The underrepresentation of women in engineering is often explained by gender differences in interests or abilities, learning environments and learning styles, or the uncertainty of the job market. But young women in Norway have largely overcome many of the traditional gender differences, and the job market is favourable. However, female engineering students lack role models and networks. Many l...

People v. Simpson, dubbed by many as "the trial of the century," was an expensive court case that taxed Los Angeles County's coffers. Many creative, and occasionally unconstitutional, proposals were suggested to lessen the county's hardship, but none were implemented. While the Simpson case may have captured the nation's attention, it was a poor justification to radically alter how the courts' ...

Th e Impact of Spoilers on Peace Processes and Peacebuilding M ceasefires and peace agreements in civil wars are initially unsuccessful and give way to renewed violence. In other cases, peace processes have become interminably protracted: lengthy and circular negotiations in which concessions are rare and even if agreements are reached they falter at the implementation phase. State-building and...

River ferries were historically important in crossing medium- and large-sized watercourses, with rivers often a barrier to trade routes journeys. Using old medium-scale Austrian military topographic maps from 1763–1768, 1836–1852, 1876–1880, Prussian 1825 1877, Czechoslovakian 1953–1955, we systematically localized the within what is now Czech Republic over monitoring period between mid-18th ce...

The phenology and routes of long-distance migrations European Nightjars are well described for Western individuals migrating within the East Atlantic Mediterranean flyways, while little is known about populations from other parts Eurasian breeding range. We describe route choice timing in eastern Mongolia, Asia–East Africa flyway to reach wintering destinations South-East Africa. After covering...

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) in wave mode is a powerful sensor for monitoring the swells propagating across ocean basins. Here, we investigate crossing Indian Ocean using 10-years Envisat SAR archive spanning from December 2003 to April 2012. Taking benefit of unique “fireworks” analysis on observations, reconstruct origins and routes that are associated with swell pools Ocean. Besides, three...

conclusion safety-related parameters of posterolateral and posterior approaches in supine thoracentesis are far better than that of the conventional lateral approach. background in patients who have difficulty sitting, thoracentesis is attempted in a supine position via lateral approach. recently, a new table has been designed for supine thoracentesis. this table has gaps that allow access to t...

This article takes up the critical discussion that has taken place at an international level by considering people smuggling as a crime. It focuses on clandestine transit migration of Cubans to Chile, associated with trafficking migrants, latter understood forced migration. From collaborative ethnographic follow-up, experience is collected while reconstructing motives, routes, lack coyote figur...

Northern Alaska is home to the largest designated wilderness landscape in United States and among world’s remaining roadless regions. Under 1980 National Interest Lands Conservation Act, Industrial Development Export Authority, a semi-public corporation of state Alaska, proposed an industrial road access Ambler Mining District that would run approximately 320 km along southern edge western Broo...

In this paper we deal with an extension of the crossing postman problem to design routes that have visit different shapes dimensional elements rather than edges. This models drones or other vehicles must a number geographical deliver some good service and then move directly next using straight line displacements. We present two families mathematical programming formulations. The first one is ti...