Conference Review: 'B. S. Johnson'

Review of C . B . Martin ’ s The Mind in Nature ∗

C. B. Martin’s The Mind in Nature is a manifesto in favor of a comprehensive powersbased ontology, aiming to treat the actual and the modal, the causal and the constitutive, the scientific and the mathematical, and the physical and the mental, all by primary appeal to the notion of an irreducible qualitatively informed disposition (with some substratum thrown in for good measure). Like many man...

REVIEW OF B 0 s MIXING : PAST , PRESENT AND FUTURE

We review the experimental status of B 0 s –B 0 s mixing. After a brief historical overview, current studies of the time dependence of B 0 s oscillations are described, with an emphasis on the different experimental techniques used by the ALEPH, CDF, DELPHI, OPAL, and SLD Collaborations. To conclude, the outlook for future experiments is presented.

Atlantic Universities Geological Conference 2006 A B S T R A C

Again this year, abstracts from the annual Atlantic Universities Geological Conference (AUGC) are published in Atlantic Geology. This provides a permanent record of the abstracts, and also focuses attention on the excellent quality of the presentations and posters and the interesting and varied geoscience that they cover. The abstracts are published with fi nancial assistance from APICS. THE ED...

Sara B . Johnson Epidemiologic Studies in Pediatric Practice

Hepatitis B infection: review article

Hepatitis B virus (HBV) is an etiological agent of hepatitis B infection. Hepatitis B is a life-threatening disease that affects the liver. The clinical outcomes of the disease are varied from asymptomatic disease to serious complication such as cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Despite availability of the vaccine and appropriate treatment, hepatitis B infection still remains a majo...