We are today wholly accustomed to being daily bombarded with (often competing) claims about the seemingly limitless potential and promise of transgenics, predictive medicine, reproductive science, bioinformatics and much else besides. Stories of new breakthroughs and advances mesh with ‘our’ culturally embedded sense of the steady march of enlightenment progress. Each announcement seems to inde...

(also known as array genomic comparative hybridization, or array CGH) with established diagnostic procedures including G-banded karyotype and fragile X testing. Arrays for CMA tests are widely available, but have not yet entered general practice to the extent that generally agreed standards and references exist. Applying CMA to the entire genomes of 697 ASD patients, Shen et al. detected clinic...

Brown algae, the Phaeophyceae (or Fucophyceae; Christensen, 1978), are a class (or division, Phaeophyta; Papenfuss, 1951) of algae consisting mainly of complex, macroscopic seaweeds whose brown color comes from a carotenoid pigment, fucoxanthin, and in some species, various phaeophycean tannins. Of perhaps 2000 species (in 265 genera) of brown algae (Van den Hoek et al., 1995), less than 1% are...

In October 2008, the Department of Justice approved the Delta/Northwest merger, claiming the potential for substantial cost efficiencies with little or no harmful effects on competition. What makes this merger particularly interesting is that Delta and Northwest are codeshare partners. As such, the merger could have varying effects across different product types (pure online versus codeshare). ...

To further elucidate the migration history of the brown bears (Ursus arctos) on Hokkaido Island, Japan, we analyzed the complete mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) sequences of 35 brown bears from Hokkaido, the southern Kuril Islands (Etorofu and Kunashiri), Sakhalin Island, and the Eurasian Continent (continental Russia, Bulgaria, and Tibet), and those of four polar bears. Based on these sequences, we ...

To further elucidate the migration history of the brown bears (Ursus arctos) on Hokkaido Island, Japan, we analyzed the complete mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) sequences of 35 brown bears from Hokkaido, the southern Kuril Islands (Etorofu and Kunashiri), Sakhalin Island, and the Eurasian Continent (continental Russia, Bulgaria, and Tibet), and those of four polar bears. Based on these sequences, we ...

The goal of many agri-environment schemes (AES) is to increase biodiversity in agroecosystems. AES effects are often measured on invertebrates and birds; mammals as indicator species infrequently targets such researches. Our was evaluate the local-scale Hungarian Agri-Environmental Measures (AEM) European brown hare (Lepus europaeus), which shows decreasing population trends across Europe. We c...

交換性カリウム濃度がイネの放射性セシウム吸収に影響を与えない程度に高い条件では、玄米の放射性セシウム濃度は，土壌中の溶存態放射性セシウム量から精度よく予測できる。しかし，溶存態放射性セシウム量の実測には，大量の土壌溶液採取やろ過・濃縮等の多大な労力が必要である。そこで，亜鉛置換型プルシアンブルーを担持した吸着シートで土壌中の溶存態放射性セシウムを吸着し，シートに吸着した溶存態放射性セシウム量から玄米放射性セシウム濃度を簡易に予測することが可能か否かを検討した。表面をメンブランフィルターで被覆することにより土壌粒子の付着を防ぐ加工をしたセシウム吸着ディスクを現地水田の作土に2週間埋設し，溶存態放射性セシウムを回収した。吸着シートに回収された放射性セシウム量は，玄米放射性セシウム濃度と高い正の相関があった。分げつ期に吸着シートを埋設し，回収された放射性セシウム濃度を分析することで，大量の...

Telemedicine is the use of electronic information to communicate technologies provide and support healthcare when distance separates participants. Brown N. A brief history telemedicine. Teledentistry a field that combines telecommunications dentistry newer opportunities dental education delivery oral care. It involves delivering data in form clinical images from one point (spoke point) another ...

The galactic center compact radio source Sgr A was discovered on 13 and 15 February 1974 by Bruce Balick and Robert L. Brown using the Green Bank 35 km radio link interferometer (Balick & Brown 1974). We discuss other observations of this source in the years 1965-1985. Early VLBI observations are described. The name Sgr A was first used by Robert L. Brown (1982) and has become the accepted name...