Drosophila, Wnt, FGF, Jak/Stat, Rho, Rac, RhoGEF, Pebble, Naked Cuticle The site for the latest installment of the Fly Meeting (March 7–11) was downtown Philadelphia. The conference offered an illustration of all that is great about the Drosophila field bringing together evolutionary biologists, immunologists and everyone in between. Here I will provide a small sample of several advances from t...

We show that the oscillatory driving of crystal surfaces can induce pattern formation or smoothening. Depending on driving conditions, step bunching and meandering, mound formation, or surface smoothening may be seen in the presence of a kinetic asymmetry at the steps or kinks. We employ a step model to calculate the induced mass flux along misoriented surfaces, which accounts for surface dynam...

Anne Grinyer is a lecturer in the Institute for Health Research and in the School of Independent Studies at Lancaster University. She is a sociologist of health and illness and has a special interest in the construction of scientific and medical knowledge, the management of health risks and in qualitative research methods. She has recently written a book on young adults with cancer based on nar...

background: describing trend in tuberculosis (tb) over time can play an important role to assess the disease control strategies and predict the future morbidity and mortality. this study aimed to determine the incidence trend of smear‑positive pulmonary tuberculosis (sppt) in sub‑age and sex groups during the years of 1995–2012. methods: this retrospective cohort study was performed in 2015 by ...

Adam T, Agafonova N, Aleksandrov A, Altinok O, Alvarez Sanchez P, Anokhina A, et al. 2011. Measurement of the Neutrino Velocity with the OPERA Detector in the CNGS Beam. Available: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1109.4897v2. pdf [accessed 8 August 2012]. Bodnar LM, Siega-Riz AM, Simhan HN, Diesel JC, Abrams B. 2010. The impact of exposure misclassification on associations between prepregnancy BMI and adv...

We study the control of modulational instability and pattern formation in a nonlinear dissipative feedback system with a periodic modulation of the material refractive index. We use a one-dimensional photonic lattice in a single-mirror feedback configuration and identify three mechanisms for pattern control: bandgap suppression of instability modes, periodicity induced pattern modes, and orient...

We present some numerical results obtained from a simple individual-based model that describes clustering of organisms caused by competition. Our aim is to show that, even when a deterministic description developed for continuum models predicts no pattern formation, an individual-based model displays well-defined patterns, as a consequence of fluctuation effects caused by the discrete nature of...