The AXD 301 ATM Switch is the flagship in Ericsson s line of Datacom products. A fault tolerant and highly scalable backbone ATM switch, AXD 301 has enabled Ericsson to take the lead in the migration of public telephony networks to becoming true multiservice networks, offering both quality voice and broadband data services on the same backbone. Telecom-class products exhibit some very special characteristics, which are fast becoming essential even in other products, such as traditional datacom products, trading systems and application servers:

Background and Purpose—The prevalence of spasticity after first-ever stroke is approximately 20%, but there are no health economic studies on costs associated with spasticity after stroke. The objective of our study was to estimate direct costs of stroke with spasticity for patients surviving up to 1 year after the stroke event in comparison to costs of stroke without spasticity. Methods—A representative sample of patients with first-ever stroke hospitalized at Uppsala University Hospital was eligible for our cross-sectional survey. All direct costs during 1 year were identified for each patient, including costs for hospitalization (acute and rehabilitation), primary health care, medication, and costs for municipality services. Swedish currency was converted to Purchasing Power Parities US dollar (PPP$). Results—Median age (interquartile range) was 73 years (18), and the proportion of women was 48%. The majority of the direct costs (78%) was associated with hospitalization, whereas 20 % was associated with municipality services during 1 year after a first-ever stroke. Only 1 % of all direct costs were related to primary health care and 1 % to medication. The level of costs for patients with stroke was correlated with the presence of spasticity as measured with the modified Ashworth scale (rs0.524) and with the degree of disability as measured with modified Rankin Scale (rs0.624). The mean (median, interquartile range) direct cost for stroke patients with spasticity was PPP $ 84 195 (72 116, 53 707) compared with PPP $ 21 842 (12 385, 17 484) for patients with stroke without spasticity (P0.001).

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Purpose and Scope of this Report In order to achieve acceptable indoor air quality in office environments, ASHRAE Standard 62-1989 (and subsequently ASHRAE Standard 1999 1) raised the recommended outdoor air ventilation rates from 5 cfm/occupant to 20 cfm/occupant. This four-fold increase has

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Recently a four-fold increase in the risk of malignant melanoma of the eye was associated with the use of radiofrequency transmitting devices, including mobile phones in Germany. We contrasted the incidence rates of this rare cancer with the number of mobile phone subscribers in Denmark. We