we have already shown that low intensity pulsed ultrasonic treatment increases rabbit radial fracture healing. the present experiment was undertaken to find out the best duration for treatment. a complete transverse fracture was made in the right radial bones of21 adult male rabbits by a stanley knife. the animals were divided into 4 groups: group 1, control groups 2, 3, and 4, experimental gro...

The reference to ethnicity in the 2012 National Suicide Prevention Strategy for England (1) is mainly with regard to promoting mental health in Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) groups. However, there is little detailed information about any specific strategy to reduce suicide rates in BME groups. The Suicide Prevention Strategy and Action Plan for Northern Ireland has only one brief reference re...

The decline in religious identification and corresponding increase in the unaffiliated has been one of the most important religious changes in the United Kingdom (UK). The emergence of the “religious nones” is the most obvious sign of continuing secularization and the declining social and cultural relevance of religion. Yet while the religiously-unaffiliated often form the plurality — if not so...

Rules for segmental duration has been studied in the context of a speech database that is under development in our department. The database search procedures include the same kind of context sensitive rules that are used in our speech synthesis project. This gives us the possibility to make a direct comparison to the database durations when developing durational rules for a text-to-speech syste...

There have been important changes in the United Kingdom’s (UK) fertility and immigration in the past decade, with a large share contributed by migrants from Poland. A detailed understanding of Polish migrant fertility is lacking, however, because the relevant data are not routinely collected. This paper provides new insights into the fertility patterns of Polish migrants in the UK, and compares...