Many hydrocarbon reactions of interest involve either poorly characterized reactants and products andor large numbers of simultaneous reactions. An important step in understanding the behavior of such systems is to develop quantitative pictures of the feeds and products and the transformations which connect them. The processes for constructing these reaction visualizations is illustrated by exa...

This mainly speculative paper describes the activities of the Discovery in Design (DiD): Peoplecentred Computational Issues (DiD) Cluster which has been established under the UK AHRC and EPSRC ‘Design for the 21 st Century’ Initiative (D21C). The objectives of this initiative are to promote the formation of new communities of design researchers, practitioners and end users and to build a common...

This paper represents the first theoretical account of ‘HEADROOM’, a sitespecific interactive art installation produced by Paul Sermon in Taipei as the successful recipient of the 2006 Taiwan Visiting Arts Fellowship. This residency programme was a joint initiative between Visiting Arts, the Council for Cultural Affairs Taiwan, British Council Taipei and Arts Council England. The development of...

The papers in this special issue of Human Biology, which derive from a conference sponsored by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Center for the Evolution of Cultural Diversity, lay some of the foundations for an empirical macroevolutionary analysis of cultural dynamics. Our premise here is that cultural dynamics-including the stability of traditions and the rate of origination of ...

To cite: Heron J, Barry E, Duncan F, et al. Med Humanit 2016;42:63–64. To be ‘compassionate’ is to share the passion— etymologically, to suffer together. For some clinicians, there is an understandable tension between this compassion (to feel pity) and the imperative of diagnosis (to know thoroughly). This tension became an explicit concern of the 2013 ‘Beckett on the Wards’ medical humanities ...

1 Division of Endocrinology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2 Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 3 Applied Health Research Centre (AHRC), St. Michael's Hospital University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 4 Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation, Ministry of Health Guyana, Georgetown, Guyana, 5 Guyana Diabetes and Foot Car...

Petrophysical evaluation of petroleum reservoirs is one of the most challenging tasks for hydrocarbon reserve determination. One critical petrophysical parameter is the water saturation which is normally calculated from Archie’s equation. Carbonate reservoirs, however, due to their complex mineralogy are not good candidates for Archie’s equation because Archie’s parameters are strongly dependen...

In a previous cross-linking study we have shown that the cytosolic aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR) complex has a heterotetrameric structure (Perdew, G. H. (1992) Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 182, 55-62). In this report, both cross-linked and [35S]methionine-labeled Hepa 1c1c7 cytosol were used to characterize the subunit composition of the AhR complex by immunoprecipitation with an AhR polycl...

an aquifer located within a petroleum processing plant in moín, costa rica, suffers hydrocarbon pollution. this study aimed to determine the ability of indigenous microorganisms from this site to degrade polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (pahs) to evaluate the feasibility of an eventual bioremediation process. aerobic conditions were found in the aquifer, while microbial analyses of the groundw...