Break dancing was at its peak of popularity in the 1980s, but evidently is still part of today’s youth culture. There have been several reports of injuries associated with this activity, although none recently. While mainly of an orthopaedic nature, the injuries reported are quite varied. This is a report of a previously fit and healthy 16 year old non-smoking young man who was 5 foot 5 inches ...

Skin and leather characteristics of hair-type goats were studied in relation to their sex and age, using 100 randomly-selected skin from goats reared in east west Iran. Mean weights of skin and leather were 859.2±35.2 and 357.4±16.2 g, and the length and width of leather ranged from 60 to 121 and 41 to 87 cm, respectively. Age had a significant effect on the weight and area of skin and leather....

In bacteria, the RecF pathway plays an important role in the repair of DNA breaks and gaps. Reconstitution of this reaction in vitro has revealed similarities with double-strand break repair in eukaryotes.

In this paper, a hybrid Mach-Zehnder optical modulator is proposed based on silicon nitride/organic polymer waveguides, which expected to break through the performance bottleneck of silicon-based by exploiting low-loss transmission property nitride waveguides and excellent modulation organic polymers. For reduction loss ease photonic packaging, perfectly vertical bidirectional grating couplers ...

This paper discusses a subclass of fraud detection systems known as break detection systems. A number of AI techniques have proven effective in fraud detection; however break detection systems address more complex problems than have typically been reported. Problems addressed by break detection systems are characterized not only by dynamic data with complicated temporal and other relationships,...

How much help do people need after a divorce? Plenty of advice is available on how to save a marriage but what about the problems of restructuring life if it cannot be saved - a Divorce Counselling Service may be needed.

However, it is a general feature of metaphors that they violate hard or soft semantic constraints. They can be analyzed by detecting that these constraints have been violated, and describing how. Some of the gap in understanding can be closed simply by having a crisp model of argument types for the predicates that are denoted in text – a violation of those types is evidence for a metaphor. Clos...