During the development of multicellular organisms, various types of directed cell migration occur that contribute to the development of different tissues. These include the migration of neural crest cells, hematopoietic stem cells and germ cells. Gaining a better understanding of the mechanisms that govern normal cell motility and invasion is crucial for understanding development but may also c...

Homicide-suicides (HS) are relatively infrequent events. Yet, they are of great concern because they often result in the death of family members, young children, and cause additional morbidity, family disruption and childhood psychological trauma. The aims of our study were (a) to examine the sociodemographic, clinical, and autopsy characteristics of HS in Paris and its suburbs from 1991 throug...

We surveyed 29 wild rice growers, representing 96% of the California acreage grown in 1993, to determine current practices for blackbird damage control. Twenty-seven growers (93%) had blackbird damage. The period of greatest damage and most intensive control was July through September. Red-winged blackbirds (Agelaius phoeniceus) most frequently caused damage, but three other species of blackbir...

Now that the Australian government’s plain tobacco packaging legislation has passed into law, the three tobacco transnationals which sell cigarettes in Australia are jostling to show who has the hairiest legal chest. 3 British American Tobacco, Philip Morris, Imperial and Japan Tobacco International have commenced court action. Philip Morris has also elected to test a bilateral investment treat...

In February 2008, a private physician in North Dakota radiographed hunterharvested venison and found that 60 of 100 packages contained metal fragments. This discovery had implications for public-funded venison donation programs, and it prompted several Midwest states to examine their programs. Approximately 500,000 deer hunters harvest >200,000 deer annually in Minnesota, and the state has a do...

We assessed numbers and biomass of species hunted sold for wild meat in 12 park-adjacent settlements the Fazao Malfakassa National Park (FMNP), Togo. From hunter interviews market carcass counts, 33 species, 28 from 26 surveys were taken, respectively. A total 2605 animals recorded study, 18 during wet season (740 animals) dry (1865 animals). In markets, 754 carcasses 19 traded season, 1896 24 ...

We use a recently developed computerized modeling technique to explore the long-term impacts of indigenous Amazonian hunting in the past, present, and future. The model redefines sustainability in spatial and temporal terms, a major advance over the static “sustainability indices” currently used to study hunting in tropical forests. We validate the model’s projections against actual field data ...

The concept of appropriation of turning property into ones own (or "pwning it" [1]) is common to art at least since the 1970s. Back then, Appropriation Art sought the de-contextualisation of consumerism's symbols: brands, advertisements and logos. Today, it is paralleled by the digital hijacking of mass-produced (cultural) products and the succeeding abduction of digital content. A number of pi...

Communication and information technologies are adding new capabilities for rapid and inexpens ive customer input to all stages of the product development (PD) process. In this article we review six web-based methods of customer input as examples of the improved Internet capabilities of communication, conceptualization, and computation. For each method we give examples of userinterfaces, initial...