The prolonged recession in Japan today stands in contrast to its high growth from the mid 1950s through the early 1970s and its booming prosperity from the late 1970s through the 1980s. The growth rate of the economy has sputtered in the 1990s and was even negative in 1997 (Yokoyama 1997). During the first quarter of 1998 Japan's gross domestic product declined at an annual rate of 5.3 percent ...

this paper highlights the effect of silt content on cone tip resistance in loose silty sand. in this study, twenty-seven cone penetration tests are performed in saturated silty sand samples with several different silt contents ranging from 10 to 50 percent. the samples are consolidated at three overburden stresses including 100, 200 and 300 kpa. it is shown that, as the silt content increases, ...

BACKGROUND A routine infectious disease service was established in January 1998 in order to optimize the antibiotic usage and prescription pattern of a neurologic intensive care unit (NICU). METHODS Treatment guidelines for the most prevalent infections were implemented and individual antibiotic regimes were discussed at the bedside with infectious disease experts. RESULTS This interdiscipl...

A review of patient confidentiality issues was commissioned and its findings published as the Caldicott Report in December 1997. It made 16 recommendations and formulated six principals. To help in remembering these principles the mnemonic FIONA C can be used: Formal justification of purpose; Information transferred only when absolutely necessary; Only the minimum required; Need to know access ...

Morrison, S.J., Shah, N.M., and Anderson, D.J. (1997). Cell 88, MMPs have been found in organisms as diverse as 287–298. plants and man, and in many tissues during developPotten, C. (1998). Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B 353, 821–830. ment, repair, and disease. It is only in the last five years Stappenbeck, T.S., Wong, M.H., Saam, J.R., Myzorekar, I.U., and that the importance of proteolysis of t...

Recent experimental and theoretical results show that the collision pairs, O2⋅O2 and O2⋅N2, absorb a small but significant fraction of the globally incident, solar radiation (Pfeilsticker et al. 1997, Solomon et al. 1998, Mlawer et al. 1998). The contribution of the water vapor dimer to shortwave (SW) absorption, however, remains speculative due to uncertainties in both its abundance and its ab...