A brief history of the introduction of Shape's fibroma virus into the Australian rabbit scene, outlining some of the emotions generated and some of their causes is given. Immunisation of rabbits against myxomatosis using Shape's fibroma is still banned in Australia except in approved scientific'institutions. The arguments leading to this ban are examined and rejected. Options for future protect...

Vaccinology is the science or method of vaccine development. Vaccinology was born with Edward Jenner’s discovery of smallpox vaccine that changed the world of medicine forever. The foundation that Jenner laid began a course of vaccine development and has been proved to be successful in infectious diseases such as small pox and expected to eradicate many more emerging diseases like, poliovirus i...

This paper provides a conceptual framework of multilateral bargaining in a bilaterally oligopolistic industry to analyze the motivations for horizontal mergers, technology choice, and their welfare implications. We first analyze the implication of market structure for the distribution of industry profits. We find that retailer mergers are more likely (less likely) if suppliers have increasing (...

Successful total RNA (totRNA) extraction is a prerequisite for a successful real-time PCR. In the present work we compared one manual and one automated totRNA extraction method for detection of Plum pox potyvirus (PPV) in leaves of different Prunus sp. using developed real-time RT-PCR assay. Advantages and disadvantages of compared methods are described in the view of sensitivity, reproducibili...

Der Artikel von Koch et al. [1] springt durch eine ranglistenförmige, vergleichende Punktebewertung der Lehrangebote zu kommunikativen und sozialen Kompetenzen an vielen deutschsprachigen Fakultäten ins Auge. Die Weckung der Aufmerksamkeit für diese Thematik ist sicherlich zu begrüßen. Schaut man genauer hin, ergibt sich aber eine Reihe von Fragen zu Konzeption, Methode, Ergebnissen, Ungereimth...

Ye-Ryoung Lee,1 Myoung-Sun Heo,1 Jae-Hoon Choi,1 Tout T. Wang,1,2 Caleb A. Christensen,1 Timur M. Rvachov,1 and Wolfgang Ketterle1 1MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms, Research Laboratory of Electronics, Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA 2MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms, Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambrid...

workers in the diseases of tropical countries. The terrible experiences of the recent epidemic of small-pox in British Guiana and other West Indian Isles has shown the necessity of amending the quarantine regulations and of bringing them into conformity with those at home. We need not enter into details of the new regulations as described by the Hon'ble Mr. Godfrey, M.B, the Surgeon-Genera], bu...