This article was accepted under the editorship of David A. F. Haaga. This paper is drawn from a doctoral dissertation by the first author, entitled “Parenting and Family Support in Primary Care Settings,” which was supervised by the second author. Special thanks go to Dr. Jan Nicholson, School of Public Health, Queensland University of Technology, who as associate supervisor provided invaluable...

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In this issue of the Journal of Infectious Diseases, Sakabe et al report that the polymerase acidic (PA) protein component of the H5N1 influenza RNA-dependent RNA polymerase affects cytokine production in human macrophages and may be important in determining pathogenicity in mice [1]. They imply that PA may be relevant to the increased mortality mediated by hypercytokinemia in H5N1 infection in...

Clique sizes for chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) grooming and for human conversation are compared in order to test Robin Dunbar’s hypothesis that human language is almost three times as efficient a bonding mechanism as primate grooming. Recalculation of the data provided by Dunbar et al. (1995) reveals that the average clique size for human conversation is 2.72 whereas that of chimpanzee grooming ...

the world of music. Musicians use inexpensive personal computers instead of expensive recording studios to record, mix, and engineer music. Musicians use the Internet to distribute their music for free instead of spending large amounts of money creating CDs, hiring trucks, and shipping them to hundreds of record stores. As the cost to create and distribute recorded music has dropped, the amount...

The sin θW result from NuTeV falls three standard deviations from the value determined by global electroweak fits. It has been suggested that one possible explanation for this result could be the oscillation of electron neutrinos in the NuTeV beam to sterile neutrinos. This article examines several cases of masses and mixings for 3+2 neutrino oscillation models which fit the current oscillation...

As a foundation for the definition of bidirectional protocol mappings between the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) and the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP), this document specifies the architectural assumptions underlying such mappings as well as the mapping of addresses and error conditions.