1Department of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510080, China 2Kirby Institute, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia 3Melbourne Sexual Health Centre, Alfred Health, Melbourne, VIC 3053, Australia 4Central Clinical School, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC 3004, Australia 5School of Public Health and Prevent...

International Journal of Production Research Publication details, including instructions for authors and subscription information: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t713696255 Empirical relationships between some manufacturing practices and performance M. A. Karim a; A. J. R. Smith a; S. Halgamuge a a Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, University of Melbourne, ...

1The Kirby Institute for Infection and Immunity in Society (Formerly the National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research), Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia 2 Infectious Diseases Unit, Alfred Hospital and Monash University, Melbourne, VIC 3004, Australia 3AIDS Clinical Center, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo 162-8655,...

Programmed cell death (PCD) is an essential part of the defence response in plants and animals against pathogens. Here, we report that PCD is also involved in defence against pathogens of fungi. Vegetative incompatibility is a self/non-self recognition system in fungi that results in PCD when cells of incompatible strains fuse. We quantified the frequency of cell death associated with six veget...

To find markers linked to vegetative incompatibility (vic) genes in the chestnut blight fungus, Cryphonectria parasitica, we constructed a preliminary linkage map. In general, this map is characterized by low levels of polymorphism, as evident from the more than 24 linkage groups observed, compared to seven expected from electrophoretic karyotyping. Nonetheless, we found markers closely linked ...

■ The comparison of disparate interventions for the prevention and management of osteoarthritis (OA) is limited by the quality and quantity of published efficacy studies and the use of disparate measures for reporting clinical trial outcomes. ■ The “transfer to utility” technique was used to translate published trial outcomes into a health-related quality-of-life (utility) scale, creating a com...

The latest Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6) proposes new shared pathways (SSPs) that incorporate socioeconomic development with more comprehensive and scientific experimental designs; however, few studies have been performed on the projection of future multibasin hydrological changes in China based CMIP6 models. In this paper, we use Equidistant Cumulative Distribution Func...

Reinforcement learning (RL) has had its fair share of success in contact-rich manipulation tasks but it still lags behind benefiting from advances robot control theory such as impedance and stability guarantees. Recently, the concept variable (VIC) was adopted into RL with encouraging results. However, more important issue remains unaddressed. To clarify challenge stable RL, we introduce term a...

Iben Sørensen, Filomena A. Pettolino, Sarah M. Wilson, Monika S. Doblin, Bo Johansen, Antony Bacic and William G. T. Willats Department of Biology, The University of Copenhagen, Ole Maaløes vej 5, Copenhagen DK-2200, Denmark, Plant Cell Biology Research Centre, School of Botany, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Vic. 3010, Australia, Department of Biology, The University of Copenhagen, Østerf...

D. Raffelt, J-D. Tournier, J. Fripp, N. Lepore, S. Crozier, A. Connelly, and O. Salvado The Australian E-Health Research Centre, CSIRO, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, Brain Research Institute, Florey Neuroscience Institutes (Austin), Melbourne, VIC, Australia, Department of Medicine, University of Melbourne, Me...