ARTIST STATEMENT When we watch a film, we accept music as a natural part of the work. More generally, the sound track is recognised as a crucial element in the quality of the film in its total sense. However, at times the ...

Ileus continues to be a common consequence of abdominal surgery, causing significant patient discomfort and often leading to more serious problems. The therapy available is limited, hence, ileus remains an important ...

Historically, sex services premises in New South Wales, Australia were regarded and regulated as illegal and disorderly entities; they were policed as outlaws. The Disorderly Houses Amendment Act 1995 [NSW] bestowed legal ...

This paper presents BS-SLAM, a simultaneous localization and mapping algorithm for use in unstructured environments that is effective regardless of whether features correspond to simple geometric primitives such as lines ...

This first of two companion papers develops a new variational principle for the buckling analysis of thin-walled members based on the principle of stationary complementary energy. Some of the aspects of the Vlasov thin-walled ...

Dual systems consisting of two shear-flexural structures are often used in high-rise buildings. This paper presents a second-order analysis of such dual systems, in which closed-form solutions are derived for the lateral ...

This is the second in a series of National Audit Office reports on the preparations for hosting the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. It examines the development of the budget – costs, provisions and funding – for ...

This case study investigates how lower budget participation may be better suited to firms with a high budget emphasis, in lower uncertainty conditions. The organisation studied generates greater benefits when budget ...

Wim Wender¿s¿ Buena Vista Social Club may be, as one critic called it, `a loving portrait of a master class in Cuban music¿. But it is many other things as well.1 Geography as much as history has bonded the destinies of ...

The aesthetics of form in motion has been a central preoccupation for the visual arts of the twentieth century, culminating in the establishment of kinetic art as a distinct area of activity in the 1950's. Architecture ...