when thinking about traditional iranian architecture, one imagines extensive ornamental patterns that adorn almost every surface of mosques and other prominent buildings. yet, many theories of architecture since the beginning of twentieth century have considered ornamentation a superficial and superfluous layer. but, are these ornamental surfaces superficial and can they be removed so easily? t...

(1) University Paris-Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, EA 7334 REMES, Patient-Centered Outcomes Research, Paris, France; (2) Australian Institute of Family Studies, Melbourne, Australia; (3) Murdoch University, Institute for Immunology & Infectious Diseases, Murdoch, Australia; (4) Centro de Referência e Treinamento DST/AIDS, Sao Paulo, Brazil; (5) INSERM U912 (SE4S), Marseille, France. * Correspon...

From the Military & Emergency Medicine Department, F. Edward Hébert School of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD (Dr Bennett); Oakland University, Rochester, MI (Dr Hew-Butler); the Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Department of Veterans Affairs, Northern California Health Care System, and University of California Davis Medical Center, ...

Philip L. Bartlett,* Andris T. Stelbovics, T. N. Rescigno, and C. W. McCurdy Centre for Antimatter-Matter studies, Murdoch University, Murdoch 6150, Western Australia, Australia Centre for Antimatter-Matter studies, Curtin University, Bentley 6102, Western Australia, Australia Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Chemical Sciences, Berkeley, California 94720, USA Department of Applied Science...

A generalization of the Gurtin{MacCamy model for an S{I{R epidemic is described. The new model, which includes di usion away from overcrowded regions, retains many of the interesting qualitative features of previous models. In addition, the global{in{time existence of solutions is proved for a special case. Qualitative properties of the solution are discussed and illustrated with a numerical ex...

This paper is concerned with the integrodifferential equation