Endemic and emerging diseases are rarely uniform in their spatial distribution or prevalence among cohorts of wildlife. Spatial models that quantify risk-driven differences in resource selection and hunter mortality of animals at fine spatial scales can assist disease management by identifying high-risk areas and individuals. We used resource selection functions (RSFs) and selection ratios (SRs...

J ust after midnight on March 24, 1989, the giant oil tanker Exxon Valdez ran aground on Bligh Reef off the coast of Alaska, spilling almost 21 million gallons of crude oil into the sea. The disaster caused an oil slick that covered 3,000 square miles and contaminated 1,090 miles of coastline along the pristine Prince William Sound, killing thousands of marine creatures and costing Exxon $1.28 ...

A monoclonal antibody, FBT3, was raised against Tn positive erythrocytes and, using immuno-histochemistry, fresh and fixed tissues from patients with cancer were studied to detect any expression of a Tn-like epitope. Expression was found in neoplastic cells, usually both in cytoplasm and on cell membranes, from 104 of 147 cases of carcinoma and 1 of 13 cases of lymphoma, but rarely in adjacent,...

care, the panacea of the 1960s and '70s, have recently begun to attract scholarly attention. Levine documents many of the more egregious failures the revolving-door syndrome; the rise of a profit-making "trade in lunacy" centring around nursing homes, board and care facilities, and welfare hotels and analyses quite well the role of the state and federal bureaucracy in promoting and covering up ...

Background and Rationale Post-marital residence patterns refer to where a couple lives after marriage, such as near or with husband's kin (patrilocality) or wife's kin (matrilocality). These patterns influence other aspects of social organization and behavior, and potentially reveal key parts of human nature. Since the 1860s, anthropologists have sought to characterize prehistoric hunter-gather...

With the untimely passing of this still-young mathematician, the world has lost an “original”. Hunter Snevily came to the University of Illinois in the mid-1980s and became only my fifth Ph.D. student, completing his thesis in 1991. I was also young then and learned as much from him as he did from me. Hunter’s main work was in extremal set theory, where he made a significant contribution. As a ...

Mucopolysaccharidosis type II (Hunter syndrome) is an X-linked lysosomal storage disorder. A novel gross deletion in the iduronate-2-sulfatase (IDS) gene was found in a 6-year-old boy with Hunter syndrome. The phenotype of the patient was severe, including joint stiffness, kyphosis, hepatomegaly, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, moderate mental retardation, and bilateral hearing loss. The 38.8 kb g...

The OzFoodNet Working Group is (in alphabetical order): Rosie Ashbolt (Tas), Robert Bell (Qld), Barry Combs (SA), Scott Crerar (FSANZ), Craig Dalton (Hunter PHU), Karen Dempsey (NT), Joy Gregory (Vic), Gillian Hall (NCEPH), Brigid Hardy (AFFA), Geoff Hogg (MDU), Geetha Isaac-Toua (ACT), Martyn Kirk (FSANZ), Karin Lalor (Vic), Tony Merritt (Hunter PHU), Geoff Millard (ACT), Jennie Musto (NSW), L...