Repeated, extreme, or traumatic stressors can elicit pathological effects leading to many negative physical and psychological outcomes. Stressors can precipitate the onset of psychiatric diseases, or exacerbate pre-existing disorders including various anxiety and mood disorders. As stressors can negatively impact human psychiatric health, it is essential to identify neurochemicals that may conf...

At the northern part of The Netherlands closure dam Afsluitdijk is situated. It primary flood defense that closes off Lake IJssel from Wadden Sea to protect provinces against storm surges. This structure was built in 1930’s and needed be improved withstand foreseen increase surge conditions sea level rise. consists a 32 km long with five discharge sluices for regulating water at IJssel. Three t...

Corresponding author: Ms Catherine M Harper, Senior Epidemiologist, Central Public Health Unit Network — Brisbane Northside, Public Health Services, Queensland Health, PO Box 1507, Fortitude Valley QLD 4006. Telephone: +61 7 3250 8602. Facsimile: +61 7 3250 8595. E-mail: [email protected]. In August and September 2001, the Sunshine Coast Public Health Unit received notification...

Bdelloid rotifers, a class of freshwater invertebrates, are extraordinarily resistant to ionizing radiation (IR). Their radioresistance is not caused by reduced susceptibility to DNA double-strand breakage for IR makes double-strand breaks (DSBs) in bdelloids with essentially the same efficiency as in other species, regardless of radiosensitivity. Instead, we find that the bdelloid Adineta vaga...

The brain of mammalian hibernators is naturally protected. Hibernating ground squirrels undergo rapid and extreme changes in body temperature and brain perfusion as they cycle between lengthy torpor bouts and brief periods of euthermia called interbout arousals (IBAs). Arousal from torpor to IBA occurs rapidly, but there is no evidence of brain injury accompanying this extreme physiological tra...

This document describes the Ethernet Automatic Protection Switching (EAPS) (tm) technology invented by Extreme Networks to increase the availability and robustness of Ethernet rings. An Ethernet ring built using EAPS can have resilience comparable to that provided by SONET rings, at a lower cost and with fewer constraints (e.g., ring size).