I was a boy at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution during World War 1. I suppose one of my most vivid recollections of that period was reading the morning paper on July 2 1916 and seeing the entire front page filled with the names of those who had been killed the day before in the Battle of the Somme. I was a member of the Inst Officers Training Corps, and we took our training very serious...

On the morning of July 1st 1916, after five days of intense bombardment, the British Fourth Army under General Sir Henry Rawlinson, with a ration strength of 519,324 men, supported by two divisions of the Third Army, under General Sir Edward Allenby, advanced into what was to be known hereafter as the first day of the Battle of the Somme. Within the first 60 minutes of that attack, those troops...

The goal of the present paper is to calculate the limit of spectrum of the Hodge-de Rham operator under the perturbation of collapse of one part of a connected sum. It takes place in the general problem of blowing up conical singularities introduced in [Maz06] and [Row08]. Le but de ce travail est de calculer la limite du spectre de l’opéateur de Hodgede Rham dans la perturbation obtenue par ef...

The title of my paper comes from an essay by Václav Havel. In his essay, Havel addressed most evocatively the question of the unique power of words for thinking and to influence, for good or for harm, as well as to inform and to educate. As analysts our medium is the word. I suggest that it is of inestimable importance that we are able to listen deeply to our patients' words and to be aware of ...

In this note we describe the notion of a rectifiable scan and consider some applications [DH1], [DH2] to Plateau-type minimization problems. “Scans” were first introduced in the work [HR1] of Tristan Rivière and the second author to adequately describe certain bubbling phenomena. There, the behavior of certain W 1,3 weakly convergent sequences of smooth maps from 4 dimensional domains into S le...

Conservation attention on charismatic large vertebrates such as dolphins is often supported by the suggestion that these species represent surrogates for wider biodiversity, or act as indicators of ecosystem health. However, their capacity to act as indicators of patterns or trends in regional biodiversity has rarely been tested. An extensive new dataset of >300 last-sighting records for the Ya...

Ross River virus (RRV) infection is a debilitating disease that has a significant impact on population health, economic productivity, and tourism in Australia. This study examined epidemiologic patterns of RRV disease in Queensland, Australia, during January 2001-December 2011 at a statistical local area level. Spatio-temporal analyses were used to identify the patterns of the disease distribut...

Renvoyer dos a Smith et Marx, telle est en somme l’ambition du nouvel ouvrage d’Alessandro Stanziani. Ni liberalisation, ni proletarisation : le xviiie siecle plus encore xixe siecle sont ceux « travail contraint », un concept aujourd’hui fortement travaille par l’historiographie internationale deja mobilise l’auteur, qui reprend ici une partie de ses precedents travaux tout y ajoutant deux nou...

A reassortant, TyRh, was isolated after coinfection of MA104 cells with avian Ty-1 and simian RRV rotaviruses. Hybridization and serological studies showed that the reassortant's 4th gene, which encodes Vp4, was derived from the simian RRV rotavirus parent, whereas the remaining 10 genes were derived from the avian Ty-1 rotavirus parent.

Beat-to-beat variability of the QT interval (QTV) is sought to provide an indirect noninvasive measure of sympathetic nerve activity, but a formal quantification of this relationship has not been provided. In this study we used power contribution analysis to study the relationship between QTV and muscle sympathetic nerve activity (MSNA). ECG and MSNA were recorded in 10 healthy subjects in the ...