Government Information Sharing (GIS) allows information exchange and integration between different government departments, agencies, as well as between public and private institutions. Sharing information enables enhanced efficiency -avoiding duplication of processes updating the same data; better quality of processes and…

In the last decade, several argument-based formalisms have emerged, with application in many areas, such as legal reasoning, autonomous agents and multi-agent systems; many are based on Dung’s seminal work characterizing Abstract Argumentation Frameworks (AF).
Recent research in the area…

Letter querying whether traditional, restricted opening hours of healthcare services cause men's poor use of health services., N/A

Se describen y comparan los registros de campo de las llamadas de ecolocación de la emballonurid neotropical saco de alas murciélagos Carollia plicata, B. ID y infusca B.. Estas 3 especies tienen
fase de búsqueda de las llamadas con…

Commentary, Jacinta Kelly warns that women who take on too many career, childcare and household
responsibilities are more likely to ignore the signals of impending cardiovascular events.

Objective: This exploratory, clinical study aimed to explore the effect of an activated charcoal silver dressing (intervention) with cleansing and debridement (control) in reducing the level of bacteria in chronic wounds with no clinical signs of local infection. Method: Patients…

With more than 64,500 members, the Bangladeshi community in London is one of the largest in the UK. Originating from a wave of immigration during the 1970s, a considerable part of the community now consists of a second, UK-born generation.…

We have calculated the inelastic mean free path, stopping power, and energy-loss straggling of swift electron, proton, and α-particle beams in a broad incident energy range in four organic polymers: poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA), Kapton, polyacetylene (PA), and poly(2-vinylpyridine) (P2VP). These…

There have been claims in the literature that the variability of compound stress assignment in English can be explained with reference to the informativeness of the constituents (e.g. Bolinger 1972, Ladd 1984). Until now, however, large-scale empirical evidence for this…

Purpose:
To examine the geometric relationship between local recurrence (LR) and external beam radiotherapy (RT) volumes for soft-tissue sarcoma (STS) patients treated with function-preserving surgery and RT.

Methods and Materials:
Sixty of 768 (7.8%) STS patients treated with combined…