Scoping current and future genetic tools, their limitations and their applications for wild fisheries management

The overarching goal of this project was to prepare a document that summarises past, present and emerging ways in which research using genetic technology can assist the Australian fishing industry to maintain productive and sustainable harvests. The project achieved the following specific objectives: 1. Documented existing and prospective biotechnologies and genetic analysis tools that are relevant to wild fisheries management, and their availability and application at a national and international level; 2. Documented the FRDC’s past and current investment in biotechnology and genetic tools used in wild fisheries management research; 3. Documented the different biotechnology and genetic tools that are being used in wild fisheries management research in Australia, and the nature and location of key research groups; 4. Described what management question each tool has been used for (e.g. stock structure, biomass estimation, product provenance, disease monitoring); 5. Identified those tools and approaches (existing and future) most likely to deliver significant advances in fisheries management; 6. Identified the potential for collaborations which could improve the focus and impact of work in this area

Studies of structural damage in high-[Tc] superconductors by high-energy heavy-ion irradiation

The results of studies of structural damage by high-energy (MeV) Si[sup +13], Cu[sup +18], Ag[sup +21], and Au[sup +24] ions, using transmission electron microscopy techniques, revealed that the size of the damaged area (amorphous) is strongly dependent on: (1) the stopping power [dE/dx (keV/nm)] of the irradiating ions, (2) the thermal diffusivity of the crystal, (3) the degree of oxygenation, in the case of YBa[sub 2]Cu[sub 3]O[sub 7-[delta]], and (4) the direction of the ion beam with respect to the crystallographic axis

Spin Transfer Measurements for (p,n) Reactions at Intermediate Energy

This research was sponsored by the National Science Foundation Grant NSF PHY 87-1440

Measurements of Gamow-Teller Strength Distributions in Masses 13 and 15

This research was sponsored by the National Science Foundation Grant NSF PHY 87-1440

On the `Stationary Implies Axisymmetric' Theorem for Extremal Black Holes in Higher Dimensions

All known stationary black hole solutions in higher dimensions possess additional rotational symmetries in addition to the stationary Killing field. Also, for all known stationary solutions, the event horizon is a Killing horizon, and the surface gravity is constant. In the case of non-degenerate horizons (non-extremal black holes), a general theorem was previously established [gr-qc/0605106] proving that these statements are in fact generally true under the assumption that the spacetime is analytic, and that the metric satisfies Einstein's equation. Here, we extend the analysis to the case of degenerate (extremal) black holes. It is shown that the theorem still holds true if the vector of angular velocities of the horizon satisfies a certain "diophantine condition," which holds except for a set of measure zero.Comment: 30pp, Latex, no figure