Cystic fibrosis (CF), the most common life-shortening genetic disorder in Caucasians, affects approximately 70 000 individuals worldwide. In 1998, the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (CFF) launched the CF Therapeutics Development Network (CF-TDN) as a central element of its Therapeutics Development Programme. Designed to accelerate the clinical evaluation of new therapies needed to fulfil the CFF mi...

Oligotrichids and choreotrichids are ciliate taxa contributing to the multi-step microbial food web and episodically dominating the marine microzooplankton. The global diversity and distribution of aloricate Oligotrichea are unknown. Here, the geographic ranges of the 141 accepted species and their synonyms in marine and brackish sea water are analyzed, using hundreds of taxonomical and ecologi...

Scanty information exists pertaining to the length-weight relationship (LWR) and length-length relationship (LLR) parameters of longsnouted catfish, Plicofollis argyropleuron in lotic systems throughout the northern part of Peninsular Malaysia. It is vital to reveal these biological properties of P. argyropleuron in Kuala Muda and Merbok estuary for future management and to increase knowledge a...

The violation of a classical Cauchy-Schwarz (CS) inequality is identified as an unequivocal signature of spontaneous Hawking radiation in sonic black holes. This violation can be particularly large near the peaks in the radiation spectrum emitted from a resonant boson structure forming a sonic horizon. As a function of the frequency-dependent Hawking radiation intensity, we analyze the degree o...

The pygmy grasshopper subfamily Cladonotinae and genera Epitettix Hancock, 1907, Pseudepitettix Zheng, 1995 and Tuberfemurus Zheng, 1992 are firstly recorded from Thailand. Three new species, namely Epitettixobtusus obtusus sp. nov. from provinces Nakhon Ratchasima and Chiang Mai, Pseudepitettix pimkarnae sp. nov. from province Saraburi and Tuberfemurus kanokwanae sp. nov. from province Sarabur...

Title of Dissertation: ESSAYS ON TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT Devesh Roy, Doctor of Philosophy, 2004 Dissertation directed by: Professor Arvind Panagariya Department of Economics This dissertation involves two set of papers. The first chapter contains a brief introduction of the issues covered in this thesis. In the first set of papers (chapters 2 and 3) I investigate the use of product standards in i...