It is impossible to speak too highly of the various admirable and very practical contributions Ferguson made to the Society. They were, one and all, the result of patient research and, latterly, bore the fruits of his wide experience. His mind was a keen and critical one, and his literary style was most lucid and attractive. And now you will allow me to sound the personal note on this greatly b...

The n-localization property is preserved under the countable support iteration of suitably definable forcings. This solves a question of Ros lanowski and greatly simplifies the proofs in the area.

The existence of a linearized SUSY invariant for N = 8 supergravity whose gravitational components are usually called R was established long ago by on-shell superspace arguments. Superspace and string theory methods have also established analogous higher dimensional DR invariants. However, very little is known about the SUSY completions of these operators which involve other fields of the theor...

This paper examines the history of Homo erectus and Homo sapiens in the Austral-Asian region bisected by the PEP II (Pole– Equator–Pole) transect, from Siberian Russia, south through Asia, insular Southeast Asia, Australasia and Oceania. Current evidence is reviewed for the timing of the arrival of humans along PEP II, their subsequent expansion through the region and their concurrent developme...

Phytoplasmas are dangerous bacteria severely infecting agricultural production worldwide. In the present study, identification of phytoplasmas tomato plants showing symptoms such as small leaves, flower abnormalities, stunting, witches' broom, and reddening was performed. Five plants, two symptomatic three asymptomatic, were tested to verify phytoplasma infection. Total DNA isolated from 5 leaf...

HPV infections are common and the presence of the same high-risk type in cervical specimens can be due to reinfection or persistence. Persistent infection is the most important predictor for development of cervical carcinoma. The aim of this study was to validate PCR-RFLP with two sets of primers: MY09/MY11 that amplify a fragment of L1 and P1/P2 that amplify a fragment of E1 ORF. PCR product o...

The genus Bacillus comprises of a diverse group with a wide range of nutritional requirements and physiological and metabolic diversity. Their role in nutrient cycle is well documented. 16S rDNA sequences do not always allow the species to be discriminated. In this study 40 Bacillus spp. obtained from fish culture pond and 10 culture type strains were analysed for their genomic diversity by PCR...

A novel non-culture based 16S rRNA Terminal Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism (T-RFLP) method using the restriction enzymes Tsp509I and Hpy166II was developed for the characterization of the nasopharyngeal microbiota and validated using recently published 454 pyrosequencing data. 16S rRNA gene T-RFLP for 153 clinical nasopharyngeal samples from infants with acute otitis media (AOM) revea...

Molecular subtyping was used to investigate the epidemiology of human T-lymphotropic virus type II (HTLV-II) in the United States. Nested polymerase chain reaction of the HTLV-II long terminal repeat region followed by restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) analysis was performed on HTLV-II seropositive subjects including 97 U.S. blood donors without major risk factors for HTLV-II infe...