Q fever, caused by Coxiella burnetii, is a serious zoonotic disease in humans with a worldwide distribution. Many species of animals are capable of transmitting C. burnetii, and consequently all veterinary workers are at ...

In this thesis we investigate the rational and Riccati type special solutions for particular parameter values of a q-discrete analogue of the third Painlevé equation, with rational surface A(1) 5 and affine Weyl group ...

During the heyday of European imperial expansion in the late nineteenth century, competing European powers annexed new territories in Africa, Asia and the Pacific in quick succession. The colonizing powers used their ...

Phylogenetic tree reconstruction is a prominent problem in computational biology. Currently, all computational methods have their limitations and work well only for simple problems of small size. No existing method can ...

Aims To examine QT intervals corrected for heart rate (QTc) in adolescents with Type 1 diabetes compared with control subjects, and to determine associations with metabolic control and autonomic function. Methods Resting ...

This brief report looking at media coverage of quad bike related deaths and injuries in Australia throughout 2010 indicates that there were at least nine deaths and 43 serious injuries. This is almost certainly an underestimate ...

This report outlines the fatal and non-fatal quad bike cases reported in the Australian print media for 2012