In March 2005, the Australian Broadcasting Authority finally delivered its report responding to Richard Alston's 68 complaints about coverage of the 2003 Iraq war on the ABC radio program AM. While the report found that AM's coverage was 'of a high standard overall', it upheld six further complaints for on the grounds that they breached the ABC Code of Practice's requirement of 'impartiality', ...

Scientists with the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and various government agencies and private institutions have provided a great deal of fundamental information relating spectral reflectance and thermal emittance properties of soils and crops to their agronomic and biophysical characteristics. This knowledge has facilitated the development and use of various remote sensing methods for non...

Neurogenesis in the mammalian adult brain is a well established phenomenon (for the recent reviews see Carpentier & Palmer, 2009; Kaneko & Sawamoto, 2009; Rodriguez & Verkhratsky, 2011) that is important in both young and aging brain (Galvan & Jin, 2007; Rao et al., 2006). The subventricular zone, subgranular layer of the dentate gyrus (DG), and cortex are the main sites of adult neurogenesis (...

The link between electrical activity, Ca2+ entry through voltage-gated channels, and transmitter or hormone secretion is a central issue in neurobiology. In peptidergic nerve terminals of the mammalian neurohypophysis (NHP), secretion is elicited by patterned bursts of action potentials (APs). All parameters of the bursts are important to elicit efficient secretion, including AP frequency, AP b...

High-quality motion planning can be quite expensive to perform, yet is critical for many video games. As a result, many approximations are employed to reduce costs. Common approximations include pathfinding on a grid or on a navigation mesh instead of in a real-valued world. As a result, the paths that are found are not immediately appropriate for use, and often require post-processing, such as...

Abiotic stresses in agroecology are caused by climatic factors (e.g., temperature and precipitation extremes), pollutants (e.g., heavy metals, gaseous pollutants) and salinity. In the context of global change, climatic factors become particularly important. The alarming, progressive alterations in climate caused by rising levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphe...

Background: Perinatal HIV transmission accounts for the majority of pediatric HIV infections. Little is known about the HIV-1 immune characteristics governing maternal to child transmission. V2-specific antibodies have been associated with protection against perinatal transmission and recently were identified as a potential correlate of protection in the RV144 vaccine trial. We sought to evalua...

from ambient levels of 360 mol mol 1 increased vegetative biomass by 40% and boll biomass by 20% (Reddy The consequences of elevated carbon dioxide concentrations et al., 1997). Open-top chamber experiments (Kimball ([CO2]) and N nutrition on cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) growth, and Mauney, 1993) showed that elevated [CO2] of 650 development, yield, and fiber quality were determined. Cotton c...