I highlight a few general themes about blazars and their variability discussed in this workshop and then raise some outstanding open questions that will, hopefully, be answered in a future workshop. Figure 1: Time evolution of Levinson based on his comment about blazars that "the more I know about these objects, the less I understand them". The solid line decreasing with time shows the time evo...

Newly determined crystal structures suggest that the membrane-binding C2 domains of blood coagulation cofactors Va and VIIIa bind anionic phospholipids through protruding solvent-exposed hydrophobic residues, aided by a crown of positively charged residues and by specific hydrogen-bonding side chains.

We examine outstanding issues in the analysis and interpretation of the halo Li plateau. We show that the majority of very Li-poor halo Li-plateau stars (5 out of 8) have high projected rotation velocities vsini between 4.7 and 10.4 km s. Such stars have very different evolutionary histories to Li-normal plateau stars, and hence cannot be included in studies of Li depletion by normal halo dwarf...

On April 30, 2010, Jack Kenney retired from the ASM Journals Department after 25 years of service, for the last 13 of which he was the production editor for the Journal of Bacteriology. Over the years, Jack helped countless authors, reviewers, and editors to expedite the publication of JB papers. Because of his knowledge and sincere desire to help the microbiological community navigate the publ...

S (in alphabetic order by speaker surname) Speaker: Boris Adamczewski (Institu Camille Jordan & CNRS) Title: Combinatorics on words and Diophantine approximation Abstract: A very fruitful interplay between combinatorics on words and Diophantine approximation comes up with the use of numeration systems. Finite and infinite words occur naturally in Number Theory when one considers the expansion o...

In this paper we present an application of Bayesian forecasting methods to outstanding insurance claims. We assume that the time it takes for the claims to be completely paid is fixed and known, that payments are made annually and that the development of partial payments follow a stable pay-off pattern, from one year of origin to another. We present a Bayesian approach to forecasting either the...

The magnetic activity of the Sun, as manifested in the sunspot cycle, originates deep within its convection zone through a dynamo mechanism which involves non-trivial interactions between the plasma and magnetic field in the solar interior. Recent advances in magnetohydrodynamic dynamo theory have led us closer towards a better understanding of the physics of the solar magnetic cycle. In conjun...

This paper presents a discrete time model for the estimation of outstanding claims that comprises delay in two dimensions: reporting delay and valuation delay. This model allows a strict distinction between the cost of reported claims and the cost of unreported claims.

The membrane bilayer delimits the interior of individual cells and provides them with the ability to survive and function properly. However, the crossing of cellular membranes constitutes the principal impediment to gaining entry into cells, and the potential therapeutic application of many drugs is predominantly dependent on the development of delivery tools that should take the drug to target...

BACKGROUND Adolf Kussmaul was born in Graben, close to Karlsruhe, Germany, on February 22,1822. He graduated at Heidelberg University in 1845 and he received his medical degree in 1855. He made original descriptions, such as the ophthalmoscope, the gastroscope or endoscope, and Kussmaul signs, besides the respiration named after him. He was the first to perform a thoracocenteses, peritoneal and...