Intervening Years (intervening + year)

Distribution by Scientific Domains


Selected Abstracts


DEFINING DYSKARYOSIS , THE BSCC CLASSIFICATION IN 2006

CYTOPATHOLOGY, Issue 2006
K. Denton
The terminology used for reporting cervical samples in the UK is the BSCC classification, which has evolved over many years. In 2002 the BSCC held a consensus conference to review the BSCC classification, with the intention of providing clearer results for women, improving concordance with other terminologies and facilitating consistency with new scientific developments and technologies. The consensus conference was well attended and robust. In the intervening years there have also been other further advances on morphometry, data on outcomes, data from EQA and other sources. Liquid Based cytology (LBC) has been implemented by the NHS CSP. All of these developments have impacted on the proposed classification, which will be presented in full. The term ,dyskaryosis' will be retained and several of the current reporting categories will be relatively unchanged, though additional information on LBC will be provided. The major proposed changes are: (1) A move to a single category of ,High Grade Dyskaryosis' to replace the existing categories of moderate and severe dyskaryosis. (2) Sub-division of Borderline change into three categories. Borderline change in glandular cells Borderline change ?high grade Borderline change, NOS (3) The current grades of Mild Dyskaryosis and Borderline change with Koilocytosis to be merged. Details of these proposals, together with illustrations and the evidence base for change will be presented. [source]


Thirty years on from the paper ,Gust Spectrum Fatigue Crack Propagation in Candidate Skin Materials', Fatigue of Engineering Materials and Structures, Vol.

FATIGUE & FRACTURE OF ENGINEERING MATERIALS AND STRUCTURES, Issue 1 2009

IMPACT OF THE PAPER This paper1 addressed a very specific topic and by itself would not have had much impact in the intervening years. However, most of the paper's content was subsequently included in an extensive report on the Damage Tolerance (DT) properties of aluminium alloys.2 This report enabled guidelines for flight simulation fatigue crack growth testing to be formulated.3,4 [source]


RESPONSE OF A MONTENEGRO GLACIER TO EXTREME SUMMER HEATWAVES IN 2003 AND 2007

GEOGRAFISKA ANNALER SERIES A: PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY, Issue 4 2008
PHILIP.
ABSTRACT. The Debeli Namet glacier in the Durmitor massif, Montenegro, is one of the lowest altitude glaciers (2050,2300 m) at this latitude (42,44°N) in the northern hemisphere. The glacier survives well below the climatological equilibrium line altitude because of substantial inputs from avalanching and windblown snow. The glacier survived two of the hottest summers on record in 2003 and 2007, although it experienced significant retreat. However, during the intervening years (2004,2006) the glacier increased in size and advanced, forming a new frontal moraine. This rapid advance was primarily in response to much cooler summer temperatures, close to or cooler than average, and a marked increase in winter precipitation. The rapid growth and decay of the Debeli Namet glacier in response to inter-annual climate variability highlights the sensitivity of small cirque glaciers to short-term climate change. [source]


Staff shortages in the mental health workforce: the case of the disappearing approved social worker

HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE IN THE COMMUNITY, Issue 6 2005
Peter Huxley PhD
Abstract Approved social worker (ASW) numbers in England and Wales were compared on the basis of two national surveys conducted in 1992 and 2002. These data were supplemented by reports published by the Employers' Organisation in the intervening years. Although raw numbers suggested a modest absolute increase over this time, rates of ASWs per 100 000 population declined by over 50%. Possible explanations for this dramatic fall are explored. The authors conclude that specific and targeted action needs to be taken by the government and public sector employers to determine the numbers of mental health social workers needed in modernised community mental health services. [source]


Reflections on information systems practice, education and research: 10 years of the Information Systems Journal

INFORMATION SYSTEMS JOURNAL, Issue 1 2001
David Avison
Abstract. This paper celebrates the 10-year anniversary of the Information Systems Journal (ISJ) and the Editors reflect on the papers that have been published over that period and the changes that have occurred in the discipline of information systems. In the opening paper of ISJ, we suggested that the ,launch of a new journal in information systems prompts thought and debate concerning the state of the subject area and some contemplation of its past and future'. We discussed three areas of this ,not-yet-established discipline': practice, education and research. In this follow-up paper, we forgo our convention of ISJ editors not publishing in the Journal. We examine the issues raised in the first paper and consider what has happened in the intervening years as charted in the ISJ. The overview is necessarily selective, probably Anglocentric (with, perhaps, a slight Francophile tinge), sometimes downright opinionated, as well as over-estimating, perhaps, the contribution of one particular IS journal. [source]


Bond lengths in organic and metal-organic compounds revisited: X,H bond lengths from neutron diffraction data

ACTA CRYSTALLOGRAPHICA SECTION B, Issue 3 2010
Frank H. Allen
The number of structures in the Cambridge Structural Database (CSD) has increased by an order of magnitude since the preparation of two major compilations of standard bond lengths in mid-1985. It is now of interest to examine whether this huge increase in data availability has implications for the mean bond-length values published in the late 1980s. Those compilations reported mean X,H bond lengths derived from rather sparse information and for rather few chemical environments. During the intervening years, the number of neutron studies has also increased, although only by a factor of around 2.25, permitting a new analysis of X,H bond-length distributions for (a) organic X = C, N, O, B, and (b) a variety of terminal and homometallic bridging transition metal hydrides. New mean values are reported here and are compared with earlier results. These new overall means are also complemented by an analysis of X,H distances at lower temperatures (T, 140,K), which indicates the general level of librational effects in X,H systems. The study also extends the range of chemical environments for which statistically acceptable mean X,H bond lengths can be obtained, although values from individual structures are also collated to further extend the chemical range of this compilation. Updated default `neutron-normalization' distances for use in hydrogen-bond and deformation-density studies are also proposed for C,H, N,H and O,H, and the low-temperature analysis provides specific values for certain chemical environments and hybridization states of X. [source]


Paved with good intentions: the Hampstead and Clapton schools, 1873,1878

BRITISH JOURNAL OF LEARNING DISABILITIES, Issue 2 2000
David S. Stewart
Summary In terms of the history of education, most people think that 1870 saw the beginning of universal elementary education in the UK, yet few consider what provision was made for those with learning disabilities. The present paper seeks to throw light on the provision made by one authority in London, the Metropolitan Asylums Board. Prior to the establishment of the schools at Darenth in 1878, later known as Darenth Park, the Board established a school in Hampstead, and later, at Clapton for pauper children with learning disabilities. Equipped with classrooms and teachers, these were the first such schools to be funded by rates, as opposed to charitable giving. The present study will reveal that there was, in fact, a strong link with the School Board for London and that certain individuals, frustrated by constraints put on them by one authority, used their considerable skills to make provision through other routes. It was not until the 1970 Education Act that all children became entitled to education in the UK, but the example of the Hampstead and Clapton Schools reveal that attempts were being made 100 years earlier to provide rate-funded education for children with learning disabilities. It might be regarded as a tragedy that philosophies in the intervening years did not reflect the optimism which policy makers in London held in the 1870s [source]