REGULAR haemodialysis and renal transplantation are accepted as effective methods of treatment for adults with chronic renal failure. Ten years ago the outlook for such children was bleak, with many people suggesting that dialysis and transplantation should not be offered in view of the poor results and heavy strain on the child and his family. Despite this, some centres started treating childr...

This paper details my field work experiences during my doctoral research in Nairobi rural-urban fringe, Kenya. The field work was conducted before, during and after a period of election related violence. The paper details the choice of my methodology and also enumerates various decisions that I had to take during the field work when the situation was visibly bleak. The paper provides lessons an...

There is the age-old paradox of technologists predicting bleak futures for mankind because of their research directions but nevertheless hurtling full steam ahead in pursuing them. Strong humanoid research could be one such example. The holy grail of robotics and artificial intelligence research is regularly perceived as aiming to understand mankind by artificially creating a similar degree of ...

The picture of computer and network security painted in my 2005 ACSAC paper was bleak. I learned at the conference that the situation is even bleaker than it seemed. We connect our most sensitive networks to less-secure networks using low-security products, creating high-value targets that are extremely vulnerable to sophisticated attack or subversion. Only systems of the highest security are s...

The Institute of Medicine report “Patient Safety: Achieving a New Standard for Care” states, “At the most basic level, data standards are about the standardization of data elements: (1) defining what to collect, (2) deciding how to represent what is collected (by designating data types or terminologies), and (3) determining how to encode the data for transmission.” Without data standards and da...

Results. Bleak or uncertain views about the afterlife are associated with multiple aspects of distress postloss. Uncertainty about the existence of an afterlife is associated with elevated intrusive thoughts, a symptom similar to posttraumatic distress. Widowed persons who do not expect to be reunited with loved ones in the afterlife report significantly more depressive symptoms, anger, and int...

Zooplankton was the only food component of common bream and silver bream, and the main food component of roach and bleak in the pelagic zone of the Dobczyce Reservoir (southern Poland) from April to October 1994. Cladocera and Copepoda constituted 67.9% of the food consumed by the whole fish community. The average size of eaten individuals ranged from 0.62 to 1.43 mm. Planktivorous fishes selec...

The chromosomal spread and karyotype of Bleak (Alburnus alburnus) from Anzali lagoon were identified using tissue squashing techniques with injection of 0.5ml/100g body weight of 0.01% Colchicines solution in fish fingerlings. Kidney and gill tissues were then extracted and chopped in KCl 0.045M for 20 min and fixed in Carnoy solution in 3 stages. The chromosomal spreads were stained in 20% Gim...