This paper presents results of a consumer health vocabulary study of text appearing on Web-based bulletin boards. Consumers used obscenities and euphemisms to refer to certain body parts, functions, and behaviors. The female genitalia are the body region most often described with an obscenity (29% of all instances); male genitalia, in contrast, were rendered as obscene only 3% of the time. Cons...

I artikkelen setter forfatterne et kritisk søkelys på forskning og politikk der gutter jenter blir forstått gruppenivå. Særlig kommer gruppetenkning fram i evidensbasert om kjønnsforskjeller skolen. Ved å bruke biologiske forskjeller som forklaring, hevdes det at får dårligere karakterer enn jenter, mens opplever mer stress press gutter. Når praksis forankres denne typen forskning, kan bidra ti...

BACKGROUND high walking frames may improve exercise capacity in young patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). We have assessed the effect of Zimmer, rollator and gutter frames on 6-min walking distance and on arterial oxygenation during exercise in elderly patients with COPD. METHODS 27 out-patients (15 men) aged 70-82 (mean 75) years were recruited. Exclusions comprised: ...

Concerns have been expressed that dust from the minerals processing facilities at Karumba Queensland Australia have resulted in elevated lead (Pb) concentrations in rain water tanks. The ores derived from the Century mine some 304 km from the port. High precision Pb isotopic measurements on environmental samples have been undertaken to evaluate the source of Pb in rainwaters and acid digests fr...

The approach described in this paper is intended for 3D building reconstruction on large and dense urban areas. It provides a real-time solution for automatic inferring of polyhedral rooftops of buildings from cadastral maps and aerial images. From the initial planimetric outline and hypotheses of planes inferred from it, a set of rooftop models depending on two parameters (slope and gutter alt...