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Public health medicine in Malta : past, present and future
This article highlights some of the significant developments in public health including the pattern of disease in past centuries when emphasis was on sanitation and control of epidemics. The improved social conditions as well as health care developments during the past decades have not only changed this pattern, but have also modified the approach to public health. The future presents us with challenges which we must face through appreciation of the issues involved and the use of appropriate strategies.peer-reviewe
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Leptoglossus corculus and Leptoglossus occidentalis are recorded feeding on red pine cones and conelets in Wisconsin and L. occidentalis is recorded feeding on red pine conelets in Minnesota
Release of bacterial spores from inner walls of a stainless steel cup subjected to thermal stress
In an earlier report thermal stresses, simulating those expected on a Mars Lander, dislodged approximately 0.01% of an aerosol deposited surface burden, as did a landing shock of 8-10 G deceleration. This work confirms earlier results and demonstrates that release rate is not dependent on surface burden
Characterization of dynamical regimes and entanglement sudden death in a microcavity quantum - dot system
The relation between the dynamical regimes (weak and strong coupling) and
entanglement for a dissipative quantum - dot microcavity system is studied. In
the framework of a phenomenological temperature model an analysis in both,
temporal (population dynamics) and frequency domain (photoluminescence) is
carried out in order to identify the associated dynamical behavior. The Wigner
function and concurrence are employed to quantify the entanglement in each
regime. We find that sudden death of entanglement is a typical characteristic
of the strong coupling regime.Comment: To appear in Journal of Physics: Condensed Matte
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Discovering qualitative empirical laws
In this paper we describe GLAUBER, an AI system that models the scientific discovery of qualitative empirical laws. We have tested the system on data from the history of early chemistry, and it has rediscovered such concepts as acids, alkalis, and salts, as well as laws relating these concepts. After discussing GLAUBER we examine the program's relation to other discovery systems, particularly methods for conceptual clustering and language acquisition
Are Noachian-age ridged plains (Nplr) actually early Hesperian in age
Whether or not the Nplr units in Memnonia and Argyre truly represent ridged plains volcanism of Noachian age or are simply areas of younger (Early Hesperian age) volcanism which failed to bury older craters and therefore have a greater total crater age than really applies to the ridged plains portion of those terrains is examined. The Nuekum and Hiller technique is used to determine the number of preserved crater retention surfaces in the Memnonia and Argyre regions where Scott and Tanaka show Nplr units to be common. The results for cratered terrain (Npl) in Memnonia is summarized along with those for ridged plains (Nplr) in both Memnonia and Argyre, and they are compared with similar results obtained for Tempe Terra and Lunae Plunum
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Correlated Phenotypic Transitions to Competence in Bacterial Colonies
Genetic competence is a phenotypic state of a bacterial cell in which it is
capable of importing DNA, presumably to hasten its exploration of alternate
genes in its quest for survival under stress. Recently, it was proposed that
this transition is uncorrelated among different cells in the colony. Motivated
by several discovered signaling mechanisms which create colony-level responses,
we present a model for the influence of quorum-sensing signals on a colony of
B. Subtilis cells during the transition to genetic competence. Coupling to the
external signal creates an effective inhibitory mechanism, which results in
anti-correlation between the cycles of adjacent cells. We show that this
scenario is consistent with the specific experimental measurement, which fails
to detect some underlying collective signaling mechanisms. Rather, we suggest
other parameters that should be used to verify the role of a quorum-sensing
signal. We also study the conditions under which phenotypic spatial patterns
may emerge
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