works relating to Public Health and Epidemiology; and, on the formation of the Epidemiological Society, he at once identified himself warmly with the work it had taken up. Having for many years given much attention to the subject of vaccination, he was appointed, together with Dr. Babington and others, as a member of the Small-pox and Vaccination Committee appointed by the Society, and it is we...

Leaf spot symptoms were frequently observed on yam plants grown in the Yeoju area in Korea during a disease survey in 2008. A total of five isolates of Pseudophloeosporella sp. were obtained from the infected leaves of yam plants. All of the isolates were identified as Pseudophloeosporella dioscoreae based on their morphological and cultural characteristics. A phylogenetic tree derived from the...

DENG-SHAN WANG1, YUSHAN XUE2, ZHIFEI ZHANG3 1School of Applied Science, Beijing Information Science and Technology University, Beijing 100192, China Corresponding author E-mail: [email protected] 2School of Statistics and Mathematics, Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing 100081, China 3Department of Mathematics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430074, Chi...

In the crystal structure of a semi-synthetic opioid drug buprenorphine, C29H41NO4 {systematic name: (2S)-2-[(5R,6R,7R,14S)-9α-cyclo-propyl-methyl-3-hy-droxy-6-meth-oxy-4,5-ep-oxy-6,14-ethano-morphinan-7-yl]-3,3-di-methyl-butan-2-ol}, the cyclo-propyl-methyl group is disordered over two sites with an occupancy factor of 0.611 (3) for the major component. One of the hy-droxy groups is involved in...