the second most common ©The hospital Medical Journal procedure of Australia and reason 2003 www.mja.com.au for hospital admis-Viewpoint sion in young women aged 12–24 years in Australia in 1997–1998, 1 and issues relating to family planning and female genital disorders (combined) represented the most common

Abstract The POLAR Investigation of the Sun (POLARIS) mission uses a combination of a gravity assist and solar sail propulsion to place a spacecraft in a 0.48 AU circular orbit around the Sun with an inclination of 75 ◦ with respect to solar equator. This challenging orbit is made possible

Professionalism is au courant in medicine today, but the movement to teach and evaluate professionalism presents a conundrum to medical educators. Its intent is laudable: to produce humanistic and virtuous physicians who will be better able to cope with and overcome the dehumanizing features

that of Australia differs from ISSN: approaches 0025-729X 16 based on national February interest, 2004 180 cost-effectiveness, 4 163-165 or commodification of a social ©The good. Medical Journal of Australia 2004 www.mja.com.au Human Viewpoint rights are considered to be guaranteed by human rights law, which

by the transpiration rates of grasses. We discuss implications of recent and projected increas-es iu atmospheric CO2 concentration for transpiration, soil water availability, and the balance of grasses and shrubs. Au increase in CO2 concentration often reduces potential transpiration/leaf area by reducing stomata1

Abstract. The emergence of new techniques in plant science, including molecular and phenomic tools, presents a novel opportunity to re-evaluate the way we examine the phenotype. Our increasing capacity for phenotyping means that not only can we consider increasing numbers of species or varieties, but also that we can effectively quantify the phenotypes of these different genotypes under a range of environmental conditions. The phenotypic plasticity of a given genotype, or the range of phenotypes, that can be expressed dependent upon environment becomes something we can feasibly assess. Of particular importance is phenotypic variation that increases fitness or survival – adaptive phenotypic plasticity. Here, we examine the case of adaptive phenotypic plasticity in plant water use traits and consider how taking an ecological and evolutionary perspective on plasticity in these traits might have relevance for agriculture, horticulture and the management of native and invasive plant species in an era of rapid climate change.

of the modelling space without the need to access the initial image or an object database. 1 Introduction Several representational structures have been proposed for the representation of spatial knowledge in different areas. Depending on the particular viewpoint the goals have been explanatory and predictive

supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. US. DEPARTMENT OP EDUCATIONOe of Ear awe AnAu, sveoelwai

This paper is an overview of the AVENUE project at Columbia University. AVENUE's main goal is to au-tomate the site modeling process in urban environ-ments. The rst component of AVENUE is a 3-D modeling system which constructs complete 3-D geo-metric models with photometric texture mapping ac

Thermal expansion behavior in a stoichiometric AuCu alloy was investigated from the viewpoint of a phase transition. Thermal expansion measurements were conducted from room temperature to 873K at various heating and cooling rates. The crystal structures and phase transitions were analyzed by X