The toxic element arsenic is widespread in New Zealand’s aquatic and terrestrial environments. Arsenic is ubiquitous in all of the geothermal areas and waterways that fall within or pass-through the Taupo Volcanic Zone, an area in the central North Island that stretches from Mt Ruapehu to White Island (Figure 1). On its way to the surface, super-heated geothermal water dissolves appreciable amo...

Between 1988 and 2003, Naegleria fowleri was studied extensively in Thailand. The distribution of N. fowleri has been studied in many provinces since 1988. During 2001-2003, we received financial support from Mahidol University to study the distribution of pathogenic Naegleria spp in water reservoirs in central, northern, and western parts of Thailand. With these funds, research was conducted i...

The RECODE database is a compilation of translational recoding events (programmed ribosomal frameshifting, codon redefinition and translational bypass). The database provides information about the genes utilizing these events for their expression, recoding sites, stimulatory sequences and other relevant information. The Database is freely available at http://recode.genetics.utah.edu/.

The foundation of treatment for patients with hypertension is ongoing use of lifestyle measures such as physical exercise, weight reduction, and salt restriction. There should be emphasis on reduction of total cardiovascular risk, including smoking cessation and achievement of goal blood pressures. There are now five classes of first-line blood-pressure-lowering drugs - diuretics, beta-blockers...

INTRODUCTION Tularemia is an uncommon but potentially fatal zoonosis. А second outbreak of tularemia in Bulgaria, about 40 years after the first, occurred in 1997 in two western regions, near the Serbian border. In 2003 tularemia reemerged in the same foci. This retrospective study aimed to evaluate the clinical characteristics and the efficacy of antibiotic therapy in a tularemia resurgence in...

This paper reports on the fourth version of the Mixed Integer Programming Library. Since MIPLIB is to provide a concise set of challenging problems, it became necessary to purge instances that became too easy. We present an overview of the 27 new problems and statistical data for all 60 instances.

1 Lehrstuhl für Datenverarbeitungssysteme, FB Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik, University of Dortmund, Otto-Hahn-Strasse 4, 44221 Dortmund, Germany 2 Institut für Informatik, LFG Künstliche Intelligenz, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Rudower Chaussee 25, 12489 Berlin, Germany 3 Fachgebiet Simulation und Systemoptimierung, FB 20 Informatik, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Alexanderstra...

We present a self-valuing learning technique which is ca-pable of learning how to grasp unfamiliar objects andgeneralize the learned abilities. The learning system con-sists of two components which distinguish between localand global quality criteria for grasp points. The localcriteria are not object-specific while the global criteriacover physical properties of each obj...