PURPOSE To evaluate the dosimetric impact of lung tissue in Ir-192 APBI. MATERIAL AND METHODS In a 40 × 40 × 40 cm(3) water tank, an Accelerated Partial Breast Irradiation (APBI) brachytherapy balloon inflated to 4 cm diameter was situated directly below the center of a 30 × 30 × 1 cm(3) solid water slab. Nine cm of solid water was stacked above the 1 cm base. A parallel plate ion chamber was...

Cork oak trees and woodlands have been managed and cherished by generations of people of many different Mediterranean cultures and in many different ways. Their resilience in a sometimes hostile environment, their economic importance, and their nonmonetary, or nonmarket, aesthetic and cultural values make these cultural woodland systems an outstanding example of the kind of mutually beneficial ...

Laura H. Jacobson,1 Peter H. Kelly,1 Bernhard Bettler,2 Klemens Kaupmann,1 and John F. Cryan1,3 1Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Novartis Pharma, CH-4002 Basel, Switzerland, 2Institute of Physiology, Department of Clinical-Biological Sciences, Pharmazentrum, University of Basel, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland, and 3Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, School of Pharmacy, Univer...

Conference (FLAIRS-19) was held 11–13 May 2006 at the Crowne Plaza Melbourne Oceanfront Hotel in Melbourne Beach, FL. The general cochairs were Philip Chan and Debasis Mitra, from the Florida Institute of Technology. The program cochairs were Geoff Sutcliffe, from the University of Miami, and Randy Goebel, from the University of Alberta. The special tracks chair was Barry O’Sullivan, from Unive...

A short survey of exotic smooth structutes on 4-manifolds is given with a special emphasis on the corresponding cork structures. Along the way we discuss some of the more recent results in this direction, obtained jointly with R. Matveyev, B.Ozbagci, C.Karakurt and K.Yasui.

Paul C. Engel, Francesca Paradisi, Eamonn Moynihan and Anita R. Maguire, (1)Department of Biochemistry, University College Dublin, Conway Institute of Biomolecular and Biomedical Research, Belfield Campus, Dublin, 4, Ireland, (2)Department of Biochemistry, University College Dublin, Conway Institute, Belfield Campus, Dublin, 4, Ireland, (3)Department of Chemistry, University College Cork, Cork,...

Evgeny A. Viktorov, Thomas Erneux, Paul Mandel, Tomasz Piwonski, Gillian Madden, Jaroslaw Pulka, Guillaume Huyet, and John Houlihan Optique Nonlinéaire Théorique, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Campus Plaine, Code Postal 231, 1050 Bruxelles, Belgium Tyndall National Institute, Cork, Ireland and Department of Applied Physics, Cork Institute of Technology, Ireland Department of Computing, Maths a...

Review of Women in the Irish Film Industry, by Susan Liddy (ed.) (Cork: Cork University Press, 2020), 258 pp., ISBN: 9781782053736, $39 (Hardback)

Review of Irish Women Poets Rediscovered, by Maria Johnston and Conor Linnie (eds.) (Cork: Cork University Press, 2021), 192 pp., ISBN: 978-1-78205-479-5, €39 (hardback)

In May, 1939, a report on the financial results secured on 98 " mixed " dairy farms on the North Cork-Limerick border, m the accounting year ended 30th April, 1938, was presented to the Society. (Journal S S I 1938-39) For 93 of these farms, comparable data were again collected m 1939, covering the accounting-year ended 30th April, 1939, and portion of these data appeared m the Society's Journa...