THE remarkable scarcity of new cases of tuberculosis throughout Britain during the past four or five years, has in Northern Ireland been most pronounced in country districts. County Fermanagh is one of these districts in which a very low tuberculin reactor rate has already been recorded (Warmington, 1952). In the period of falling incidence a corresponding reduction in the numbers tuberculin po...

In January of that year George D Lundberg, Editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association [JAMA], was sacked by the American Medical Association (Anderson 1999). Some five months later, Jerome P Kassirer, Editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, left the Journal when his contract with the Massachusetts Medical Society, the journal’s owners, was not renewed (Smith 1999). At the ...

The rainfall and runoff relationship becomes an intriguing issue as urbanization continues to evolve worldwide. In this paper, we developed a simulation model based on the soil conservation service curve number (SCS-CN) method to analyze the rainfall-runoff relationship in Guangzhou, a rapid growing metropolitan area in southern China. The SCS-CN method was initially developed by the Natural Re...

Abstract Using a combination of genetic algorithms for the unbiased structure optimization and Gupta many-body potential calculation energetic properties given structure, we determine putative total-energy minima all $$\hbox {Ag}_{m} \hbox {Rh}_n$$ Ag m ...