A i2 inch square plastic bowl some 5 inches deep with sloping ramps has three strands of t inch copper tube fitted around the inside surface, the upper band about 1 inch below the rim, and each 1/16 inch apart A low voltage of 12 to 25 volts is applied to the tapes from a mains transformer or battery. Small animals are attracted up the ramps and into the bowl by a suitable bait; as they cross t...

OBJECTIVE A 3-bowl system is used for washing-up eating utensils on many expeditions when running water is not available. The utensils are washed in the first bowl until they are visibly clean, rinsed in the second bowl, and disinfected in the third bowl. The objective of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of this system in reducing bacterial loads on contaminated utensils and to compare i...

This article provides a review and synthesis of scholarly knowledge of Depression-era droughts on the North American Great Plains, a time and place known colloquially as the Dust Bowl era or the Dirty Thirties. Recent events, including the 2008 financial crisis, severe droughts in the US corn belt, and the release of a popular documentary film, have spawned a resurgence in public interest in th...

The title compound, C(24)BBrF(12)N(6) or Br-F(12)BsubPc (BsubPc is boronsubphtalocyanine), has a bowl-shaped structure with an approximate mol-ecular C(3v) symmetry characteristic of boronsubphthalocyanine compounds. In the crystal, mol-ecules are arranged in one-dimensional columns and the boron-subphthalocyanine units within each column are offset and angled in a bowl-to-ligand packing arrang...

Using county-level Vital Statistics of the United States data from 1974-2009, we employ a differencesin-differences framework comparing influenza mortality rates in Super Bowl-participating counties to non-participants. Having a local team in the Super Bowl causes an 18% increase in influenza deaths for the population over age 65, with evidence suggesting one mechanism is increased local social...

be doing—may be the fastest route toward a new global framework. The East-West Center is an education and research organization established by the U.S. Congress in 1960 to strengthen relations and understanding among the peoples and nations of Asia, the Pacific, and the United States. The Center contributes to a peaceful, prosperous, and just Asia Pacific community by serving as a vigorous hub ...

The growth and patterning of Drosophila wing and notum primordia depend on their subdivision into progressively smaller domains by secreted signals that emanate from localized sources termed organizers. While the mechanisms that organize the wing primordium have been studied extensively, those that organize the notum are incompletely understood. The genes odd-skipped (odd), drumstick (drm), sob...

In this paper, we classify all noncollapsed singularity models for the mean curvature flow of 3-dimensional hypersurfaces in $\mathbb{R}^4$ or more generally $4$-manifolds. Specifically, prove that every translating hypersurface is either $\mathbb{R}\times$2d-bowl, a 3d round bowl, belongs to one-parameter family oval bowls constructed by Hoffman-Ilmanen-Martin-White.

The B3LYP/6-31++G** density functional calculations were used to obtain minimum geometries and interaction energies between the molecular hydrogen and nanostructures of fullerenes, C20 (cage), C20 (bowl), C19Si (bowl, penta), C19Si (bowl, hexa). The H2 molecule is set as adsorbed in the distance of 3Å at vertical position from surface above the pentagonal and hexagonal sites of nanostructures. ...

This paper analyses the scope for collusive behaviour within the context of an international duopoly supergame in which both firms and monopoly labour unions interact strategically. We find that the presence of unions, implying an endogenisation of production costs, dramatically alters the incentives for inter-firm collusion. There are, however, strong incentives for the unions to collude, rais...