Canavan disease is a severe progressive leukodystrophy characterized by swelling and spongy degeneration of the white matter of the brain. It is an autosomal recessive disease found more frequently among Ashkenazi Jews. The clinical features are those of severe mental retardation with inability to gain developmental milestones. Hypotonia, head lag and macrocephaly are characteristic of Canavan ...

It is claimed that second generation expert systems provide a means of solving some of the problems put forward recently by writers on AI and archaeology (Huggett 1985, Huggett and Baker 1985, Baker 1986, Reilly 1985). Various kinds of second generation expert system are presented in particular a variant I call the arguing expert system (AES). A program the Argument Support Program for Archaeol...

In yeast, septins form rings at the mother-bud neck and function as diffusion barriers. In animals, septins form filaments that can colocalize with other cytoskeletal elements. In the filamentous fungus Aspergillus nidulans there are five septin genes, aspA (an ortholog of Saccharomyces cerevisiae CDC11), aspB (an ortholog of S. cerevisiae CDC3), aspC (an ortholog of S. cerevisiae CDC12), aspD ...