We present here the first complete genome sequences of Sweet potato chlorotic fleck virus (SPCFV) from sweet potato in Australia and East Timor, and we compare these with four complete SPCFV genomes from South Korea and one from Uganda. The Australian, East Timorese, South Korean, and Ugandan genomes differed considerably from each other.

Roy Shore was the co-chair of a scientific panel that compiled the WHO Health risk assessment from the nuclear accident after the 2011 great East Japan earthquake and tsunami released in February. He talks to Fiona Fleck about the challenges of producing valid science in a highly charged environment.

Using the tool of two-scale convergence, we provide a rigorous mathematical setting for the homogenization result obtained by Fleck and Willis (J. Mech. Phys. Solids, 2004) concerning the effective plastic behaviour of a strain gradient composite material. Moreover, moving from deformation theory to flow theory, we prove a convergence result for the homogenization of quasistatic evolutions in t...

Robin Room is a member of a drugs policy modelling group that uses data to project what would happen to the harm caused by illicit drugs if policies or conditions changed. He talks to Fiona Fleck about alternative scenarios to today's illicit trade in drugs and the implications of different scenarios for public health.

introduction: this paper addresses a method for automatic detection of blood vessels in color fundus images which utilizes two main tools: image partitioning and local radon transform. material and methods: the input images are firstly divided into overlapping windows and then the radon transform is applied to each. the maximum of the radon transform in each window corresponds to the probable a...

aim: to report a patient with fundus flavimaculatus or macular dystrophy with flecks, who came to medical attention due to deteriorated vision in one eye and combined hamartoma of the retina and retinal pigment epithelium. case presentation: a 26 year old lady was referred with history of progressive decreased vision in both eyes since childhood with recently deteriorated vision in her right ey...

introduction: lead toxicity induces retinal cell apoptosis. vitamin c and garlic may decrease lead-induced apoptosis. this study was undertaken to investigate vitamin c and garlic protective effects on lead-induced apoptosis in eye retina. methods: pregnant wistar rats (n = 72) were divided randomly into 9 groups: (l) treated rats with lead acetate in drinking water and (l+aa) with leaded water...

As a preliminary to the consideration of automated, or more correctly mechanized, methods for the determination of total organic nitrogen the discussion of some general aspects of nitrogen determination is illuminating. There are at least four recent reviews, for example those by Bradstreet (1965), Fleck & Munro (I965), Jacobs (1965), and Munro & Fleck (1969), of the determination of nitrogen f...