Push technology is an essential component of modern WWW applications. With the ability of sending relevant information to users in reaction to new events, enables highly interactive applications on WWW. What has been present in desktop applications for decades is only now coming online. Actually, the push is usually emulated using the pull technology, since, with the HTTP protocol alone, it is ...

The Singular Asymptotics Lemma by Brüning and Seeley and the Push-Forward Theorem by Melrose lie at the very heart of their respective approaches to singular analysis. We review both and show that they deal with the same basic problem, giving solutions that emphasize different aspects of it. This also points to a possible common extension. 1. An Example As a simple example, consider f : R+ → R+...

Those of you who were able to participate in the 13th World Congress on Disaster and Emergency Medicine (WCDEM-13) in Melbourne in May 2003 were involved in a well-organized and well-conducted convocation in the midst of world chaos. Principal among the world problems at the time were the outbreak of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) and the early phases of the "pre-emptive" war in I...