Many of us have been watching the Olympics this week (how about that Phelps?). The first week culminated with an exciting individual women’s gymnastics competition. Despite the home advantage (see Balmer and Nevill, 2003 in the annotated bibliography), Americans Nastia Liukin and Shawn Johnson took Gold and Silver respectively (63.325 and 62.725), with Chinese Yilin Yang winning Bronze (62.650)...

Highlights • Parasitic bronchitis (Husk) frequently diagnosed in cattle • Two outbreaks of botulism in cattle and one in sheep investigated • Bovine Babesiosis incidents in North Wales, The South West and Scottish borders • Parasitic gastroenteritis continuing to cause losses in sheep • Cases of acute fasciolosis in sheep provide an early warning of a high risk of disease • Histomoniasis (black...

An 18-vertical level primitive equation general circulation model was developed from previous models of the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory in order to study t,he lower stratosphere in detail. The altitude range covered was from the surface to 4 mb. (37.5 km.), the vertical resolution being optimized in the tropopause region to permit a more accurate calculation of the vertical transport ...

SINCE 1946 a meeting has been held monthly in the Royal Maternity Hospital, Belfast, during the months September to June. It has been attended by the staff of both maternity hospitals and by representatives from the Department of Pathology, the Ministry of Health, and the City Borough Healthi Department. At this meeting the monthly statistical reports for the Jubilee Maternity Hospital and the ...

BACKGROUND Murray Valley encephalitis virus (MVEV) is a mosquito-borne Flavivirus (Flaviviridae: Flavivirus) which is closely related to Japanese encephalitis virus, West Nile virus and St. Louis encephalitis virus. MVEV is enzootic in northern Australia and Papua New Guinea and epizootic in other parts of Australia. Activity of MVEV in Western Australia (WA) is monitored by detection of seroco...

emphasisedl the difficulties which hadl to be met in producinig such a report. Ihc recommen(latioins of the Royal College of Obstetricians and(l Gyvncologists had been a help in this respect. anld tilc report tolloWe(l thc plal suggested by their committee. The speaker sumnmiiarised the mainl features ol the} report, and compared them wvith similar reports fromii teni other hospitals in Great 1...

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