BACKGROUND: Cystic fibrosis is an inherited life-limiting disorder, characterised by pulmonary infections and thick airway secretions. Chest physiotherapy has been integral to clinical management in facilitating removal of airway secretions. Conventional chest physiotherapy techniques (CCPT) have depended …

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What options are open for people—citizens, politicians, and other nonscientists—to become actively involved in and anticipate new directions in the life sciences? In addressing this question, this article focuses on the start of the Human Genome Project (1985-1990). By contrasting various models of democracy …

This article deals with automatic object recognition. The goal is that in a certain grey-level image, possibly containing many objects, a certain object can be recognized and localized, based upon its shape. The assumption is that this shape has no special characteristics on which a dedicated recognition …

Supersymmetric non-linear unification in particle physics: Kähler manifolds, bundles for matter representations and anomaly cancellation.

Samenvatting en Conclusies Tijdens stemgeving worden drukwisselingen gegenereerd door trillende stemplooien en dit proces wordt beïnvloed door vele fysiologische en anatomische variabelen. De basisprincipes van stemgeving zijn onderwerp geweest van talrijke studies. Essentiële details betreffende stemgeving …