Pew Australians, New Zealanders, or South Africans living in the UK have managed to avoid the patronising put -downs or crude stereotypes that Britons gleefully trundle out when they hear the foreign accent. For Australians ...

It is proposed to sample antithetically rather than randomly from the posterior density in Bayesian inference using Monte Carlo integration. Conditions are established under which the number of replications required with ...

OBJECTIVE: Many patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) experience symptoms of anxiety; however, it is unclear whether anxiety is an issue in the early recovery period and the types of factors and ...

A subspace of a multipartite Hilbert space is said to be locally indistinguishable if any orthonormal basis of this subspace cannot be perfectly distinguished by local operations and classical communication. Previously it ...

Described as a 'shining aberration', the reformist agenda of Edward Gough Whitlam's brief prime ministership (1972-1975) profoundly affected Australia's cultural, social, and--ultimately--political landscape. (1) These ...

An efficient algorithm for manipulator path planning is presented in this paper. Because of the complexity of the problem nature, it frequently takes a long time for the planner to find an optimal path. This drawback may ...

Background and Aims: We examined extrinsic and intrinsic (endogenous) mitochondrial apoptosis pathways in experimental non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH). Methods: To assess extrinsic pathways, we measured hepatic ...