The Chinese government announced new economic reform policies in December of 1978. The announcement included an urban distribution policy that emphasized small cities and towns for rural urbanization as a means to achieve modernization in China. This distribution policy called for limited development in large metropolitan areas, selective development of only a few medium-sized cities, and more ...

HP (Digital) Continuous Profiling Infrastructure, DCPI for OpenVMS, uses the hardware performance counters of the Alpha chip to overcome these limitations. DCPI provides a “fine-grained” view of the system. During the analysis of data, DCPI produces information ranging from the time spent in individual executable images to which instructions are executed within an executable image. It also prov...

The age range was between 3 1/2years and 66 years. The total white ceIl count range was 4000 per c.mm. to 23400 per c.mm. 52 cases (52%) had a ceIl count of more than 10000 per c.mm. while in 48 cases (480/0) the leucocyte count was below 10000 per c.mm. The lowest count of 4000 . per c.mm. was seen in a case of acute appendicitis with free pus (grade 2) and the highest count of 23400 per c.mm....

this article, with a focus on the change and transformation process of the approaches and trends affecting the new towns policy, scrutinizes the first and second generations of the new towns in reference to the south korea as a case study. the first generation of new towns development in south korea is associated with the rapid growth of urbanization, industrialization and subsequently economic...

The Egyptian new towns experience is among the most comprehensive and ambitious, regionallyand worldwide. Initiated as a governmental policy within a general strategy to tackle the multitude of problemsburdening Egyptian settlements in general and major and secondary cities surrounded by agricultural land. New townswere thought as an effective partial solution for the problems of: encroachment ...

INTRODUCTION The 'Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada' recognized that people living in rural and remote areas of Canada are at a disadvantage in health status, access to care and health professionals, and it considers the fight against these problems as a national priority. Although some attention has been paid to the prevalence of chronic diseases, very few studies have studied ...

The objective of the study is to determine the proportion and different types of birth defects among the children born in Hospital Kuala Lumpur. A cross-sectional study was conducted for a period of 18 months where all consecutively born infants, dead or alive were included. There were total of 34,109 births recorded during this period. The proportion of birth defects in Hospital Kuala Lumpur w...