In a 4-(12, 6, 4) design a block is either disjoint from one other block or it has five points in common with one other block. For a 4-(12, 6, 4) design with a pair of blocks of the second type it is shown that· another thirty blocks of the design can be completed in a unique way and these thirty blocks contain a copy of a 3-(10, 4, 1) design.

A 4-(12, 6, 4) design that is not also a 5-(12, 6, 1) design must have at least one pair of blocks with five points in common. It is shown that there are just nine non-isomorphic such designs; so, including the 5-(12, 6, 1) design, there are ten 4-(12, 6, 4) designs. These designs are characterised by the orders of their automorphism groups and they all contain a 4-(11, 5, 1) design.

Martin J. Sharry and Anne Penfold Street, Centre for Combinatorics, Department of Mathematics, The University of Queensland, Brisbane 4072, Australia. As a first step towards finding all 4-(12, 6, 4) designs which are not 5-(12, 6, 1) designs, it is shown that if such a design has a pair of blocks with five points in common, then there is a unique way of assigning the replicas of the seven poin...

abdominal mass is one of the commonest clinical findings in children. the purpose of this study was to evaluate abdominal masses in different age groups in a referral children surgical center. we retrospectively reviewed records of 325 patients (57% boys, mean age 37.7 months) admitted to amir kabir hospital in period of 12 years for abdominal mass surgery. the 4 most common abdominal masses wa...

Germination and early growth of maize Sweet Maize (Zea mays L.), var. (SEL. CONETA) under irrigation with saline water were investigated in a pot experiment with different soil types. Seven salinity levels of irrigation water up to 12 dS/m were used on a Clay soil (C) and a Sandy-Loam (SL). Emergence of maize was delayed under irrigation with saline water, and the final percentage of germinatio...

We propose to perform a coincidence γn → πp differential cross section measurements at the quasi-free kinematics from deuterium and He in order to extract nuclear transparency over a momentum transferred square (|t|) range of 3.0 9.0 GeV. A rise in the nuclear transparency as a function of |t| is predicted to be a signature of the onset of Color Transparency. Recent experiments have reported hi...

Unilateral otosclerosis combined with avascular necrosis of stapes crura is a rare entity. it should be considered in a case of high grade otosclerosis. Symptoms are the same as in patients who suffer from common otosclerosis. Patients complain on progressive hearing loss and tinnitus. The diagnosis is made clinically by conventional audiologic evaluation and radiologically by x-ray mastoid Sch...

We report the detection of the 3 P1→ 3 P0 fine-structure line of neutral carbon in the z = 4.12 quasar PSS 2322+1944, obtained at the IRAM Plateau de Bure interferometer. The [Ci] 3 P1 − 3 P0 line is detected with a signal-to-noise ratio of ∼ 6 with a peak intensity of ≈ 2.5 mJy and a velocity-integrated line flux of 0.81 ± 0.12 Jy km s −1. Assuming an excitation temperature of 43 K (equal to t...