The second half of the 20th century showed a series of decadal-scale anomalies of salinity, temperature and sea ice cover in the northern North Atlantic. One pronounced event, the 'great salinity anomaly' (GSA) is observed in the late 1060s and the early 1970s (Dickson et al., 1988). This anomaly can be linked to the sea ice volume out of the Arctic through Fram Strait, which represents a major...

5 The term software is newer than most of the things that it is today used to describe. Many data-processing pioneers assumed that applying their electronic computers to specific administrative tasks would be straightforward. While they realized that the new machines would require programming, many expected this to be a one-time, rapid, and easily compartmentalized job, firmly subordinate to th...

introduction: aim of current study is determination of optimal number of nurses in the emergency department of shiraz ali asghar hospital. method: current study is an applied study and belongs to operational research (or) studies. the population has been studied in this research, includes records of referred patients to the emergency department of hospital in 2008. sampling was performed in the...

Siricosoma reverentia sp. nov. from Vietnam is described, illustrated and compared to tremecoides Forsius, 1933.

In 1929 Morquio of Montevideo described two children, brother and sister, with curious skeletal deformities. To this he added in 1935 the description of two other children of the same family with similar deformities. Since 1929 reports of nine families have appeared in each of which two or more children have been affected in the same way (Ruggles, 1931 ; Barnett, 1933; Coward and Nemir, 1933 ; ...