Third report and inventory of monuments and constructions in the county of Caithness.

Herbert Maxwell, chairman.

Second report and inventory of monuments and constructions in the county of Sutherland.

Bibliography: p. xlv-xlvi.

Transactions of the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy.

Section titles vary slightly.

Recollections of a tour made in Scotland, A. D. 1803./

Mode of access: Internet.

Ninth report with inventory of monuments and constructions in the outer Hebrides, Skye and the Small Isles.

Herbert Maxwell, chairman.

An act for the preservation of the salmon fisheries in Scotland. 1828.

Mode of access: Internet.

Eighth report with inventory of monuments and constructions in the county of East Lothian.

Herbert Maxwell, chairman.

From the Atlantic to the Great Lakes : a history of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the St. Lawrence Seaway /

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Address of the Congregational Union in Scotland to their fellow Christians in the United States on the subject of American slavery.

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An account of five aerial voyages in Scotland, in a series of letters to his guardian, Chevalier Gerardo Compagni /

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Queen & co.'s manual of engineers and surveyors instruments. Construction, manipulation, care, theory and adjustments.

"First edition."

Characteristics of engineers and scientists, significant for their utilization and motivation.

Mode of access: Internet.

Parameters affecting the performance of wetting and drying in a two-dimensional finite element long wave hydrodynamic model

The marsh porosity method, a type of thin slot wetting and drying algorithm in a two-dimensional finite element long wave hydrodynamic model, is discussed and analyzed to assess model performance. Tests, including comparisons to simple examples and theoretical calculations, examine the effects of varying the marsh porosity parameters. The findings demonstrate that the wetting and drying concept of marsh porosity, often used in finite element hydrodynamic modeling, can behave in a more complex manner than initially expected.

Blind detection of PAM and QAM in fading channels

This correspondence considers block detection for blind wireless digital transmission. At high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), block detection errors are primarily due to the received sequence having multiple possible decoded sequences with the same likelihood. We derive analytic expressions for the probability of detection ambiguity written in terms of a Dedekind zeta function, in the zero noise case with large constellations. Expressions are also provided for finite constellations, which can be evaluated efficiently, independent of the block length. Simulations demonstrate that the analytically derived error floors exist at high SNR.

Lay perceptions of type 2 diabetes in Scotland:bringing health services back in

The growing prevalence of type 2 diabetes is placing Scottish health services under considerable strain. Consequently, diabetes services are undergoing a major process of reorganisation, including the devolvement of routine diabetes care/diabetic review from secondary to primary healthcare settings. This qualitative study was devised to explore newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes patients' perceptions of their disease and the health services they receive at a time when this restructuring of services is taking place. The sample comprised 40 patients resident in Lothian, Scotland, who had diverse experiences of services, some receiving GP-based care only, others having varying contact with hospital diabetes clinics. In-depth interviews were undertaken with patients, three times at six monthly intervals over 1 year, enabling their experiences to be tracked at critical junctures during the post-diagnostic period. Disease perceptions and health service delivery were found to be mutually informing and effecting. Not only did (different types of) health service delivery influence the ways in which patients thought about and self-managed their disease, over time patients' disease perceptions also informed their expectations of, and preferences for, diabetes services. We thus argue that there is a need for a reconceptualisation within the medical social sciences to take into account the context of healthcare and the economic/policy factors that inform health service delivery when looking at patients' disease perceptions. We also discuss the logistical and ethical challenges of drawing upon patients' perspectives, preferences and views in the design and delivery of future health services. © 2004 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.