The obliquebanded leafroller, Choristoneura rosaceana (Harris) (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae), is a serious pest of apples and other tree crops throughout North America. A review of temperature dependent development and models show that five different lower thresholds for development are published and used as the basis of heat-driven phenology models. We present a small lab data set of C. rosaceana...

Dear Editor, It was with great sadness that we learnt of the death of Prof Barrie Jones on 19 August 2009 in Tauranga, New Zealand, aged 88. He was admired worldwide for his work in developing the concept of prevention of blindness and for establishing the International Centre for Eye Health (publishers of the Community Eye Health Journal) in 1981. He was in fact responsible for encouraging the...

William Parry-Jones, who died in July at the age of sixty-two, was Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Glasgow and Honorary Consultant to both the Greater Glasgow Mental Health Services Trust and the Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Yorkhill. A most distinguished clinician and teacher, Parry-Jones was also a productive and influential historian of psychiatry. His ...

background: detecting bence-jones protein in urine is essential for determining plasma cell dyscrasia and multiple myeloma. conventionally, acid-heat precipitation assay is used for detecting bence-jones protein in most medical laboratories; however, because of the low accuracy of this test, other more sensitive tests like urine electrophoresis are recommended.  materials and methods: in this s...

We consider an asymptotic expansion of Kashaev’s invariant or of the colored Jones function for the torus link T (2, 2m). We shall give q-series identity related to these invariants, and show that the invariant is regarded as a limit of q being N -th root of unity of the Eichler integral of a modular form of weight 3/2 which is related to the ŝu(2)m−2 character.

The theory of link-homotopy, introduced by Milnor, is an important part of the knot theory, with Milnor’s μ̄-invariants being the basic set of link-homotopy invariants. Skein relations for knot and link invariants played a crucial role in the recent developments of knot theory. However, while skein relations for Alexander and Jones invariants are known for quite a while, a similar treatment of M...

Let M be a von Neumann algebra, ' a faithful normal state and denote by M ' the xed point algebra of the modular group of '. Let U M and U M ' be the unitary groups of M and M '. In this paper we study the quotient U ' = U M =U M ' endowed with two natural topologies: the one induced by the usual norm of M (called here usual topology of U '), and the one induced by the pre-Hilbert C-module norm...

We give a new definition of the Jones polynomial. Let L be an oriented knot or link obtained as the plat closure of a braid β ∈ B2n . We define a covering space C̃ of the space of unordered n-tuples of distinct points in the 2n-punctured disk. We then describe two n-manifolds S̃ and T̃ in C̃ , and show that the Jones polynomial of L can be defined as an intersection pairing between S̃ and βT̃ . Our c...

We introduce and discuss Jones pairs. These provide a generalization and a new approach to the four-weight spin models of Bannai and Bannai. We show that each four-weight spin model determines a " dual " pair of association schemes.