This paper exploits data on the pattern of violence across regions and over time to estimate the impact of the peace process in Northern Ireland on house prices. We begin with a linear model that estimates the average treatment e¤ect of a con‡ict-related killing on house prices –showing a negative correlation between house prices and killings. We then develop an approach based on an economic mo...

This contribution highlights the challenges of implementing ISO 26262 to an industrial E/E verification and testing environment. A methodology to obtain a verification plan and an adequate test strategy in order to meet ISO 26262 requirements is presented and evaluated in an in-house project.

idea of counting the population from house to house, recording the list of members of each family, had been around for a long time. However, the authorities f e a red adverse reactions from the population, who w e re wary of censuses conducted for tax or military purposes. Consequently, the idea emerged in the eighteenth century of conducting partial, localized censuses and then extrapolating t...

Faces are a rich and available source of social information, and the representation for faces is robust in adults (i.e. the face detection effect; Purcell & Stewart, 1988). The current study compared the developmental trajectory of the robustness of face perception against the trajectory for a non-face object. Participants (5-35 years old) were presented with rapid (17 and 33 millisecond) prese...

OBJECTIVE To assess the knowledge about notifiable infectious diseases by accident and emergency (A&E) senior house officers. METHODS A telephone questionnaire of senior house officers was carried out over a one week period at the end of their six month attachment in A&E departments in Northern Ireland. RESULTS 81 (91%) of the senior house officers participated in the study; 23 (29%) realis...

Two commercial Midwestern egg-type chicken flocks experienced significant increases in mortality rates in April 2013 with clinical signs appearing in 17-week-old pullets in Farm A and in 46-week-old hens in Farm B. Average weekly mortality was 0.44% over a 4-week period in Farm A and 0.17% over an 8-week period in Farm B. On Farm A, flocks in the affected house had a 45% decrease in daily egg p...

The research aimed to reveal each of my methods (mastery and guided discovery) according a recovery program in developing some physiological skill variables for futsal players, the hypotheses were that there significant differences level skillful performance between two groups benefit players who are trained mastery discovery program, researcher used experimental approach due its suitability pr...

Background: House dust mite is common aeroallergen. It can cause type 1 allergy (IgE-mediated) symptoms from dust inhalation with different spectrums of the disease. The relationship between migraine headache and aeroallergen has been questioned for many years. Objective: To report a case of migraine headaches in a child due to house dust and mite allergy and the course of this allergy after sp...