This paper describes the details of the identification and determination of tyrosine 0-sulphate in fibrinogen, fibrin and fibrinopeptide B, as already reported in preliminary communications by the author under his previous names (Bettelheim, 1954; Bettelheim-Jevons, 1958). The first indication of the presence of tyrosine in modified form came during work on the peptides liberated from bovine fi...

This conference series has been somewhat dominated by papers on experience from the UK. The first conference in Thredbo in May 1989 featured a large number of papers on the early experience of bus deregulation in Britain which occurred in October 1986. Papers that come to mind include general reviews by Beesley and by White and Turner and case studies by Hills (on Scotland) and by Donald and Pi...

Virtual organisations within and across enterprise structures are becoming mature as a potentially effective means for goal oriented business teamwork. Among the plentyful of support functions enabling the efficient cooperation in teams, team decision making is a very crucial one, but does not find adequate support in contemporary team software solutions. Even the most knowledgable results from...

In her article "Ambiguity, Children, Representation, and Sexuality" Catharine Lumby considers current and historical scholarly and popular debates about the representation of children, including concerns about their sexualisation in such representations. The article begins by examining images taken by photographers in the Victorian era, including Charles Dodgson and Julia Cameron, and asks not ...

The widespread use of phenolic antioxidants as stabilizers in foodstuffs raises the question of the manner of their disposal after intake by the animal body. It is intended to investigate the metabolism of several phenolic antioxidants, and in this paper some aspects of the metabolism in the rat and dog of 2:4:5-trihydroxybutyrophenone are discussed. This study was made during chronic-toxicity ...

More often than not, life teems with difficult problems. This is not less true if you happen to be a researcher in computational social choice; however, in this case you can spend considerable time focusing only on computational hardness. Collective decision making has been studied from various aspects: political science, economy, mathematics, logic, and philosophy have all contributed to the a...