on self-selected diets and 50 patients (41 males and 9 fe-. males) in a municipal hospital were studied. Oxalated blood samples were collected under fasting conditions about 15 hours post-prandial. The ascorbic acid con,.tent of the whole blood and the plasma was determined by the method of Roe and Kuether (1). The concentration of ascorbic acid in oxalated whole blood and plasma was also deter...

Wireless broadband initiatives for cities are receiving significant attention today. However, while some major cities have already announced citywide wireless networks, the market for municipal wireless broadband is still in the early stages. Most of these large networks will almost certainly experience numerous changes before they are fully deployed. Most of the existing municipal wireless net...

Grounded theory is the most rigorous method of providing preliminary research in an area where research is scarce. Using grounded theory, this paper explores the extent to a recent government initiative failed to achieve its goal. Specifically, the study explored the role of U.S. municipal wireless broadband networks (Mu-Fi) in bridging the so-called “digital divide.” Grounded theory was useful...

World War I irrevocably changed the face of the world, including Croatia and its capital Zagreb. While between 1880 and 1910 Zagreb became a modern European city, World War I (1914-1918) was marked by new municipal regulations that overturned the everyday life of the city. Social conditions reached catastrophic proportions, especially in the later years of the war. Soldiers and refugees swarmed...

Kochetkova Nina Alexandrovna, deputy principal of the MEI "Lyceum № 1 ". Abstract This article examines the experience of distance education technologies in Podolsky municipal district, Moscow region. During the past three decades distance education has become a global phenomenon of educational and informational cultures, changing the face of education in many countries around the world. A whol...

This study aims to quantify water appropriation and the potential production of algal bio-oil using freshwater and municipal wastewater effluent (MWW) as an alternative water resource. The county-level analysis focuses on open-pond algae cultivation systems located in 17 states in the southern United States. Several scenarios were developed to examine the water availability for algae bio-oil pr...

Environmental tobacco smoke, called herein second-hand smoke (SHS) has been shown to cause adverse respiratory, cardiovascular, and carcinogenic effects and affect fetal development and reproduction. Although restrictions and bans on smoking in public places are common in many countries, Japan did not, until recently, have such restrictions and bans. On May 1, 2003, Japan passed a Health Promot...

1. Purpose of the study Since 1995, the national government has repeatedly revised the Special Municipal Merger Law (so called (Kyu) Gappei Tokurei Ho). These revisions are aimed at promoting the consolidation of municipalities so that these municipalities could effectively cope with various local and regional issues, such as their financial crises and ongoing population aging (e.g. Sasaki 2004...