Messaging is a basic service in sensornets. Yet the unique system and application prop-erties of sensornets pose substantial challenges for the messaging design: Firstly, dynamic wireless links, constrained resources, and application diversity challenge the architecture and protocol design

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This report focuses on the evidence about the health.consequences of smoking for women, and is intended to serve.the public health and medical communities as 'a unified source of existing scientific research. The major issues about tobacco use and women's health are examined, including trends in consumption, biomedical evidence, and determinants of smoking ititiation, maintenance, and cessation. The biomedical aspects ofsmoking are presented in terms of mortality, morbiplity, cardiovasculaidiseases, cancer, pregnancy and infant,health,, Teptic ulcer disease, drug reactions and, interactions, food constituents, and responses to,diagnostic tests. The psychosocial and behavioraj. aspects, of smoking in women are discussed, along with the docffiented increases in- the risk of contracting lung cancer, heart,disease, or lung disease. The harmful effects of pregnant mothers smoking behaviors, are also docudented. Adhitionally, recent data are enumerated to indicate a trend of,decreasing tobacco usage among women in response to the warnings of the gavernMent, voluntary agencie, and physicrins. (Author /NRB)' DOCUMENT RESUME cc 015 465

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energy in the primary tidal flow, and the use of air turbines located on-shore for ease of maintenance. HydroVenturi has built, tested and modeled a 0.6m aperture tidal power system in Grimsby, England. 14 Illustration 2: The HydroVenturi alpha test unit being sited in Grimsby, England, comprises a