The medieval troubadours were no wandering musicians, casually improvising their songs as they strolled from town to town, but trained artists who lovingly crafted their songs to please and woo their listeners. The art of rhetoric deeply affected the art of the troubadour. First, the art of rhetoric divided composition of a speech into five well-defined parts. The troubadours consciously molded...

A large amount of the fission products released by the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (FDNPP) accident on 11 March 2011 was deposited in a wide area from Tohoku to northern Kanto. A map of the estimated cumulative β-ray dose (70 μm dose equivalent) on the soil surface for one year after the FDNPP accident has been prepared using previously reported calculation methods and the 2-km mesh s...

INTRODUCTION Rural areas in the USA are generally poorer, more isolated, less populated, have older populations, and also unique work dynamics that fundamentally set them apart from urban areas. Additionally, funding and resources are limited in rural areas; a problem that may be exacerbated when looking specifically at town-level resources. One of the key problems in comparing US rural and urb...

ABOUT THE AUTHORS: C. Wiysonge is a medical epidemiologist and Vaccinology Programme Manager at the Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town, South Africa. He previously worked for the Expanded Programme on Immunisation in Cameroon and has been a consultant on vaccines and immunisation for WHO and the GAVI Alliance. Z. Waggie is a Paediatrician and Senior ...

Digitization of towns in concepts such as “Smart Cities” pose a new challenge for software engineering. Software is usually developed for selected target groups, represented as personas with clear requirements. But solutions for cities or smaller towns affect all its inhabitants directly, so that performing stakeholder identification and prioritization based on characterizations such as persona...

Gaya is the headquarter town of. the district with the same name in Bihar. The present population is about 110,000. It is a place for the Hindu pilgrimage attracting people from all over India throughout the year. During the Pitri Poush Mela which comes off near about September every year the town is visited by about a lakh (100,000) of pilgrims. The town suffered from severe plague epidemics i...

The urban fringe which can be seen as a special form of regional ecosystems with a spatial structure gradually from urban to rural areas of transition, has strong heterogeneity and is typical of ecologically sensitive areas. The expansion of city caused wide attention to the landscape effect of the changes. With the help of GIS, we got landscape pattern changes before and after town planning of...

BACKGROUND A link has been suggested between children's disconnection from nature and the recent surge in childhood disorders such as Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Research on benefits of nature for healthy children provides some support for such a link. However, only a few studies have directly examined the influence of contact with nature on children with ADHD. AIM The ai...

Cape Colony, and towards the end of the year at Natal. It continued at various points in the beginning of 1862. Diphtheria was seen among the children of the civil population at Keisham Hoeck, in March 1862; and what is denominated ulcerated sore throat, with a tendency to catarrhal and bronchitic affections, was frequent at Cape Town, Port Elizabeth, and Fort Beaufort. Fever, mostly of the typ...

s from the XXVI Biennial Congress of the International Society of University Colon & Rectal Surgeons, Cape Town, South Africa, September 4-7 2014 Marc E. Brozovich M.D.∗ ∗bepress (DC Admins), [email protected] Copyright c ©2014 The Berkeley Electronic Press. All rights reserved. Abstracts from the XXVI Biennial Congress of the International Society of University Colon & Rectal Surgeons, Cape...