The first HotNets workshop was held on October 28 and 29, 2002 at Princeton University. Twenty-five papers were presented over a day and a half in a single-track, discussionoriented format. Attendance was kept to 65 people to encourage interaction among the participants. The participants were drawn mostly from presenters and authors, plus the organizing committee and 10 students generously supp...

Introduction: The Mitochondrion and Its Genome ............................................................ 1 The Human Mitochondrial Genome ................................................................................... 3 The D-loop and Human Population Genetics ..................................................................... 4 Mitochondrial DNA and Recent Human History .................

Many governments are adopting policies to devolve responsibility for natural resource management to local bodies. Devolution is fuelled by privatization trends, growing fiscal constraints at the state level, and a search for more sustainable resource management. Programs such as Joint Forest Management, Irrigation Management Transfer, or Fisheries Co-Management are all examples of this trend. S...

Amendments of 1983, it mandated a study of the implications for workers in physically demanding jobs and/or ill health of the increase in the age at which full social .security benefits are payable. The report to Congress is reprinted here verbatim. The analysis shows that fewer older workers than today-7-9 percent by 2020, compared with 11.4 percent in 1982-are expected to be in jobs with .,.....

Jianjun Xie, Stefano de Gironcoli, Stefano Baroni, and Matthias Scheffler 1 Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Faradayweg 4-6, D-14195 Berlin-Dahlem, Germany SISSA – Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati and INFM – Istituto Nazionale per la Fisica della Materia, via Beirut 2–4, I-34014 Trieste, Italy CECAM – Centre Européen de Calcul Atomique et Moléculaire ENS, Aile ...

Background: Although several studies have been done on quality of life of patients with Sickle Cell Disease (SCD), there is little research on the correlation of health-related quality of life (HRQoL) with self-efficacy in these patients. We aimed to determine the association between HRQoL and self-efficacy in patients with SCD and to explore the role of self-efficacy and demographic-clinical v...

Division of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon, Department of Plastic Surgery and Burns, General State Hospital of Athens, Athens, Greece, Department of Plastic Surgery and Burn Center Region Piemonte, Torino, Italy, Department of Plastic Surgery and Burn Center, Palermo, Italy, Department of Plastic Surgery, University of Toulouse, T...