A glacial varve chronology from New England spanning the 4000-year period from 17,500 to 13,500 calendar years before the present was analyzed for evidence of climate variability during the late Pleistocene. The chronology shows a distinct interannual (3 to 5 years) band of enhanced variability suggestive of El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) teleconnections into North America during the late ...

Fresh material (aerial parts, leaves and stems) was collected when possible, collection data (place, date and collector) are outlined and an asterisk indicates a herbarium sample. Samples were identi"ed by M.El-Gibali, and voucher specimen are deposited at the Herbarium (CAIRC) of the National Research Center, or that of the Faculty of Science, Cairo University (CAI). P. atlantica Desf.: (1) No...

BEAM LINE 9 HYSICISTS FROM AROUND the world are engaged in a wide variety of experiments to determine whether neutrinos have mass. This possibility has intrigued physicists and cosmologists for two decades, ever since neutrinos emerged as a leading candidate for the dark matter thought to inhabit the Universe. A comprehensive new experiment is being built in Illinois and Minnesota to study neut...

The El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) phenomenon, originating in the Tropical Pacific, is the strongest natural interannual climate signal and has widespread effects on the global climate system and the ecology of the Tropical Pacific. Any strong change in ENSO statistics will therefore have serious climatic and ecological consequences. Most global climate models do simulate ENSO, although la...

A pilot project in rural El Salvador tested the integration of family planning into a water and sanitation program as a strategy for increasing male involvement in family planning decison making and use. The organizations involved posited that integrating family planning into a resource management and community development project would facilitate male involvement by diffusing information, by r...

Two years after the uprising that forced President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali into exile, Tunisians are slowly coming to grips with the reality of politics in a pluralist system where opposition is real and the outcome of political contestation is not predetermined. The process is slow and somewhat uncertain, and it would be premature to conclude that Tunisian politicians have fully embraced not o...

Despite extensive ongoing efforts on improving the long-term prediction of El Niño-Southern Oscillation, the predictability in state-of-the-art operational schemes remains limited by factors such as the spring barrier and the influence of atmospheric winds. Recent research suggests that the 2014/15 El Niño (EN) event was stalled as a result of an unusually strong basin-wide easterly wind burst ...

During the 1990s an international collaboration has been studying the possibility of constructing and operating a high-energy high-luminosity μ+μ− collider. Such a machine could be the approach of choice to extend our discovery reach beyond that of the LHC. More recently, a growing collaboration is exploring the potential of a stored-muon-beam “neutrino factory” to elucidate neutrino oscillatio...

A three-year investigation was made of the incidence patterns and characteristics of malaria in a small high-incidence coastal area of El Salvador with a resident population of about 6,000 persons and a migrant population of 3,000 to 4,000 others. It found a significant increase in the incidence of Plasmodium falciparum cases during the three-year period, combined with relative stability in the...

We study the motion of classical particles con ned in a two-dimensional "nuclear" billiard whose walls undergo periodic shape oscillations according to a xed multipolarity. The presence of a coupling term in the single particle Hamiltonian between the particle motion and the collective coordinate generates a fully selfconsistent dynamics. We consider in particular monopole oscillations and demo...