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Looking for central nervous system involvement in congenital cytomegalovirus infection : is lumbar puncture necessary?
Facebook on College Campuses: Usage and Opinions of the Social Networking Site among College Students
Social Networking sites have emerged as college studentsâ number one source of communication. Facebook, ranked the number one SNS among college students, has gone from a student-only environment to the general public. In addition to exploring how college students are using the sire, I explore if students sex and year in school play a significant role in opinions about the site and how it is being used. Through a sample of 149 undergraduate college students, findings suggest that students seem to be using Facebook in the same ways and for the same reasons with little variation. Furthermore, my research proves that certain opinions of Facebook vary with studentsâ sex and year in school by older students have strong opinions of who is using the site and negative implications with females being more cautious of their privacy
Gated âcommunitiesâ - their lifestyle versus urban governance
Today there is a widespread fear of crime on a global scale. This can be seen as a response to social inequalities, social polarisation and the fragmentation of cities, which has been caused by neo-liberalism. Worldwide, an increasing number of higher income groups have looked to security measures, such as cameras, fences, walls and gates, to separate themselves from other people in the city. These physical measures, in combination with hired guards, replace the âolderâ social control mechanisms, which are based on social cohesion within the community concerned. One may question whether those living in gated âcommunitiesâ indeed feel responsible for other urbanites. In other words, will such a hard closure (physically-marked segregation) lead to soft closure, reflected in social-cultural and political segregation. What is the impact of the lifestyle(s) of those living in gated communities on the dynamics of the city, urban identity and urban governance?
Smooth travelling-wave solutions to the inviscid surface quasi-geostrophic equation
We construct families of smooth travelling-wave solutions to the inviscid
surface quasi-geostrophic equation (SQG). These solutions can be viewed as the
equivalents for this equation of the vortex anti-vortex pairs in the context of
the incompressible Euler equation. Our argument relies on the stream function
formulation and eventually amounts to solving a fractional nonlinear elliptic
equation by variational methods
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