Articular cartilage does not contain blood vessels, the nutrition of chrondrocytes being derived mainly by diffusion of synovial fluid (Stockwell and Barnett, 1964; Ekholm, 1951). It has been demonstrated that the permeability of articular cartilage diminishes with ageing (Stockwell and Barnett, 1964; Tsaltsas and Kyriazis, 1967). This change has been attributed not only to the physical changes...

In this article, I present a set of communication strategies aimed at creating both online and offline communities based on an analysis participation in digital environments. These seek to enhance convergence congregation with the aim achieving best possible outcome from thesis-antithesis-synthesis approach, priority social work.

Abstract The Issa Valley , a novel by the renowned Polish émigré poet and writer Czesław Miłosz, is partly autobiographical rendition of Miłosz’s early years spent on his family estate at Szetejnie in Lithuania. omniscient narrator presents adolescence gentry boy, Thomas Dilbin; second, equally important protagonist eponymous Valley. book an homage paid to beauty Lithuanian nature world childho...

Getting a grip on issues of administrative delegation is key to the performance public organizations. The oversight game models as conflict interest between an inspector and inspectee act in interests former. This study tests alternative solutions overcome ‘shirking’ game. Specifically, we test effect external incentives, implied by game-theoretical solution, against role intrinsic factors, nam...

and that its computation presents a challenge in arithmetic. Such arguments are the antithesis of the scientific method since it presents no sound basis for rejecting or refining a model that has been proposed and is in use. Spring did not show that his model gave a better prediction than the Ellis formula for the total dose required, whereas Ellis has shown some success for his model (1). He d...

A novel formant estimation technique based on a pole-focusing mechanism applied to linear predictive coding (LPC) spectra is presented. The pole focusing technique is shown to provide superior feature resolution compared to standard LPC analysis. In its application to formant estimation from the speech signal, the technique is found to _be the antithesis of standard LPC analysis, requiring no p...