OVER the last several years the Department of Chemical Engineering of Monash University has been studying the general problem of mineral beneficiation of cobalt minerals. As part of the investigation, samples were obtained from the cobalt-mineralized area around Mount Cobalt, which is situated some 11o km south of Cloncurry in north-west Queensland, Australia. The geology of the area has been d...

The Ly6 superfamily, present in most metazoan genomes, codes for different cell-surface proteins and secreted ligands containing an extracellular motif called a Ly6 domain or three-finger domain. We report the identification of 36 novel genes coding for proteins of this family in Drosophila. One of these fly Ly6 proteins, coded by the gene boudin (bou), is essential for tracheal morphogenesis i...

The degradation of storage compounds just after germination is essential to plant development, providing energy and molecules necessary for the building of a photosynthetic apparatus and allowing autotrophic growth. We identified à bout de souffle (bou), a new Arabidopsis mutation. Mutant plants stopped developing after germination and degraded storage lipids, but they did not proceed to autotr...

The advent of unprecedented information and communication tools and technologies has pushed distance-learning system to the forefront of educational practice. The increased use of information and communication tools and technology provide open access to learning and teaching. Bangladesh Open University (BOU), the only distance education provider in Bangladesh, has been trying to adopt the use o...

 Numerous “repair” mechanisms have been developed to improve the training data for supervised learning (SL) systems including feature selection, noise correction, and active learning. These repair mechanisms myopically repair instances as long the estimated system performance continues to improve. Such general repair can lead to unnecessary repairs and overfitting from repair which can lower s...