Thomas Keneally has long been a writer who gives expression to nationalist sentiment. In 1978 J.J. Healy commented that writers such as Keneally represented ‘a collective, many-motived consciousness’ whose impulse was ‘political, public’. Indeed, many of Keneally’s earlier novels illustrate what we might call ‘national progenitors’. In From The Ruins of Colonialism Chris Healy describes a uniqu...

This paper gives a CREW PRAM algorithm for the problem of finding lowest common ancestors in a forest under the insertion of leaves and roots and the deletion of leaves. For a forest with a maximum of n vertices, the algorithm takes O(m/p + r log p + min(m, r log n)) time and O(n) space using p processors to process a sequence of m operations that are presented over r rounds. Furthermore, lowes...

related homeobox 1 gene, Prrx1, are up-regulated in the autopods of the bat wing compared to the bat hindlimb and mouse forelimb. Changes in the mRNA transcript abundance of several genes involved in retinoic acid (RA) synthesis, degradation and signaling were consistent with the down-regulation of the RA signaling pathway in the developing bat wing autopod. Signal from a microarray probe targe...

The level-ancestor problem is considered. Suppose a rooted tree T is given for preprocessing. Answer quickly queries of the following form. Given a vertex v and an integer i > 0, find the ith vertex on the path from v to the root. Given any m, 1 ~<m~<log* n, we achieve the following results: (1) O(log (m) n) a time using an optimal number of processors for preprocessing and constant time using ...

The relationship between the Tibetan prelate Tāranātha (1575-1634) and his major patrons, the various sDe pa of gTsang is a most complex one. In studying it I am increasingly aware that the wealth of detail to be gleaned from the various relevant texts is not just limited to the narrow study of the lives of just a few people, in this case those of Tāranātha and the various rulers of gTsang. Ind...

O-antigen-deficient derivatives of two mouse-virulent strains of Salmonella choleraesuis (serogroup C1; O-6,7) were constructed by transduction of a long deletion of the rfb operon. Strains SN36 and SN57 were derived from the smooth ancestor SL2824, while SN37 was derived from the smooth ancestor SL2840. These rfb deletion derivatives (rfb strains) had typical bacteriophage sensitivity patterns...