From 1974 to 1994, the number of children Canadian women are likely to have during their lifetime decreased. This downturn in fertility meant that the annual number of live births rose only slightly during this period, even though it marked the prime childbearing years for the baby-boom generation. As they pursued higher education and employment in the paid workforce, women have postponed child...

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Fluorides in dentistry are still receiving a great deal of attention from research workers, the dental profession and politicians. Faced with the vast literature on all aspects of this subject, it was decided to restrict the scope of this review to the publications concerning human studies on water fluoridation and dietary fluoride supplementation such as milk and salt fluori­ dation, which hav...

Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited. Modeling and simulation, intelligent software agents, and other technologies can support network-centric distributed tracking. These technologies came together in the Knowledge Management for Distributed Tracking (KMDT) research and development program to improve naval command, control, and decision support. The program's approach is based...

l otro,” by Jorge Luis Borges, is a short story in which the narrator, Borges, encounters a younger version of himself. The two characters meet and begin to converse, at which time the discovery is made that they are two variations of the same person, each existing in distinct periods of time and space. As a consequence of their encounter, the characters are faced with disturbing existential am...

Introduction One of the main objectives of this volume is to engage with the long lasting debate in sociology regarding the consequences of the industrialisation process for social mobility. At the heart of this debate is the so-called 'liberal thesis of industrialisation' which states that the industrialisation process brings about not only more opportunity for social mobility, but also more e...

This study, using National Labor Relations Board data and American Hospital Association data, reports on the status of union election activity in the hospital industry for a 65-month period, January 1980-May 1985, and contrasts it with earlier data for a similar 65-month time period (1974-79). Together these data provide a comprehensive overview of union election activity in non-Federal, nongov...

During fall 1974, approximately 1,000 to 1,500 common crows (Corvus brachyrhynchos) died of aspergillosis in south-central Nebraska. The birds were debilitated, lethargic and dyspneic. On necropsy, typical lesions of aspergillosis were found in the lungs and air sacs. Histopathologic examination revealed granulomatous lesions around fungal hyphae in the respiratory system.

Introduction Syphilis is a complex community disease, with multiple stages and unique presentations involving almost every organ system, and which can be controlled by public health measures. The aim of this study was analyse and report on the syphilis case finding programme as implemented through the dermatology clinic of Athens University.