Tree-ring data from Virginia indicate that the Lost Colony of Roanoke Island disappeared during the most extreme drought in 800 years (1587-1589) and that the alarming mortality and the near abandonment of Jamestown Colony occurred during the driest 7-year episode in 770 years (1606-1612). These extraordinary droughts can now be implicated in the fate of the Lost Colony and in the appalling dea...

Using data from the FOCUS (E831) experiment at Fermilab, we present a new measurement for the Cabibbo-suppressed decay modeD0 → K+K−π+π−. We measure: Γ(D0 → K+K−π+π−)/Γ(D0 → K−π−π+π+) = 0.0295 ± 0.0011 ± 0.0008 . An amplitude analysis has been performed in order to determine the resonant substructure of this decay mode. The dominant components are the decays D0 → K1(1270) +K−, D0 → K1(1400) +K−...

Hideo YAMANAKA Professor Department of Civil and Environment Engineering University of Tokushima 2-1, Minami-Josan-Jima, Tokushima, 770-8506 Japan Fax: +81-88-656-7579 E-mail: [email protected] Tetsuo MITANI Associate Professor Department of Economics and Information University of Marketing and Distribution Sciences 3-1 Gakuen-Nishi-Machi, Nishi-Ku, Kobe 651-2188, Japan Fax:+81-78-7...

Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tokushima University, Tokushima 770-8505, Japan Usa Marine Biological Institute, Kochi University, Usa, Tosa, Kochi 781-1164, Japan The United Graduate School of Agricultural Sciences, Ehime University, Tarumi, Matsuyama, Ehime 790-8566, Japan Kochi Prefectural Deep Seawater Laboratory, Muroto, Kochi 781-7101, Japan *Author to whom correspondence shou...

Shigeki Hirano,1 Kotaro Asanuma,1,2 Yilong Ma,1,3 Chengke Tang,1 Andrew Feigin,1,3 Vijay Dhawan,1,3 Maren Carbon,1,3 and David Eidelberg1,3 1The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, Manhasset, New York 11030, 2Department of Neurology, Tokushima University Hospital, Tokushima 770-8503, Japan, and 3Departments of Neurology and Medicine, North Shore University Hospital and New York University...