Prepared by: Timothy O. Williams, Marloes Mul & Olufunke Cofie, (IWMI) James Kinyangi (ILRI), Robert Zougmore (ICRISAT), George Wamukoya (COMESA), Mary Nyasimi (ILRI), Paul Mapfumo (University of Zimbabwe), Chinwe Ifejika Speranza (University of Bonn), Dorothy Amwata (ILRI), Snorre Frid-Nielsen (University of Copenhagen), Samuel Partey (ICRISAT), Evan Girvetz (CIAT), Todd Rosenstock (ICRAF) and...

Victoria Cowling received her BA from the University of Cambridge. She completed her PhD with Julian Downward and Gerard Evan at Cancer Research UK in London, and then moved to the US for a postdoctoral position at Princeton University and Dartmouth College with Michael Cole. Since 2008, she has been running a lab at Dundee University. She is an MRC Senior Research Fellow, a Lister Institute Re...

We present a numerical method for computing the pure-point spectrum associated with the linear stability of coherent structures. Our method is based on the Evans function shooting and matching approach. The Grassmann representatives for the stable and unstable manifolds of the spectral problem suffice to construct the Evans function. Our idea is to fix a coordinate patch for the Grassmann repre...

This paper presents a method of numerically computing zeros of an analytic function for the specific application of computing eigenvalues of the Sturm-Liouville problem. The Sturm-Liouville problem is an infinite dimensional eigenvalue problem that often arises in solving partial differential equations, including the heat and wave equations. To compute eigenvalues of the Sturm-Liouville problem...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to evaluate the permeability of the blood-brain barrier after sonication by pulsed high-intensity focused ultrasound and to determine if such an approach increases the tumor:ipsilateral brain permeability ratio. MATERIALS AND METHODS F98 glioma-bearing Fischer 344 rats were injected intravenously with Evans blue with or without blood-tumor barrier disrupt...

The volume of red blood cells (V(RBC)) is used routinely in the diagnostic workup of polycythemia, in assessing the efficacy of erythropoietin administration, and to study factors affecting oxygen transport. However, errors of various methods of measurement of V(RBC) and related parameters are not well characterized. We meta-analyzed 346 estimates of error of measurement of V(RBC) for technique...

An immunofluorescent slide method incorporating 0.1% (wt/vol) Evans blue as a counterstain was developed and compared with a recently described tube method. Seventy-one urine specimens were tested concurrently by both methods. Results of the two methods agreed in 70 specimens and disagreed in only 1. We found the slide method to be less costly and time consuming than the tube method.

As part of the Frank Pantridge Legacy symposium at Queens University, the latter part of Thursday 11 th June was devoted to Frank Pantridge's memory. A reception in the Canada room in the Lanyon building of the University took place followed by a formal unveiling of a commissioned oil painting of Frank. The symposium was organised and introduced by Professor Alun Evans (figure 4). The audience ...

during 2004-2005, a faunistic study was carried out on the edaphic mites in sorche-hesar forest park of tehran. a total of 14 species belonging to 10 families were collected and identified, of which four species, viz. iphidozercon corticalis evans, dendrolealaps populi walker, holaspina alstoni evans and rhodacarellus silesiacus willmann, are new records for iran.