The recent developments in cellular networks, along with the increase in services, users and the demand of high quality have raised the Operational Expenditure (OPEX). Self-Organizing Networks (SON) are the solution to reduce these costs. Within SON, self-healing is the functionality that aims to automatically solve problems in the radio access network, at the same time reducing the downtime an...

In Korea, total fertility declined from 6.0 in 1960 to 1.6 in 1990, in spite of a strong preference for male offspring. This paper addresses the notion that son preference hinders fertility decline, and examines the effects of patriarchal relations and modernization on fertility using the 1991 Korea National Fertility and Family Health Survey. It was found that women who have a son are less lik...

The SOCRATES FP7 research project provided fundamental research in the area of Self-Organizing Networks (SONs), including a concept on SON-Function coordination. The presented coordination concept contained a detailed description of a coordination architecture, required components and their functionalities. This document combines the information from multiple sources as for example publications...

Integrating Digital Papyrology (IDP) is a multi-institutional project aimed at establishing and improving relationships between three digital papyrological resources: the Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri (DDbDP), the Heidelberger Gesamtverzeichnis der griechischen Papyrusurkunden Ägyptens (HGV), and the Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS). Started in 1983, the DDbDP collects a n...

Moores UCSD Cancer Center, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA Mitchell Cancer Institute, University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL 36604, USA Department of Pathology and Division of Biological Sciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA Current address: Department of Cellular Pharmacology, Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo...

razzmatazz quackery hardly developed before the rapid expansion of commerce, advertising, communications and the press after the 1740s. Benes also shows that, at least up to the War of Independence, many of the showbiz-style quacks were paying brief visits to Europe, including the pioneer electro-therapist and sex-therapist, James Graham. In one final way, this volume documents the different co...

This paper examines the proposition that the incidence of child sexual abuse by female perpetrators is underestimated. This may be due to a culturally based unwillingness to believe that women commit such acts. Female sexual offenders have been little studied and poorly understood. Until recently mother-child incest was considered to be virtually nonexistant and there remains a huge discrepancy...