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Meeting-place for Communities

Toru Ishida 3.1 Introduction Matching the advance of computer networks, various computer systems for supporting collaborative work have been studied. Those systems often provide desktop conferencing tools for the support of business meetings. However , meetings are not always of a business or formal nature. Casual meetings such as chatting at a coee break or in a passageway enrich our life. Tho...

The Canaries: an important biogeographical meeting place

We were delighted on two counts to be able to act as the conveners of the third biennial meeting of the International Biogeography Society (IBS) in Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife in January 2007. First, the conference facilities generously provided for our use by the Cabildo Insular de Tenerife made an excellent venue for the free-flowing discussion with colleagues old and new that is the hallmark...

The Meeting Place Problem: Salience and Search

of the Thirteenth Australian Economic Theory Workshop for their helpful comments and suggestions. Naturally, any errors or omissions are the sole responsibility of the authors. The notion of salience was developed by Schelling in the context of the meeting-place problem of locating a partner in the absence of a pre-agreed meeting place. In this paper, we argue that a realistic speciication of t...

PML bodies: a meeting place for genomic loci?

Promyelocytic leukemia (PML) bodies have been implicated in a variety of cellular processes, such as cell-cycle regulation, apoptosis, proteolysis, tumor suppression, DNA repair and transcription. Despite this, the function of PML bodies is still unknown. Direct and indirect evidence supports the hypothesis that PML bodies interact with specific genes or genomic loci. This includes the finding ...

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