The drylands of the Middle East have been long seen not only as unfavourable to life, but also and relatedly, socio-politically fragile. Fraught with myths eternal ‘ethnic’, ‘sectarian’, or ‘res...

The Eternal system is a CORBA 2.0-compliant system that provides, in addition to the location transparency and the interoperability inherent in the CORBA standard, support for replicated objects and thus fault tolerance. Eternal exploits the Internet Inter-ORB Protocol (IIOP) interface to ‘‘attach’’ itself transparently to objects operating over a commercial CORBA Object Request Broker (ORB). T...

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world (Chevalier, 2010). Ageing is a universal process. In the word of Seneca “Old Age is an Incurable Disease". Ageing is a natural process that begins at birth, a process that progresses throughout one’s life and ends at ...

Since the advent of general anaesthesia over 150 years ago it has been recognised that the price of human safety while unconscious is eternal vigilance by the caregiver, the ability to handle life threatening problems and a systematic analysis of error. John Snow, a pioneer of anaesthesia and clinical epidemiology, placed reliance on observation of the respiratory pattern and the pulse and such...

The performance of music usually involves a great deal of interpretation by the musician. In classical music, the final ritardando is a good example of the expressive aspect of music performance. Even though expressive timing data is expected to have a strong component that is determined by the piece itself, in this paper we investigate to what degree individual performance style has an effect ...