Fatty acids are major components of plant lipids and can affect growth and development of insect herbivores. Despite a large literature examining the roles of fatty acids in conifers, relatively few studies have tested the effects of fatty acids on insect herbivores and their microbial symbionts. Particularly, whether fatty acids can affect the suitability of conifers for insect herbivores has ...

We give the explicit analytic development of any Jack or Macdonald polynomial in terms of elementary (resp. modified complete) symmetric functions. These two developments are obtained by inverting the Pieri formula. Résumé Nous donnons le développement analytique explicite de tout polynôme de Jack ou de Macdonald sur les fonctions symétriques élémentaires (resp. complètes modifiées). Nous obten...

The Air Operations Division of DSTO conducts operational analysis studies to help the Australian Defence Force (ADF) to select the most cost effective air platforms and related systems for Australian requirements and to optimise the use of equipment in service. Computer simulation studies are central to this activity. Intelligent software agents are used to represent human decision making withi...

The book under review contains the Proceedings of a Workshop held in 2003 in Edinburgh, UK. This workshop paid attention to (in fact, celebrated) the pioneering work by the mathematicians Henry Jack, Philip Hall and D. E. Littlewood on two new families of symmetric polynomials, and to the magnificent job done by Ian Macdonald to bring these two classes of polynomials together in a more general ...

Three Fingered Jack: Productively Addressing Platform Diversity

The paper presents a solution to improve the applet quality by allowing proof on Java Card annotated applets. It presents the chosen annotation language: JML that allows to formally specify each method and to give properties on fields. The innovative part of the paper is the presentation of the tools developed in the Gemplus Software Research Labs which allows proving the annotation by translat...

By SUHONG ZHANG, YING ZHANG, KATHRYN CHALONER Department of Biostatistics, The University of Iowa, C22 GH, 200 Hawkins Drive, Iowa City, IA 52242, U.S.A. [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] AND JACK T. STAPLETON Department of Internal Medicine, The University of Iowa and Iowa City VA Medical Center, SW54-15 GH, 200 Hawkins Drive, Iowa City, IA, 52242 U.S.A. ...

T Wo books currently oil the market. Jack Welch's Straight from the Gut* and Katharine Graham's A Personal HistoJ n offer much food for thought about leadership, as well as highlight the qualities M^\ frailties of successful leaders. The lives of Jack Welch and Katharine Graham reflect several of the core leadership competencies in the GHA Mission ("entered Leadership Model: personal integrity,...