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1. Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA 98195, USA 2. Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA 3. McDonnell Genome Institute, Department of Medicine, Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63108, USA 4. Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh...

This study compiled a wide range of modern and historic geospatial datasets to examine ecological and geomorphic change at Diego Garcia Atoll across a 38-year period (1967–2005). This remarkable collection of spatially referenced information offered an opportunity to advance our understanding of the nature and extent of environmental change that has taken place with the construction of the mili...

Pacific Economic Bulletin Volume 22 Number 3 October 2007 © Asia Pacific Press Agriculture continues to play an important role in the growth and development of most Pacific island countries. With increasing populations and desire for higher incomes, the island countries will have to increase agricultural production, especially the Micronesian and Melanesian countries. In most countries, increas...

Television advertising levels in Europe are regulated according to the “Audiovisual Service Media Directive”, where member states of the European Union usually impose stricter regulation on their Public Service Broadcasting (PSB) channels. The present model evaluates the effects of symmetric and asymmetric regulation of ad levels on competition for viewers and advertisers in a duopoly framework...

In this paper, given a knot K , for any integer m we construct a new surface ΣK(m) from a smoothly embedded surface Σ in a smooth 4–manifold X by performing a surgery on Σ . This surgery is based on a modification of the ‘rim surgery’ which was introduced by Fintushel and Stern, by doing additional twist spinning. We investigate the diffeomorphism type and the homeomorphism type of (X,Σ) after ...

boundaries. The East-West Center promotes better relations and understanding among the people and nations of the United States, Asia, and the Pacific through cooperative study, research, and dialogue. Established by the U.S. Congress in 1960, the Center serves as a resource for information and analysis on critical issues of common concern, bringing people together to exchange views, build exper...

Rising postglacial seas have flooded the world’s continental shelves, limiting our ability to reconstruct human migrations, the history of settlement along Pleistocene coastlines, and the antiquity of coastal shell middens. This includes the southern coast of Beringia, where dramatic landscape changes make it difficult to test the coastal migration theory, which proposes that Upper Paleolithic ...

With the action by ABET to accredit undergraduate programs in software engineering, it is expected that many engineering schools in the U.S. will soon initiate such programs. The job market in computing continues to grow and there is much evidence of a demand for graduates who understand how to how to “engineer” software systems and products. From an international perspective, the U.S. is laggi...