULTS: Time to 2 stage, number of expansions, and relative initial fill volumes showed no statistical difference between the ADM and Gore DualMesh groups (p=0.539, 0.146 and 0.494 respectively). Furthermore, the Gore DualMesh group underwent significantly fewer fills (p<0.001) and had a higher relative initial fill volume (p<0.001) compared to total muscle coverage. The additional cost per br...

Web archives are useful resources to find out about the temporal evolution of persons, organizations, products, or other topics. However, even when advanced text search functionality is available, gaining insights into the temporal evolution of a topic can be a tedious task and often requires sifting through many documents. The demonstrated system named INZEIT (pronounced “insight”) assists use...

Elections and electoral rules matter. Imagine the outcome of the 2000 U.S. presidential election if Nader supporters had voted strategically for Gore rather than voting for their preferred candidate. Imagine the U.S. government’s response to Hurricane Katrina if the voter turnout of poor Americans matched that of their affluent counterparts. It matters whether people vote or not and it matters ...

An appropriate nonlinear blood flow model under the influence of periodic body acceleration through a multiple stenosed artery is investigated with the help of finite difference method. The arterial segment is simulated by a cylindrical tube filled with a viscous incompressible Newtonian fluid described by the Navier-Stokes equation. The nonlinear equation is solved numerically with the proper ...

This paper will introduce a new lexical resource for measuring the importance of short segments of text, such as sentences. The resource, a list of words compiled automatically from a large background corpus of news articles, can provide evidence that a text segment is globally important, that is intrinsically interesting, not only interesting in relation to a specified topic or set of documents.