Background Decentralisation aims to bring services closer to the community and has been advocated in the health sector to improve quality, access and equity, and to empower local agencies, increase innovation and efficiency and bring healthcare and decision-making as close as possible to where people live and work. Fiji has attempted two approaches to decentralisation. The current approach refl...

In human (D. H. Baker, T. S. Meese, & R. J. Summers, 2007b) and in cat (B. Li, M. R. Peterson, J. K. Thompson, T. Duong, & R. D. Freeman, 2005; F. Sengpiel & V. Vorobyov, 2005) there are at least two routes to cross-orientation suppression (XOS): a broadband, non-adaptable, monocular (within-eye) pathway and a more narrowband, adaptable interocular (between the eyes) pathway. We further charact...

We describe the invariance requirements in order to represent 3D scenes in a manner which is largely unaffected by viewpoint and illumination conditions. We then survey a number of viewpoint invariant descriptors and illustrate how they are used within an image database retrieval system.

The initial rate of Cu2+ movement across the thylakoid membrane of pea (Pisum sativum) chloroplasts was directly measured by stopped-flow spectrofluorometry using membranes loaded with the Cu(2+)-sensitive fluorophore Phen Green SK. Cu2+ transport was rapid, reaching completion within 0.5 s. The initial rate of uptake was dependent upon Cu2+ concentration and saturated at about 0.6 microm total...

Abstract Fatty acids (FA) in lake zooplankton are largely provided by dietary FA and affected taxonomic composition of zooplankton, temperature, other environmental conditions. However, the extent to which retained and/or bioconverted remains unclear. In this study, we examined how (seston), temperature physico‐chemical variables (i.e., concentrations chlorophyll a , dissolved organic carbon, n...