Editorial Board Rakesh Anand Zeneca Pharmaceuticals Johannes Bos University of Utrecht Anne Bowcock University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Jeff Chamberlain University of Michigan Medical School Nicholas Dracopoli National Center for Human Genome Research Joe Ecker University of Pennsylvania Ray Fenwick Dianon Systems, Inc. Kenshi Hayashi National Cancer Center Research Institute, Tokyo...

Acupuncture and acupressure are methods of traditional Chinese medicine that are used to balance a person?s life force, or qi (pronounced ?chee?). When a person?s qi is out of sync, it?s believed to cause illness or pain. While both acupuncture and acupressure are said to help increase flow through specific pathways in the body, there?s a pointed difference between these treatments. In acupunct...

The surface roughness of the substrate itself could play an important role for the bonding at the interface. In this paper, a correlation of the surface roughness of a rigid alumina substrate and its 2D model of estimated surface area has been studied using Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM). With rougher surface, the adhesive strength between a deposited copper film and the alumina substrate is hig...

Knowledge of the genetic characteristics, origin, and local adaptation chickens is essential to identify traits required for chicken breeding programs. Chee Fah Luang are black-boned breeds reared in Chiang Rai, Thailand. Chickens an important part economy socio-culture; however, diversity, origins these two have been poorly studied. Here, we investigated gene pool, origin using mitochondrial D...

Quantum error-correcting codes have gained prominence since the initial discovery of Shor and Steane. In 1998, Calderbank et al. presented systematic methods to construct binary quantum codes, called stabilizer codes or additive codes, from classical error-correcting codes. Since then the field has made rapid progress, many good binary quantum codes were constructed by using classical error-cor...

We prove that there exist only "nitely many nontrivial graphical t-(v; k; ) designs when k 6 4t=3. This improves a previous result of Betten et al. (Discrete Math. 197/198 (1999) 83–109). c © 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved. We use the notation and terminology of [1] and assume that the reader is familiar with the concept of graphical t-designs [2]. All polynomials in this note a...

This study was conducted to develop a protocol for micropropagation of grapevine (Vitis vinifera L.) cultivars Red globe and Superior by investigating their response three media Murashige Skoog (MS), Chee Pool (C2D), Woody Plant Medium (WPM) during the establishment stage besides impact four cytokinin types 6-benzylaminopurine (BA), 2-isopentyladenine (2iP), kinetin (Kin) thidiazuron (TDZ) at v...