Adrian Evans Festschrift

Adrian Dumitrescu

This column is devoted to maximum (respectively, maximum weight) independent set problems in geometric intersection graphs. We illustrate with one example in each class: (I) The following question was asked by T. Rado in 1928: What is the largest number c such that, for any finite set F of axis-parallel squares in the plane, there exists an independent subset I ⊆ F of pairwise disjoint squares ...

Adrian Bird

comprised populations that differ genetically in their response to the environment at spatial scales of around 600–800 km, undetected by microsatellite DNA variations. They caught cod from four populations within the Atlantic and looked at larval growth in the laboratory. Among all four populations, growth increased with food supply and temperature but the influence of changes in food and tempe...

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It will be seen that approximately 50% of animals died and that there was no significant difference between those receiving folic acid and a control solution of either dextrose or NaHCO3. The kidney weights of animals examined are shown in Table 3. (The numbers of animals dying on days other than the fourth were so small as to make comparison of kidney weights difficult. Therefore weights deriv...

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source of faecal iodine is endogenous thyroid hormone, a fraction of which is excreted into the bile (Myant, 1956). Further evidence for an endogenous origin of faecal iodine is obtained from balance studies in patients with abnormal thyroid function (Harrison et al., 1965a). Patients with thyrotoxicosis excrete significantly more iodine in the faeces than normal, ranging from 21 to 72 ,tg/ day...

G. Gayle Stephens Festschrift.