Malta Research Articles

Letter from Malta

Letter from Malta

Chesterton’s visit to Malta

Chesterton’s visit to Malta

Chesterton in Malta

Chesterton in Malta

Chesterton Institute in Malta

Chesterton Institute in Malta

AS18 Implementing a registry for out-of-hospital cardiac arrests in Malta

AS18 Implementing a registry for out-of-hospital cardiac arrests in Malta

Nurses of the world unite in Malta

Nurses of the world unite in Malta

Dealing with ICE in Malta

Dealing with ICE in Malta

Malta: building your SPV on solid foundations

Malta: building your SPV on solid foundations

Nutritional content of popular malt drinks produced in Nigeria

Five popular commercial brands of malt drinks (Maltina, Malta Guinness, Amstel Malt, Hi-Malt and Grand Malt) produced in Nigeria were analyzed for pH, conductivity, turbidity, total dissolved solids, total soluble solids, level of bitterness, reducing sugar, vitamins A and C and minerals. Malt drinks were found to be acidic with pH range of 4.4 - 4.6. Maltina has the highest conductivity of 2.93 mS/cm and a TDS of 1480 mg. Bitterness level ranged from 11 - 13 Bu (Grand Malt) and 15 - 17 Bu (Amstel Malta). The reducing sugar content was found to be high and it ranged from 693.45 - 923.37 mg/dl. Vitamin A content of the drinks were in the range of 40.99 (Grand Malt) – 49.51 mg (Malta Guinness) and Vitamin C ranged from 5.69 (Grand Malt) - 9.97 (Maltina); these values were adequate, meeting Dietary Reference Intakes (DRIs). The content of iron, zinc, cadmium, calcium, copper, chromium, manganese, nickel and lead was negligible, while the content of calcium and sodium was low. Key words: Malt drinks, minerals, turbidity, conductivity, reducing sugar and dietary reference intakes.

Malta takes control

Malta takes control

A scholarly monument to Malta’s history

A scholarly monument to Malta’s history

Trent and the Clergy in Late Eighteenth-Century Malta

Trent and the Clergy in Late Eighteenth-Century Malta

Edwards v. Malta

Edwards v. Malta

CALCAREOUS PLANKTON HIGH RESOLUTION BIO-MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY FOR THE LANGHIAN OF THE MEDITERRANEAN AREA

High-resolution quantitative and qualitative analyses of the planktonic foraminifer and calcareous nannofossil content have been carried out on three Middle Miocene sections, from the Mediterranean area. Such sections (Cretaccio section, Tremiti Islands, Southern Italy; Moria section, Marche Region, Central Italy; DSDP Site, 372 succession, Balearic Basin), all well known in the literature, have been chosen because of their high-quality biostratigraphic potential. Remarkable magnetostratigraphic data were provided by the Site 372 succession where all chrons and subchrons of the interval C5Br-C5AAn have been recognised. The investigated interval falls between the First Occurrence (FO) of Praeorbulina glomerosa sicana and the Last Occurrences (LO) of Sphenolithus heteromorphus and Globorotalia peripheroronda. The LO of S. heteromorphus was detected in the uppermost part of the investigated sequence of Site 372 at the same stratigraphic level as the G. peripheroronda LO. A drastic decrease in abundance of S. heteromorphus (Last Common Occurrence -LCO) was detected slightly below its last occurrence; this event is well correlatable with the same event astronomically calibrated at Ras-il Pellegrin section (Malta Island), which has been recently ratified as the Global Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) for the base of the Serravallian by the International Union of Geological Sciences. The stratigraphic correlation of the studied sections is based on first and last occurrences, abundance fluctuations of selected taxa and additional biohorizons. In particular the peculiar distribution pattern of some taxa, e.g. Paragloborotalia siakensis and Helicosphaera waltrans, offered the opportunity to increase the biostratigraphic resolution of the Langhian interval. The resulting integrated calcareous plankton bio-magnetostratigraphic scheme represents the downward extension of that one previously established for the Serravallian - Tortonian interval. The biostratigraphic correlation of the studied sections with the Langhian historical Stratotype pointed out its low degree of reliability. On the other hand, none of the sections here studied is suitable to be proposed as candidate for defining the Langhian GSSP. Thus the problem of finding, in the Mediterranean area, a valid section which could yield a new GSSP for the Langhian Stage is still open.

Welcome to the World Medical Association

Extracted from text ... The Geneva Convention, recited by most graduates upon admission to the medical profession, and the Helsinki Declaration, which provides ethical principles for medical research involving human subjects, have become part of the everyday vocabulary of physicians throughout the world. In these sad times of escalating conflict we are increasingly grateful for the declarations of Tokyo, which provides 'guidelines for physicians concerning torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment in relation to detention and imprisonment', and Malta, which describes 'the ethical management of hunger strikes'. All of these plus regulations for 'the care of the sick and ..

?al Kirkop: a village in Malta – By Jeremy Boissevain

?al Kirkop: a village in Malta – By Jeremy Boissevain

Computing at the Malta Statistics Office, 1947-1970

Malta's establishment of a Statistics Office in 1947 occurred amid political instability and an economic depression. The official compilation and timely publication of statistics by a central government agency - made possible by the introduction of tabulating equipment soon after the Office's creation - proved invaluable for the development of a planned economy despite initial skepticism.

Assessment of waste management in a brewing industry in Nigeria

The quest by man to satisfy his domestic and industrial needs has usually resulted in the generation of offensive by – products in terms of industrial wastes in our environment. The hazards caused by these wastes in our environment have been of great concern to the individuals and the federal government. The management of brewery effluent by Guinness Nigerian Plc, Benin – City, was thoroughly studied. The stout and Malta lines were waste generation is prominent were selected for the case study to analyze for the temperature, the pH, the biological oxygen demand (BOD), the chemical oxygen demand (COD) and the total suspended solid (TSS). The obtained values were compared with the Federal Environmental Protection Agency (FEPA) recommended standard values. Mean temperature values of and mean pH values of and mean values of the biological oxygen demand of and were obtained for the stout and Malta lines respectively. Also for the chemical oxygen demand, mean values of and were obtained for stout and Malta lines, while the effluent was also characterized by high total suspended solids with mean values of and for the stout and Malta lines respectively. It was discovered that the values were quite higher than the Federal Environmental Protection Agency (FEPA)'s standard values. This shows that the effluents from the company are not effectively managed as they are not properly treated before discharging them into the river. IJONAS Vol. 3 (1) 2007: pp. 61-68

Enlargement costs of the common agricultural policy.

The extent of the EU meant to include 10 new Member States (Czech Republic, Cyprus, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia and Hungary) starting from the 1st of May 2004 represented a historic reference for the process of reconstruction of the Europe after centuries of destructive segregations induced by wars and ideological conflicts. The whole Europe will thus achieve political stability and determined security, as well as an extent of the internal market from 380 to 454 million people. This extended market will also provide new opportunities for the development of the European agriculture and of the Common Agricultural Policy of the EU (CAP). The present work relies on a series of studies performed by DIW (Berlin/Gottingen), IBO/LEI (Haga) and IAMO (Halle), according to these studies the authors revealed the budgetary impacts resulting from the extent of the European Union and implications in agriculture.

Online Brazilian Journal of Nursing celebrates its fourth anniversary

The OBJN was established in April 23rd, 2002, under Isabel Cruz editorship. The OBJN has received more than 23,000 visits. The geographic origin of the authors and readers is from Brazil, United States, Canada, Portugal, United Kingdom, Philippines, Australia, Spain, Uruguay, Sweden, and others (Malta, Iran, Thailand, South Africa, for example). The journal plays an important role in the process of knowledge dissemination and education in nursing while in raises nurses' attention and responsibility towards societal issues as political and economic empowerment.