For over three decades, government subsidies have been a major source of funds for private schools in Australia and private schools now enrol over one third of all students. Analysing administrative and participation data, we find that Australian private schools have used government subsidies to increase the quality of their services (ie. to reduce student: teacher ratios) rather than to reduce...

Misao Fukuda*, Kiyomi Fukuda, Takashi Shimizu, Miho Nobunaga, Anne Grete Byskov, and Claus Yding Andersen M&K Health Institute, 30-9 Kariya, Ako, Hyogo 678-0239, Japan Shimizu Women’s Clinic, 2-2-4 Minamiguchi, Takarazuka, Hyogo 665-0011, Japan Laboratory of Reproductive Biology, Juliane Marie Center for Children, Women and Reproduction, Rigshospitalet, Section 5712, University Hospital of Cope...

SHIFTWORK INTERNATIONAL NEWSLETTER The official newsletter of the Scientific Committee on Night and Shiftwork of the International Commission on Occupational Health June 2003, Volume 20, Number 1 ISBN 0265-5357 Published by Tsuyoshi Kawakami and Kazutaka Kogi Institute for Science of Labour 2-8-14, Sugao, Miyamae-ku, Kawasaki 216, Japan (Fax: +81-44-977-7504; E-mail: [email protected], k.kog...

The theory of electromagnetically induced transparency ~EIT! in a plasma @S. E. Harris, Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 5357 ~1996!# is examined in the context of a bounded system. It is found via particle simulations that an overdense plasma slab reflects short pulses even in the presence of an EIT passband. However, a two-frequency laser, or ‘‘beatwave,’’ will cascade into a Stokes satellite with a freq...

The One-way Active Measurement Protocol (OWAMP), specified in RFC 4656, provides a common protocol for measuring one-way metrics between network devices. OWAMP can be used bi-directionally to measure one-way metrics in both directions between two network elements. However, it does not accommodate round-trip or two-way measurements. This memo specifies a Two-Way Active Measurement Protocol (TWAM...

Weobtain explicit expressions of the number of close-packed dimers and entropy for three types of lattices (the so-called 8.8.6, 8.8.4, andhexagonal lattices)with cylindrical boundary condition and the entropy of the 8.8.6 lattice with toroidal boundary condition. Our results and the one on 8.8.4 and hexagonal lattices with toroidal boundary condition by Salinas and Nagle [S.R. Salinas, J.F. Na...

The Network of Cancer Genes (NCG) collects and integrates data on 736 human genes that are mutated in various types of cancer. For each gene, NCG provides information on duplicability, orthology, evolutionary appearance and topological properties of the encoded protein in a comprehensive version of the human protein-protein interaction network. NCG also stores information on all primary interac...