The Second International Workshop on Data Management in the Cloud took place on April 8, 2013 in Brisbane, Australia, on the day before ICDE. The DMC workshop aims to bring researchers and practitioners in cloud computing and data management systems together to discuss the research issues at the intersection of these two areas, and also to draw more attention from the larger data management and...

Drosophila, Wnt, FGF, Jak/Stat, Rho, Rac, RhoGEF, Pebble, Naked Cuticle The site for the latest installment of the Fly Meeting (March 7–11) was downtown Philadelphia. The conference offered an illustration of all that is great about the Drosophila field bringing together evolutionary biologists, immunologists and everyone in between. Here I will provide a small sample of several advances from t...

We show that the oscillatory driving of crystal surfaces can induce pattern formation or smoothening. Depending on driving conditions, step bunching and meandering, mound formation, or surface smoothening may be seen in the presence of a kinetic asymmetry at the steps or kinks. We employ a step model to calculate the induced mass flux along misoriented surfaces, which accounts for surface dynam...

PROSTATECTOMY is an operation in which all surgeons, however skilled, sometimes have difficulty in controlling haemorrhage. As the operation is usually done in elderly men who cannot withstand severe haemorrhage, it is important to estimate the blood loss and to replace it; alternatively the anaesthetist can take steps to diminish the bleeding by lowering the blood pressure. Figures for the mea...

Background: The socio-economical and geographical conditions of Iran cause most of the people consume dairy products or are in close contact with livestock, that these expose many individuals to Brucella spp. Since Qazvin province is considered as a moderate burden of brucellosis, the need for a comprehensive epidemiological study of the disease in this province is quite essential. Methods: Th...

Mu particles are endosymbionts found in the cytoplasm of Paratnecium aurelia (Sonneborn, 1959; Preer, 1967; Beale, Jurand & Preer, 1969; Jurand & Selman, 1969). They are responsible for the phenomenon of mate-killing (Siegel, 1954; Beale, 1957) but can be removed from stock 540 paramecia by a variety of methods (Beale, 1957; Gibson & Beale, 1962; Franklin, 1973). The technique used by Beale (19...

We study the control of modulational instability and pattern formation in a nonlinear dissipative feedback system with a periodic modulation of the material refractive index. We use a one-dimensional photonic lattice in a single-mirror feedback configuration and identify three mechanisms for pattern control: bandgap suppression of instability modes, periodicity induced pattern modes, and orient...

We present some numerical results obtained from a simple individual-based model that describes clustering of organisms caused by competition. Our aim is to show that, even when a deterministic description developed for continuum models predicts no pattern formation, an individual-based model displays well-defined patterns, as a consequence of fluctuation effects caused by the discrete nature of...