The International Cotton Genome Initiative (ICGI) Workshop I was held at Plant and Animal Genomes (PAG) XIII on Sunday 16 January 2005. ICGI has held two biennial meetings at which the membership has had the opportunity for scientific exchange, the first at Nanjing, China, in 2002, the second at Hyderabad, India, in 2004, and the next will be held in 2006 (host country to be selected). The ICGI...

At SHIPTRAP, exotic nuclei produced in fusion reactions and separated from the primary beam in the velocity filter SHIP are stopped in a gas-filled stopping cell. The ions are extracted, bunched and transferred to a double Penning trap system, where their masses can be measured. Contaminant ions created in the gas-filled stopping cell and abundantly produced reaction products different from the...

Question: Does a physiotherapy-assisted individually tailored pelvic floor exercise program promote urinary continence in women who have undergone stressful deliveries? Design: Randomised controlled trial. Setting: Australian tertiary teaching hospitals. Patients: Six hundred and seventy-six women who had a forceps or ventouse delivery, or a high birth weight baby (> 4000g) (consent rate 78.9%)...

Genetic variation available for the improvement of fiber properties is restricted in commercial upland cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.). Resources for fiber improvement exist in G. barbadense L., but introgression of traits has been a limited success. The objectives of this study were to investigate the genetic variation and heritability of agronomic and fiber traits within a diverse recombinant ...

Рассматривается значимость отдельных факторов самосознания (язык, религия, культура, историческая память) в поддержании польской этнической идентичности членов общественной организации «Дом Польский» Томске конце 2010-х гг. Основными теоретическими рамками работы выступают конструктивистский подход к теории этноса (Р. Брубейкер, В. А. Тишков) и теория исторической памяти (М. Хальбвакс). Исследу...

TOPIC: Critical Care TYPE: Medical Student/Resident Case Reports INTRODUCTION: Adie's Pupil: Mydriatic iridoplegia is a benign disorder with prevalence of 2/1000, twice as common in women. It commonly seen ambulatory setting, however; unmasking it patients critical care settings can be an ominous finding; presenting diagnostic challenge. has slipped through time resurfacing often great masquera...

The practice of enfranchising resident aliens lies at the heart of a theoretical debate among political scientists who study the institutions of sovereignty and citizenship. A number of such scholars cite this practice as evidence of the erosion both of the historical link between the nation and the state, and of the state's sovereign authority to define its political community. By contrast, ot...

Although this metaphor has been used (and sometimes abused) over the years, it certainly seems entirely appropriate at this particular time and place as I take over the role of Editor-in-Chief (EIC) from Amira Klip, PhD, who for the past three years has provided outstanding editorial guidance to the American Journal of Physiology Endocrinology and Metabolism (AJPEndo). This issue marks the offi...

One-hundred-and-one Australian university students aged 18-25 years, with a mean age of 22. 9 years (SD = 1.62) completed a survey assessing testicular self-examination, and knowledge of testicular cancer, d statistically significant difference was found in knowledge scores between performers and non-performers. The factors influencing performance of testicular self-examination were examined us...

tem processes, and topography in determining vegetation Analyses of pollen, plant macrofossils, macroscopic charcoal, composition, landscape patterns, and ecosystem function mollusks, magnetic susceptibility, and geochemical content of a (Van Cleve et al., 1983, 1986, 1991; Wien and MacLean, sediment core from Farewell Lake yield a 11,000-yr record of 1983; Bonan and Shugart, 1989; Shugart et a...