Lecture by Winner of 1999 JAPAN TAPPI Prize

GLUON CONDENSATE AND BEYOND The 1999 Sakurai Prize Lecture a

2005 MLA Sheep Prize Winner

Routine husbandry procedures, such as castration and tail docking, are known to induce pain and distress in lambs (Grant, 2004; Kent et al., 2001). This raises important welfare concerns and has attracted debate on the acceptability of such practices. The most common method of castration and tail docking involves the application of a rubber ring to the scrotum or tail, usually without anesthesi...

A Lecture on Filling Pseudoconcave Holes , Hayama , Japan , 1999

Let X− be a compact complex manifold with a strictly pseudoconcave boundary. We consider the following questions: Question 1: When does there exist a compact complex manifold V such that X− embeds into V as an open set? If such a V can be found then we say that X− is fillable. If dimX− ≥ 3 then using a result of Rossi we know that this can always be done, see [7]. However if dimX− = 2 then ther...

JCS Prize. 2013 winner: Liam Cheeseman.

We are pleased to announce that the winner of the 2013 JCS prize is Liam Cheeseman for his paper entitled ‘Specific removal of TACC3–ch-TOG–clathrin at metaphase deregulates kinetochore fiber tension’ (Cheeseman et al., 2013). The prize, $1000, is awarded annually to a junior researcher who is the first author of the paper that is judged by the Editors and Editorial Board to be the best eligibl...

EPS Prize Lecture

Delusions and misperceptions about the body are a conspicuous feature of numerous neurological and psychiatric conditions. In stark contrast to such pathological cases, the immediacy and familiarity of our ordinary experience of our body can make it seem as if our representation of our body is highly accurate, even infallible. Recent research has begun to demonstrate, however, that large and sy...