hen a builder, a designer, and a regulator wonder how big the septic system for a house should be, they might approach the question from different points of view. The builder might wonder, “How big does it have to be to last through my warrantee period?” The designer might ask, “How much water are the people who are buying this house likely to use?” The regulator might ask, “If this house is fi...

1989 2007 Good Mean Sd Median 90th/10th No.obs Mean Sd Median 90th/10th No.obs Baby furniture and equipment 90 135 48 10 214 96 189 53 10 151 Bedroom furniture 319 567 151 22 222 408 567 198 33 242 Bicycles 128 140 85 15 213 116 176 54 26 169 Camping equipment 62 80 34 10 113 52 51 33 9 110 Carpeting 878 1030 602 18 138 839 979 502 19 69 Cars 7929 7030 6497 33 534 8521 6433 7473 10 344 China an...

Acknowledgments None of this work would have been possible without the guidance of my adviser, Bill Geisler. Bill is an outstanding mentor, in equal parts critical and kind. I cannot imagine a better role model for a scientist; he has unflinching integrity, unflagging diligence and a very big brain. Many thanks go to Risto Miikkulainen. Risto would always ask the hard question, challenge me to ...

PURPOSE To evaluate treatment outcomes of closed reduction and percutaneous screw fixation for tibial plateau fractures. METHODS 48 men and 8 women aged 19 to 61 (mean, 36) years underwent closed reduction and percutaneous screw fixation for closed tibial plateau fractures with <5 mm depression. According to the Schatzker classification, patients were classified into type I (n=9), type II (n=...

Robotics is a technology at the cusp. Long accepted by industry to improve factory quality, performance and efficiency, robotics has for at least three decades been a key technology in engineering industries (automotive, electronics, etc.) for increasing industrial productivity and for competitive manufacturing. After decades of hype and disappointment, robots are at last moving out of the shop...

Embedded Systems are components integrating software and hardware jointly and specifically designed to provide given functionalities. These components may be used in many different types of applications, including transport (avionics, space, automotive, trains), electrical and electronic appliances (cameras, toys, television, washers, dryers, audio systems, cellular phones), power distribution,...

radical alterations in the factors determining energy intake and expenditure that we have witnessed over recent times have fundamentally changed the way we view the interplay between the environment and our physical selves. It was only at the advent of the 20th century that technological advancement finally began to squeeze out the manual labour associated with the production and transport of g...

This study reports the isolation of microorganisms that are resistant to environment containing limonene, the most important residue in the citrus industry. For the isolation, samples collected from strategic places of a citrus processing plant (yellow water, entrance and exit of the bagasse tank, effluent and deteriorated fruits found in bins, machine straps, fruit washers and plant floor), so...

This thesis describes the development of high critical temperature superconducting quantum interference device (high-Tc SQUID) magnetometers based on bicrystal grain boundary and nanowire junctions for the potential use in on-scalp magnetoencephalography (MEG), which is a new generation MEG technique with reduced sensor-to-subject standoff distances. MEG is a method of mapping neural dynamics i...

•IN a previous article (Brown and Woods, Bnt. J. Anaesth., this issue, p. 333) we have referred to technical difficulties experienced with the machines we used in our closed circuit cases. As it seems possible that others working with similar apparatus may wish to employ halothane in this way, we thought that some account of the troubles encountered and the modifications required might be of in...