This communication concerns the structure of the electromagnetic quantum vacuum in a disclinated insulator. It is shown that a nonzero vacuum energy density appears when the rotational symmetry of a continuous insulating elastic medium is broken by a disclination. An explicit expression is given for this Casimir energy density in terms of the parameter describing the disclination. ∗On leave fro...

Laboratoire d’Analyse, Traitement et Valorisation des Polluants de l’Environnement et des Produits, Département de Microbiologie, Faculté de Pharmacie, Monastir, Tunisie. Laboratoire de Traitement des Eaux Usées, Centre de Recherches et des Technologies des Eaux (CERTE), Technopole de Borj-Cédria, BP 273Soliman 8020, Tunisie. Laboratoire d’adaptation des plantes aux stress abiotiques, Centre de...

Karolinska Institutet, Neurobiology, Care Science and Society, Stockholm, Sweden Karolinska Institutet, 23 300, 141 83 Huddinge-Sweden Seattle University, College of Nursing, Seattle, WA, USA Seattle University, 901 12th Avenue, P.O. Box 222000, Seattle, WA 98122-1090, USA Högsätra servicehus, Högsätravägen 4c,Lidingö, StockholmSweden University of Alberta, Faculty of Nursing, Alberta, Canada U...

Instituto de Biofísica Carlos Chagas Filho, CCS, Bloco G, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro – UFRJ, Ilha do Fundão, 21949-900 Rio de Janeiro RJ, Brazil Universidade Veiga de Almeida – UVA, Rua Ibituruna, 108, Tijuca, 20271-901 Rio de Janeiro RJ, Brazil Programa de Pós Graduação em Metalurgia e Ciência dos Materiais, Centro de Tecnologia, COPPE, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro – UFRJ...

One con fate of t *Autho Center, (dnepsta Woods Hole Research Center, 149 Woods Hole Road, Falmouth, MA 02540, USA Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental da Amazônia, Avenida Nazaré, 669, CEP: 66035-170, Belém, Pará, Brazil School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611-6455, USA Centro de Sensoriamento Remoto, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, CEP: 31270...

Departamento de Biologia Geral, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas – ICB, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais – UFMG, Avenida Antônio Carlos, 6627, CEP 31270-901, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil Departamento de Ecologia e Biologia Evolutiva, Universidade Federal de São Carlos – UFSCar, Rodovia Washington Luiz, Km 235, CEP 13565-905, São Carlos, SP, Brazil Departamento de Hidráulica e Transportes, Cen...

IONS FOR SCALING ESCIENCE APPLICATIONS TO DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTS A StratUm Integration Case Study in Molecular Systems Biology Per-Olov Östberg1, Andreas Hellander2,3, Brian Drawert3, Erik Elmroth1, Sverker Holmgren2 and Linda Petzold3 1Dept. of Computing Science, Umeå University, SE-901 87, Umeå, Sweden 2Uppsala University, SE-751 05 Uppsala, Sweden 3University of California, Santa...

Department of Aquatic Resources, Institute of Coastal Research, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Skolgatan 6, Öregrund 742 42, Sweden Department of Aquatic Resources, Institute of Marine Research, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Turistgatan 5, Lysekil 453 30, Sweden Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, 106A Guyot Hall, Princeton, NJ 8544...

In 2005, we assessed the seroprevalence of neutralizing antibodies to avian influenza virus A (H5N1) among 901 residents of 4 villages in Thailand where at least 1 confirmed human case of influenza (H5N1) had occurred during 2004. Although 68.1% of survey participants (median age 40 years) were exposed to backyard poultry and 25.7% were exposed to sick or dead chickens, all participants were se...

Address for reprints: Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, 901 North Washington Avenue, Lansing, MI 48906-5137. Fax: 517-485-0801; e-mail: [email protected] ❚ This is the final of 3 papers developed by the SAEM Task Force on Physician–Patient Communication. This series of essential clinical communication issues concludes with a discussion of ED disposition planning, medicolegal considerati...