At a fixed point in spacetime (say, x0), gravitational phase space consists of the space of symmetric matrices {F ab} [corresponding to the canonical momentum π(x0)] and of symmetric matrices {Gab} [corresponding to the canonical metric gab(x0)], where 1 ≤ a, b ≤ n, and, crucially, the matrix {Gab} is necessarily positive definite, i.e. ∑ uGabu b > 0 whenever ∑ (ua)2 > 0. In an alternative quan...

Archival tagging studies of southern bluefin tuna (SBT , Thunnus maccoyii) have revealed that juveniles residing in the Great Australian Bight (GAB) over the austral summer undertake seasonal cyclic migrations to the southeast Indian Ocean and the Tasman Sea during winter. However, there remains disagreement about the extent of mixing between juvenile SBT regularly caught by longline fleets sou...

Few field measurements are available to constrain the diffuse discharge (or vertical leakage) component of the water balance of the Great Artesian Basin (GAB), even though numerical modelling indicates that it accounts for over half of the outflow of the GAB in South Australia. High leakage rates are observed along the southwestern margin of the GAB where the aquifer is close to the surface wit...

Preterm birth adversely affects postnatal brain development. In order to investigate the critical gestational age at birth (GAB) that alters the developmental trajectory of gray and white matter structures in the brain, we investigated diffusion tensor and quantitative T2 mapping data in 43 term-born and 43 preterm-born infants. A novel multivariate linear model-the change point model, was appl...

Zusammenfassung Aus dem Bereich der Schulbuchforschung beschreiben wir exemplarisch, welche Herausforderungen, Chancen und Stolpersteine es gab, ein Rechercheinstrument einer deutschen Schulbuchsammlung zu einem internationalem Rechercheinstrument auszubauen. Hierbei standen vor allem das Erstellen und Erweitern einer gemeinsamen Repräsentationsbasis, sowie das Wiederverwenden existierender Lös...

We report the first complete nucleotide sequence of an African human T-cell lymphotropic virus type II. This new strain, called HTLV-II-Gab (Gab), was obtained from the uncultured peripheral blood mononuclear cells of a 44-year-old healthy Gabonese male who lived in a remote rural area, with neither history of blood transfusion nor sexual intercourse with non-Africans. Using nested PCR, 25 over...

At a fixed point in spacetime (say, x0), gravitational phase space consists of the space of symmetric matrices {F ab} [corresponding to the canonical momentum π(x0)] and of symmetric matrices {Gab} [corresponding to the canonical metric gab(x0)], where 1 ≤ a, b ≤ n, and, crucially, the matrix {Gab} is necessarily positive definite, i.e. ∑ uGabu b > 0 whenever ∑ (ua)2 > 0. In an alternative quan...