Efforts to euthanise stranded cetaceans remain highly variable in their outcomes, with few field tested operational procedures available. This study sought validate the efficacy of using modern firearms technology small (<6m length) cetaceans. Post-mortem evidence was gathered from standardised shooting cetacean cadavers (n = 10), representing six species, .30 caliber (7.62mm) and blunt soli...

Our40-year research partnership began on a sunny June day in 1966 at theMassachusetts General Hospital, where we met with twelve other nervous neophytes to begin our internships in internal medicine.Within a few days, we developed the friendship and mutual respect that were to sustain our collaborative effort over four decades. Our backgrounds were quite different. Joe grew up in small-town Sou...

Skin carcinoma, particularly basal cell carcinoma, and its treatment can result in large defects of the hairy skull. A 53-year-old man is described who was surgically treated for a large basal cell carcinoma invading the skin and underlying tissue at the top of the hairy skull. Treatment consisted of resecting the tumor and external part of the skull bone. To protect the brain and to cover the ...

An overview will be given of some nonlinear parabolic-like evolution problems which are oo the classical beaten track, but have increased in importance during the past decade. The emphasis is on problems which are nonlocal, pattern-forming (including exhibiting propagative phenomena), and/or lead in some singular limit to free boundary problems. In all cases they have been proposed as models fo...

In this issue of Genes & Development, Siebert and colleagues (pp. 1052-1062) define a ligand-receptor system that controls motor axon guidance and target recognition in the Drosophila embryo. The beaten path (beat) and sidestep (side) genes were known to be important regulators of motor axon guidance. Siebert and colleagues now show that Beat and Side are cell surface proteins that physically i...

Soda pulping was performed using kenaf stalk, core, and bast as raw materials. It was observed that all these components could yield good paper characteristics when the resulting pulps were beaten to a freeness of 200 to 300 mL. Soda pulp made from the stalk was comparable to the frond from oil palm in sheet properties, but the latter would require higher beating energy to reach similar freenes...