February 4, 2003

AFRL - IF - RS - TR - 2003 - 28 Final Technical Report February 2003 MICROELECTROMECHANICAL ( MEMS ) - BASED DATA STORAGE

Astronomy Astrophysics manuscript no. H4001 February 17, 2003

Finite Geometries, First Irsee Conference, 16-21 February, 2003

The conference was held in the small southern German town of Irsee in a former monastery. Outside, the ground was covered in snow. Inside there were 48 talks and 81 participants. The six main lectures were as follows: This volume contains 18 papers based on the talks given. They may be divided into six categories with their numbers of papers as follows:

Feral cat control research: Western Shield review— February 2003

The feral cat (Felis catus) is recognised as a significant threat to fauna conservation in Western Australia, particularly in arid and semi arid regions of the State. Not only do feral cats prey on native fauna and have the potential to spread diseases, but they have proven to be an obstacle to fauna reintroduction programs. Western Shield fox baiting strategies have been ineffective against fe...

Published Ahead of Print on February 13 , 2003 as 10 . 1200 / JCO . 2003 . 09 . 081

Purpose: Using a 2 3 2 factorial design, we studied the adjuvant chemotherapy of women with axillary node–positive breast cancer to compare sequential doxorubicin (A), paclitaxel (T), and cyclophosphamide (C) with concurrent doxorubicin and cyclophosphamide (AC) followed by paclitaxel (T) for disease-free (DFS) and overall survival (OS); to determine whether the dose density of the agents impro...