The anticancer ruthenium complex trans-[tetrachlorobis(1Hindazole)ruthenate(III)], otherwise known as KP1019, has previously been shown to inhibit proliferation of ovarian tumor cells, induce DNA damage and apoptosis in colon carcinoma cells, and reduce tumor size in animal models. Notably, no doselimiting toxicity was observed in a Phase I clinical trial. Despite these successes, KP1019’s prec...

A Markov decision process model is developed to investigate the optimal scheduling of haul setting and retrievals on a factory trawler in the Pacific hake (Merluccius productus) fishery. The model was used to investigate changes in fishing behavior during a temporary ban on night fishing in 1992. The cycle of setting the net, fishing, and retrieving the net is modeled with different costs for e...

This essay attempts a renewed, critical exposition of Husserl’s theory of the phenomenological reduction, incorporating manuscript material that has been published since the defining essays of the first generation of Husserl research. The discussion focuses on points that remain especially crucial, i.e., the concept of the natural attitude, the ways into the reduction (and their systematics), a...

Pennsylvania generates over 50,000 m of spent mushroom substrate (SMS) annually due to production of the white button mushroom Agaricus bisporus (Chong and Hamersma 1997). Improper disposal of this volume of organic waste may cause environmental problems such as air, water and soil pollution. Considering that its major ingredients include incompletely composted straw, hay, manure, gypsum and po...

The rate of ejection of alpha-recoil thorium-234 into solution from the surface of zircon sand gives an alpha-recoil range of 550 angstroms. The alpha-recoil thorium-234 atoms ejected into the groundwater may supply excess uranium-234. In pelagic sediments, ejected alpha-recoil thorium-234 may contribute to the supply of mobile uranium-234 in the sedimentary column.