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Good old days of Molong / by J.C.L. Fitzpatrick.
No full textElectronic reproduction. Canberra, A.C.T. : National Library of Australia, 2011
Male-female relatedness and patterns of male reproductive investment in guppies
No full textInbreeding can cause reductions in fitness, driving the evolution of pre- and postcopulatory inbreeding avoidance mechanisms. There is now considerable evidence for such processes in females, but fewstudies have focused on males, particularly in the context of postcopulatory inbreeding avoidance. Here, we address this topic by exposing male guppies (Poecilia reticulata) to either full-sibling or unrelated females and determining whether they adjust investment in courtship and ejaculates. Our results revealed that males reduce their courtship but concomitantly exhibit short-term increases in ejaculate quality when paired with siblings. In conjunction with prior work reporting cryptic female preferences for unrelated sperm, our present findings reveal possible sexually antagonistic counter-adaptations that may offset postcopulatory inbreeding avoidance by females. © 2014 The Author(s)
Non 3-choosable bipartite graphs and the Fano plane
No full textIt is known that the smallest complete bipartite graph which is not 3-choosable has 14 vertices. We show that the extremal configuration is unique.PT: J; CR: BROWN E, 2002, MATH MAG, V75, P83 ERDOS P, 1979, CONGRESSUS NUMERANTI, V26, P155 FITZPATRICK SL, DMS854IR U VICT DEP HAUSON D, 1996, ARS COMBINATORIA, V44, P183 VIZING VG, 1976, DISKRET ANAL, V29, P3 WOODALL DR, 2001, LONDON MATH SOC LECT, V288, P269; NR: 6; TC: 0; J9: ARS COMB; PG: 15; GA: 948CQSource type: Electronic(1
Evidence for the decay B0→J/ψω and measurement of the relative branching fractions of meson decays to J/ψη and J/ψη′
No full textFirst evidence of the B 0 → J / ψ ω decay is found and the B s 0 → J / ψ η and B s 0 → J / ψ η ′ decays are studied using a dataset corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1.0 fb -1 collected by the LHCb experiment in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of sqrt(s) = 7 TeV. The branching fractions of these decays are measured relative to that of the B 0 → J / ψ ρ 0 decay:frac(B (B 0 → J / ψ ω), B (B 0 → J / ψ ρ 0)) = 0.89 ± 0.19 (stat) - 0.13 + 0.07 (syst),frac(B (B s 0 → J / ψ η), B (B 0 → J / ψ ρ 0)) = 14.0 ± 1.2 (stat) - 1.5 + 1.1 (syst) - 1.0 + 1.1 (frac(f d, f s)),frac(B (B s 0 → J / ψ η ′), B (B 0 → J / ψ ρ 0)) = 12.7 ± 1.1 (stat) - 1.3 + 0.5 (syst) - 0.9 + 1.0 (frac(f d, f s)), where the last uncertainty is due to the knowledge of f d / f s, the ratio of b-quark hadronization factors that accounts for the different production rate of B 0 and B s 0 mesons. The ratio of the branching fractions of B s 0 → J / ψ η ′ and B s 0 → J / ψ η decays is measured to befrac(B (B s 0 → J / ψ η ′), B (B s 0 → J / ψ η)) = 0.90 ± 0.09 (stat) - 0.02 + 0.06 (syst)
Joan Fitzpatrick: In Memoriam
No full textJoan Fitzpatrick graduated from Harvard Law School in 1975. Women were then beginning to enter the legal profession in increasing numbers, but role models were still important in encouraging women to become equal partners in our profession. Joan was an especially effective role model for our students. I think she realized that. It was one of the things that drove her to excel in everything she did. Joan told me—more than once in fact—that she earned every penny she made. It was a point of pride to her. She was a hard worker whose work yielded very important results. And she was the kind of teacher who would make students think: If Professor Fitzpatrick can do that, then I can also do great and important things. Joan joined our faculty in 1984. In her eighteen years with us, she became an internationally known and respected authority on human rights. She was a primary author or editor of six books, the author or co-author of fourteen book chapters, and the author or co-author of about forty scholarly articles. Joan spoke on issues of international human rights throughout North America and Europe. In the words of one of her admirers, she was brilliant, eloquent, and internationally renowned
Protocol for the United Kingdom Rotator Cuff Study (UKUFF) : a randomised controlled trial of open and arthroscopic rotator cuff repair
No full textThis project was funded by the NIHR Health Technology Assessment programme (project number 05/47/02). J. L. Rees has received a grant from Oxford University which is related to this paper. J. Dawson reports that Oxford University has received a grant from HTA which is related to this paper, as well as a study grant.Peer reviewe
Book Review: Context: A Framework for its Influence on Evaluation Practice (New Directions for Evaluation, No. 135)
No full textBook review of: Context: A Framework for its Influence on Evaluation Practice (New Directions for Evaluation, No. 135), Debra J Rog, Jody L Fitzpatrick and Ross F Conner, Jossey-Bass, San Francisco and the American Evaluation Association, 2012, 111 pages, paperback, A39.99, 978-1-118-46328-4 (ISSN: 1097-6736 for printed subscription version
Are digital parties the future of party organization? A symposium on The Digital Party: Political Organisation and Online Democracy by Paolo Gerbaudo
No full textOn the covering dimension of the set of solutions of some nonlinear equations
No full textWe prove an abstract theorem whose sole hypothesis is that the degree of a certain map is nonzero and whose parametric equations are studied using cohomological mconclusions imply sharp, multidimensional continuation results. Applications are given to nonlinear partial differential equations
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