This is a short report of a 'safari' held in conjunction with the International Congress of Nutrition in September 2005, in Futululu, St. Lucia, South Africa. Participants were several members of the International Union of Nutritional Sciences Task Force on Indigenous Peoples' Food Systems and Nutrition, other interested scientists and members of the Kwa Zulu indigenous community. The paper des...

Sector-specific government support for the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) industry has spread around the World. South Korea, Taiwan and Singapore all enacted national policies to attract the IT industry as early as the 1980s, with support for training, R&D, technology transfer, promotion, tax breaks and IT parks, for example. Malaysia launched perhaps the most ambitious plan wi...

The identity of Celastrina species in eastern Canada is reviewed based on larval host plants, phenology, adult phenotypes, mtDNA barcodes and re-assessment of published data. The status of the Cherry Gall Azure (Celastrina serotina Pavulaan & Wright) as a distinct species in Canada is not supported by any dataset, and is removed from the Canadian fauna. Previous records of this taxon are re-ide...

Lucia Terrenghi LMU University of Munich,

of GaAs on Si H. Y. Xu, Y. N. Guo, Y. Wang, J. Zou, J. H. Kang, Q. Gao, H. H. Tan, and C. Jagadish Materials Engineering, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland 4072, Australia Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland 4072, Australia Department of Electronic Materials Engineering, Research School of Physics and Engineering, The Aust...

In the last 10 years, implementation research has come to play a critical role in improving the implementation of already-proven health interventions by promoting the systematic uptake of research findings and other evidence-based strategies into routine practice. The Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research and the Pan American Health Organization implemented a program of embedded imple...

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 EARLY INFORMATION PROCESSING CONTRIBUTIONS TO OBJECT INDIVIDUATION 17 REVEALED BY PERCEPTION OF ILLUSORY FIGURES 18 19 Claire K. Naughtin, Jason B. Mattingley 2 & Paul E. Dux 20 21 School of Psychology, The University of Queensland, Australia 4072 22 Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, Australia 4072 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 3...

Major W. M. Hoddicu, of the Royal Engineers, has published a very interesting little pamphlet* on the work done by drainage and other works in St. Lucia in the West Indies in the years 1902-03. St. Lucia, like all other islands and ports in the West Indies, is gravely threatened by yellow fever, and as we have on another occasion noticed that the fear of this deadly fever has made anti-mosquito...

Integrating research using animal-borne telemetry with the needs of conservation management Jennifer McGowan*, Maria Beger, Rebecca L. Lewison, Rob Harcourt, Hamish Campbell, Mark Priest, Ross G. Dwyer, Hsien-Yung Lin, Pia Lentini, Christine Dudgeon, Clive McMahon, Matt Watts and Hugh P. Possingham Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Science, School of Biological Sciences, The University o...