Note and Comment

State Legislation Extending to Navigable Waters - In Southern Pacific Company v. Jensen, 37 Sup. Ct. -, decided May 21, 1917, the Supreme Court announces a decision in some respects of far reaching importance. It was held therein, Mr. Justice HOL.Es dissenting, that the WORKMEN\u27S COMPENSATION AcT of the State of New York did not support an award to the widow and children of a workman killed on board a ship of the\u27 Company while at the pier in New York City. Clearly the terms of the New York act covered the case, unless the fact that the accident occurred on navigable waters of the United States had a controlling effect to the contrary

A dynamical systems approach to the tilted Bianchi models of solvable type

We use a dynamical systems approach to analyse the tilting spatially homogeneous Bianchi models of solvable type (e.g., types VI$_h$ and VII$_h$) with a perfect fluid and a linear barotropic $\gamma$-law equation of state. In particular, we study the late-time behaviour of tilted Bianchi models, with an emphasis on the existence of equilibrium points and their stability properties. We briefly discuss the tilting Bianchi type V models and the late-time asymptotic behaviour of irrotational Bianchi VII$_0$ models. We prove the important result that for non-inflationary Bianchi type VII$_h$ models vacuum plane-wave solutions are the only future attracting equilibrium points in the Bianchi type VII$_h$ invariant set. We then investigate the dynamics close to the plane-wave solutions in more detail, and discover some new features that arise in the dynamical behaviour of Bianchi cosmologies with the inclusion of tilt. We point out that in a tiny open set of parameter space in the type IV model (the loophole) there exists closed curves which act as attracting limit cycles. More interestingly, in the Bianchi type VII$_h$ models there is a bifurcation in which a set of equilibrium points turn into closed orbits. There is a region in which both sets of closed curves coexist, and it appears that for the type VII$_h$ models in this region the solution curves approach a compact surface which is topologically a torus.Comment: 29 page

Studies on virus diseases of the grapevine in California

The principal symptoms that characterize the virus diseases of grapevines found in vineyards of California are described. The diseases are: PIERCE's disease, fanleaf, yellow mosaic, vein banding, leafroll, yellow vein, asteroid mosaic, and corky bark. It is the first report of the graft transmission of corky bark and an unidentified virus that produces fleck in Vitis ruprestris var. St. George.All of the grape viruses can be transmitted by one or more grafting methods, but chip-bud grafting has proved to be simple and effective. The soilborne viruses that cause fanleaf, yellow mosaic, and vein banding all mechanically sap-transmit to, and produce very similar, mostly indistinguishable symptoms in different herbaceous hosts. The GYVV (grape yellow vein virus) will also sap-transmit to several different herbs, yet the symptoms differ from those induced by the soil-borne viruses.Xiphinema index transmitted the GFV (grape fanleaf virus) from roots of sap-inoculated Chenopodium amaranticolor to roots of V. rupestris var. St. George. Evidence shows that X. index will also transmit the GYMV (grape yellow mosaic virus) from vine to vine. Evidence indicates that fanleaf, yellow mosaic, and vein banding are distinct diseases with definite and consistent symptoms, although apparently caused by strains of the same virus.Results of these tests to control the soil-borne grape viruses by injection of chemicals into the soil show that carbon bisulfide and methyl bromide are the most effective, though none of the chemicals used give complete control

Preoperative Kidney Function linked to mortality and readmission outcomes at Day 90 and 30 in Older Emergency Surgical Patients

Grants were received from British Geriatric Society and The Renal Association to support Louis EvansPeer reviewedPublisher PD

On the coexistence of position and momentum observables

We investigate the problem of coexistence of position and momentum observables. We characterize those pairs of position and momentum observables which have a joint observable

Environment and Obesity in the National Children\u27s Study

Objective: In this review we describe the approach taken by the National Children’s Study (NCS), a 21-year prospective study of 100,000 American children, to understanding the role of environmental factors in the development of obesity. Data sources and extraction: We review the literature with regard to the two core hypotheses in the NCS that relate to environmental origins of obesity and describe strategies that will be used to test each hypothesis. Data synthesis: Although it is clear that obesity in an individual results from an imbalance between energy intake and expenditure, control of the obesity epidemic will require understanding of factors in the modern built environment and chemical exposures that may have the capacity to disrupt the link between energy intake and expenditure. The NCS is the largest prospective birth cohort study ever undertaken in the United States that is explicitly designed to seek information on the environmental causes of pediatric disease. Conclusions: Through its embrace of the life-course approach to epidemiology, the NCS will be able to study the origins of obesity from preconception through late adolescence, including factors ranging from genetic inheritance to individual behaviors to the social, built, and natural environment and chemical exposures. It will have sufficient statistical power to examine interactions among these multiple influences, including gene–environment and gene–obesity interactions. A major secondary benefit will derive from the banking of specimens for future analysis