Purpose: Historically the policy approach in the United Kingdom towards female enterprise and Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) business has mirrored the inconsistencies in the approach to small business enterprises generally (DTI, 2002). The policy approach between the 1960s and the end of the 1990s centred on various politically motivated dimensions of small business that generally marginalized...

This paper is a tutorial on defining recursive descent parsers in Haskell. In the spirit of one-stop shopping , the paper combines material from three areas into a single source. The three areas are functional parsers (Burge, 1975; Wadler, 1985; Hutton, 1992; Fokker, 1995), the use of monads to structure functional programs (Wadler, 1990, 1992a, 1992b), and the use of special syntax for monadic...

Retinal image structure is due to a complex mixture of physical sources that includes the surface's 3D shape, light-reflectance and transmittance properties, and the light field. The visual system can somehow discriminate between these different sources of image structure and recover information about the objects and surfaces in the scene. There has been significant debate about the nature of t...

BACKGROUND A considerable number of patients infected with HIV also have mental health problems. Individual psychotherapy is an effective way to treat these issues. Lack of social acceptance is a barrier to patients receiving proper medication and emotional/psychological support. OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to examine the individual factors of social acceptance in patients infect...

Against common postcolonial and historical readings, this article argues that the rise of primitive urge to dominate exploit others is what drives Kurtz Mustafa Sa’eed, two main characters in Joseph Conrad’s Heart Darkness (1902) Tayeb Salih's Season Migration North (1966), respectively, act as primal fathers thus commit violence on others. Adopting Freud’s theory primal-horde notions like “hyp...

To cite: Marlow N. Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed 2015;100:F82–F84. INTRODUCTION Designing perinatal trials is a continuing challenge. In the process, the choice of primary outcome is one of the critical decisions and one that will determine the necessary trial size and ultimately the success or failure. The primary outcome should be directly causally relevant to the intervention under study ...

Steindel M., Menin A., Evangelista T., Stoco P.H., Marlow M.A., Fleith R.C., Pilati C. & Grisard E.C. 2013. Outbreak of autochthonous canine visceral leishmaniasis in Santa Catarina, Brazil. Pesquisa Veterinária Brasileira 33(4):490-496. Departamento de Microbiologia, Imunologia e Parasitologia, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Rua João Pio Duarte Silva s/n, Córrego Grande, Bloco A, Camp...