About the cover: Colocalization of P2X4 using Anti-P2X4 antibody (#APR-002) (red) and P2X3 (green) subunits in the distal population of GPN neurons in situ by confocal immunofluorescence. Special Acknowledgement to Professor Colin A. Nurse from the Department of Biology McMaster University, Ontario Canada for allowing Alomone Labs to use part of a published figure as this Modulator's cover page...

Management normally sets company vision, rules and regulations through policies. These policies should provide guidance to employees and partners as to how they should act and behave to be in line with management’s wishes. These policies need to be structured and organized effectively to cater for business and technological dynamics and advances. Having defined a series of company policies does...

Retailers may engage in a range of marketing communications on their web sites. Our content analysis of web sites for 152 Fortune 500 retailers showed that more profitable retailers were more likely to use company specific, shareholder, web specific and customer service elements. We also found differences in the use of advertising, shareholder, company specific and web specific elements among g...

Sound exposures of Canadian Opera Company orchestra players were measured to assess the risk of hearing loss of players in orchestra pits. This was done during 18 sessions that included rehearsals, dress rehearsals and actual performances of two operas. Seventy-three noise exposures of musicians were measured using five dosimeters for the entire duration (3 h) of each event. The measured estima...

The Society for Experimental Biology, with the generous support of the Company of Biologists Ltd., have instituted a series of formal public lectures to be given by distinguished members of the Society, and subsequently to be published, as appropriate to their theme, in either the Journal of Experimental Biology, or the Journal of Experimental Botany. The series is named after Dr George Bidder,...

The biological soil crust (BSC) is a naturally occurring vegetation layer in the topsoil that composed of diverse array microscopic living organisms such as cyanobacteria, green algae, lichen, liverworts, moss, micro-fungi, and other bacteria. BSC cover well recognized for mitigating erosion caused by wind forces overland flow. By forming sheet-like microbe community, can bind loose particles, ...

Author and name of the thesis: Lauri Vuornos: Software Process Improvement in a Small High-Tech Company: Case Smartner Information Systems Ltd. Date: 26.5.2002 Number of pages: 105 Departement: Professorship: Electrical and Communications Engineering T-76