Author Contribution: Ran Klein – Study design, methods implementation, data analysis, primary author Jennifer M. Renaud – Major contributions to methodology and secondary author Maria C. Ziadi – Operator 2 Stephanie L. Thorn – Operator 1 Andy Adler – Co-supervisor for Ran Klein, revising of manuscript Robert S. Beanlands – Head of Cardiac PET Centre producing data and patient recruitment, final...

Although computer fraud continues to be a thorn in the side of many organizations, fresh perspectives to addressing this type of crime are rare. This paper advances a preventive approach which reduces those criminal opportunities that permit computer fraud to take place. The construction of crime specific opportunity structures, which enable the relevant parties to conceptualize the fraud envir...

The terminal Wiener index TW = TW (G) of a graph G is equal to the sum of distances between all pairs of pendent vertices of G . This distance–based molecular structure descriptor was put forward quite recently [I. Gutman, B. Furtula, M. Petrović, J. Math. Chem. 46 (2009) 522–531]. In this paper we report results on TW of thorn graphs. Also a method for calculation of TW of dendrimers is descri...

A ternary relation |̂ between subsets of the big model of a complete first-order theory T is called an independence relation if it satisfies a certain set of axioms. The primary example is forking in a simple theory, but o-minimal theories are also known to have an interesting independence relation. Our approach in this paper is to treat independence relations as mathematical objects worth study...

Artabotrys R. Br. is one of the larger genera Annonaceae with over 100 species distributed throughout palaeotropics plus northern Australia. Although genus morphologically very well circumscribed, delimitation quite problematic owing to overlapping morphological characteristics. In Thailand, 20 have been reported, including A. multiflorus C. E. Fisch. Detailed comparisons type specimen from Mya...

A new species of Akanthepsilonema and the first-stage juvenile of Glochinema trispinatum are described. Furthermore, additional morphological information is provided for Triepsilonema tripapillata. Animals originate from a cold-water coral degradation zone in the Porcupine Seabight area (North-East Atlantic Ocean). Akanthepsilonema sinecornibus sp. n. differs from A. heUeouetae in number of bod...

An increased interest in the study of the adrenal cortex, together with the ready availability of corticotrophin (A.C.T.H.), have, in recent years, led to the development of improved methods for the assessment of adrenal cortical function. The first of such methods was devised by Thorn, Forsham, Prunty, and Hills (1948) and depended upon the fall in blood eosinop'lils after injection of a singl...

Let X(t) be the symmetric α-stable process in Rd, α ∈ (0, 2), d ≥ 2. For f : (0, 1) → (0,∞) let D(f) be the thorn {x ∈ Rd : x1 ∈ (0, 1), |(x2, . . . , xd)| < f(x1)}. We give an integral criterion in terms of f for the existence of a random time s such that X(t) remains in X(s) +D(f) for all t ∈ [s, s+ 1).