1 Metastasis Research Laboratory, Olivia Newton-John Cancer Research Institute, Heidelberg, VIC, Australia, 2 School of Cancer Medicine, LaTrobe University, Bundoora, VIC, Australia, 3 School of Medicine at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia, 4 Robinson Research Institute, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia, 5 Breast Cancer Risk and Preven...

In 1969, Vic Klee asked whether a convex body is uniquely determined (up to translation and reflection in the origin) by its inner section function, the function giving for each direction the maximal area of sections of the body by hyperplanes orthogonal to that direction. We answer this question in the negative by constructing two infinitely smooth convex bodies of revolution about the xn-axis...

Results of a recent calculation of the effective ∆S = 1 Hamiltonian at the next-to-leading order will be presented. These, together with an improved treatment of hadronic matrix elements, are used to evaluate the measure for direct CP-violation, ε/ε, at the next-to-leading order. Taking mt = 130GeV , ΛMS = 300MeV and calculating 〈Q6〉 and 〈Q8〉 in the 1/N approach, we find in the NDR scheme ε/ε =...

Yann M. Kerdiles,1,8,* Francisca F. Almeida,2,3,8 Thornton Thompson,4,8 Michael Chopin,2,3,8 Margaux Vienne,1 Pierre Bruhns,5,6 Nicholas D. Huntington,2,3 David H. Raulet,4,9 Stephen L. Nutt,2,3,9 Gabrielle T. Belz,2,3,9 and Eric Vivier1,7,9 1Centre d’Immunologie de Marseille-Luminy, Aix Marseille Université, INSERM, CNRS, Marseille, France 2Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, ...

Aiming to reduce herbicide leaching, "in situ" adsorption of herbicide-micelle formulations to soils was explored. Sulfentrazone or metolachlor were solubilized in cationic micelles, and these herbicide-micelle formulations were applied to sandy and alluvial soils. Sulfentrazone adsorption to the soils was negligible; however, its adsorption via its solubilization in micelles and their adsorpti...

We have made experimental studies into the enzymatic hydrolysis of cellobiose within the temperature range of 40°C to 70°C at pH 4.9, by using b-1,4-glucosidase from Aspergillus niger. At 70°C there was significant enzyme deactivation, which could be fitted to a potential deactivation model with values of n equal to 1.09 and kd to 0.1564 (g/l) 20.09 min, whereas the rate of hydrolysis could be ...

M. Maslen, M. T. Batchelor,2,3,* and J. de Gier Department of Mathematics, Mathematical Sciences Institute, Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200, Australia Department of Theoretical Physics, Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering, Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200, Australia Centre for Mathematics and its Applications, Mathematical Sciences Institute, ...

The history of sheep scab is briefly discussed since it was first mentioned in 180 BC. It was probably introduced to South Africa by the early settlers and was mentioned as a problem by Simon van der Stel, although its cause was only discovered in 1809. Various measures taken over the centuries to control or eradicate the disease, which has always been of considerable economic importance, are d...

Differential evolution (DE) is an efficient and robust evolutionary algorithm and has wide application in various science and engineering fields. DE is sensitive to the selection of mutation and crossover strategies and their associated control parameters. However, the structure and implementation of DEs are becoming more complex because of the diverse mutation and crossover strategies that use...

Clinical ethics committees (CECs) are increasingly used in UK health care (Slowther et al., 2004a). However, there has been little debate about their use in infertility units. Current HFEA guidance on CECs encourages their use in aiding ethical decision making but this is not required by the code of practice or obligated by law. It will be argued that the HFEA should strengthen its guidance on ...