Since the acceptance of Wegener's theory of plate tectonics in the 1960s, continental drift vicariance has been proposed as an explanation for pan-Gondwanan faunal distributions. Given the recognition of historical connections among continents, it no longer was necessary to invoke hypotheses of dispersal across nearly insurmountable barriers. The application of continental drift vicariance theo...

Daniel Amyot, University of Ottawa, Canada, [email protected] 1 Robin Barker, NPL, United Kingdom, [email protected] Hubert Garavel, INRIA, France, [email protected] 2 Alan Jeffrey, University of Sussex, United Kingdom, [email protected] 3 Sungwon Kang, Korea Telecom, Korea, [email protected] Guy Leduc, University of Liège, Belgium, [email protected] 2 Luc Léonard,...

The anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA) associated vasculitides are a group of uncommon diseases characterised by inflammatory cell infiltration and necrosis of blood vessel walls. ANCA there has been considerable progress towards understanding their pathogenesis. This results in endothelial activation with increased transmigration and adherence of neutrophils to vessel walls. Specific ...

Granulomatosis with polyangiitis (Wegener's granulomatosis) is one of the anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic anti-body-associated small vessel vasculitides. Upper and lower respiratory system and kidneys are most commonly affected. The disease is characterized by granulomatous inflammation of the respiratory tract and necrotizing vasculitis of small to medium-sized blood vessels. Most patients show in...

The assumption in documents N3095 and N3113 seems to be that a proposed alignment of the text in clause 26.1 of 10646 with Unicode would be the reflection of a new misunderstanding. However, the Unicode specification, including the canonical decomposition of Hangul precomposed syllable characters have been fixed for many years now. Indeed, the decompositions and equivalences are now stabilised ...

Prior research has shown that stereotypes regarding women's hair color have very real effects. The purpose of the present research was to examine the pervasiveness of stereotypes regarding women's competence and attractiveness in relation to hair color and GPA. Hair color, blond or brunette, and grade point average, high or low, was manipulated. Participants were asked to rate a female graduate...

The antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA) associated vasculitides (AAV) are a group of primary vasculitides that affect predominantly small- to medium-sized blood vessels. AAV include granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA), microscopic polyangiitis (MPA) and eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis (EGPA). Disease severity is dictated by the location and extent of the blood vessels af...

BACKGROUND currently road accidents are mostly monitored through mortality and injury rates. This paper reports the methodology and the results of a project set forth by the European Union (EU) and coordinated by the WHO aimed at identifying and evaluating a core set of indicators to monitor the causal chain of road accident health effects. The project is part of the ECOEHIS (Development of Env...

The objective of the present work was to develop a quantitative risk assessment model in which the exposure and risk of acquiring listeriosis from consumption of packaged smoked or gravad salmon and rainbow trout were estimated. An Excel spreadsheet model was constructed in which variables were represented by distributions based on surveys of L. monocytogenes in these food products, and on demo...

We propose a point-shifted nanocavity based on square lattice photonic crystal, which sustains a lowest-order whispering-gallery (WG) mode. In simulation, the optimized WG mode (quality (Q) factor approximately 14,000) in point-shifted nanocavity can be with smaller mode volume (approximately 5.5(lambda/2n)(3)) but larger nano-post tolerance than those in single-defect cavity design. From well-...