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Dear Group,
recently I lacked a function in "Combinatorica" package
that could decide if two given graphs are isomorphics.
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scientific paper by Lin Chen "Graph isomorphism and
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in "Journal of computer and system sciences",
December 1999.
It is claimed in the paper
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about the problem. At least, is it proved that
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Unfortunately the article is not avialable
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Who Dealt This Garbage?
He scowled at a tiny violet flower, blossoming in the cool conditions. The brightly shining sun seemed to mock him with its cheerfulness. A bird twittered happily in the treetops. Despite the fact that it was late December, the weather was balmy and comfortable.
Kenshin was frustrated.
The situation was growing more and more complicated by the day, here. The incident that was supposed to have taken a mere two weeks had grown more and more complex, the conflict escalating into a mini-war between two antagonistic clans. Aoshi, Misao, and a few other Oniwabanshuu ninjas had joined them, but even with the added brainpower, no one seemed to be capable of compromise.
I want to go home! His mind screamed at him.
Home. A word he was finally able to associate with one particular place, rather than the road. More like a person. 'Home' was Kaoru, and he wanted to be there. Not only that, but he didn't quite like her being alone, after the Enishi business. Not to mention that mess with Saitou…
How was she faring on her own? Was she making enough to support herself while he, Sanosuke, and Yahiko were gone? Were Megumi, Tae, and Dr. Genzai helping her cope during their absence? Most importantly, was anyone making it worse for her? Because if that was the case, he'd have to hurry and clean this mess up.
Kaoru cursed colorfully under her breath.
I hate pirates.
She was currently being held hostage by a group of rather stupid buccaneers and the experience was quite unpleasant.
"So what's a pretty boy like you doing traveling all alone? Doncha know that your mummy ain't here?" said a large, bulky man with a sneer. Kaoru wrinkled her nose as his smell wafted under his nose. As glad as she was that her disguise was holding up, being called a man was never at the top of her to-do list.
You, my pungent friend, could use a bath. Or ten. "I'm just the poor s-son of f-farmer, sir," Kaoru stuttered out quietly. "Not a y-yen to my n-name."
His companion spat on the ground next to her. "Wrong answer, pretty boy!"
"I think you are mistaken."
"Eh? Who goes?"
The person, probably female (Kaoru had had way too many mix-ups in the past to give the voice a definite gender – Kamatari came to mind), was shadowed by the lamp light on the moored ship eerily. Her voice was low and commanding and very familiar.
"It couldn't be clearer that this person… is a woman."
"Wha – ?!"
He couldn't manage anymore before the butt of the woman's staff came crashing down on his head. His comrades soon followed. Kaoru kept her head bowed as the person walked over to where she was sitting bound.
"Hello again, Kamiya." Kaoru looked up with unwavering eyes and gasped.
I LOVE pirates!
It had been over a month since Ken-san had departed, taking Yahiko and Sanosuke with him. Next to go had been the good old doctor; but the most surprising of all the abandon her was Kaoru. Her private tutoring of the Saitou children had taken up most of her time. After two weeks of lessons, Saitou had started recruiting Kaoru for missions outside of town usually reserved for the police force, for reasons unknown to the woman physician. These missions usually lasted about a week and were very much clandestine.
Jun'ko was still selling whatever she could, well, rip-off from the gullible merchants around the port. Consequently, she was gone most of the day and taking the girls with her.
Suzume was supposed to start school this week; but Megumi stalled, knowing that the money was tight and that more than anything, Kaoru wanted to help in determining the young girl's future. Besides, she could already read and write well, thanks to Genzai's educated influence. Ayame had already been pulled from school because of financial reasons and Kaoru had quickly set her upon some old books she had in the shed. Yet she had insisted Suzume get her basic schooling from an actual instructor.
"If she can get the basics in school, we can build off all of that on our own, if need be. Both of them are smart for their age, Megumi. You shouldn't worry so much."
If I don't worry, who will? Megumi wiped the sweat off her brow.
That was the third delivery this week… I hate being the only doctor around. Yet Megumi knew that some people were simply avoiding coming to her because she was a woman. She wasn't sure what was worse – having to work such exhausting hours, or knowing that some rejected her skills simply because of her gender.
"Takani-sensei, thank you so much for your help today," wheezed the petite woman, exhausted. Her husband nodded seriously.
"Yes, we couldn't have done it without you. After Genzai-sensei passed…"
There was an awkward silence.
"It was no trouble at all, Makato-san," she replied politely. "The best of luck with little Higuchi. If you experience any problems with him health-wise, feel free to come and see me."
"Thank you, Takani-sensei."
They left a few moments later. Megumi cleaned her hands and tools and removed her stained smock, hating the echo her footsteps made in the empty dojo. But it wasn't empty for long. An older woman hobbled up to the gate, complaining of gout.
"Please ma'am, right this way…"
Kaoru was currently wrapped in a warm blanket in a seaside inn. She twiddled her fingers nervously around her teacup. Though she and the lady pirate weren't exactly enemies, they definitely weren't good friends. However, they shared a certain, unnatural rapport. Kaoru had already decided she liked her. Because it had been mostly Kenshin dealing with her before, she had never really gotten the chance to know the pirate.
"So, um, how's life treating you?"
"Well," replied Shura with a slight smile. "And yourself?"
"Busy. Very busy." Between the Saitou kids' (three sons) private lessons and the missions Saitou assigned her on the side, she had almost no time simply to sit and reflect like she was keen to do nowadays. It was good, in a way; whenever she sat still for too long, her thoughts could get a little too dark to be healthy.
"How is Himura?"
"On a trip. One that has been expanded indefinitely."
"You seem a little upset, yet here you are, far away from your little dojo."
"Well, when the men are away, I've got to occupy myself somehow, eh?"
"Sorry – if I had known, I would have brought some needlework along." They shared a smirk.
Kaoru felt her sudden kinship with Shura jump slightly. Both were women who could through a punch (or five), fighting for people to respect them constantly. Nothing was ever easy for a woman in a man's world.
"I'm headed that way myself. Funny coincidence."
"Oh? Why are you going?"
"To meet my fiancée. I've been away for – business quite awhile."
"That's great! What's he like?"
"Please tell me you're joking. Please."
The man smiled brightly at her. "It's great to finally meet you Kamiya-san. You must be the one Himura-san mentioned."
Shura looked back and forth between her fiancée and Kaoru. "Do you two know each other?"
Kaoru looked at Seta Soujirou. He was still smiling. She felt lightheaded.
"Well, indirectly…"
They spent the remainder of the day at tea shop, explaining exactly how they knew each other. Shura, who had known that Soujirou's past was shady, had no idea that he'd known Kenshin and vice versa – he hadn't know that she'd known him. Kaoru smiled faintly as they embraced their newfound knowledge of the each other with gusto.
They really care about each other… And it was made possible because of Kenshin…
"Sou-chaaaaan! I'm back!"
What?! Tell me he's not, tell me he's not –
Kamatari stood in the doorway, looking as unfairly feminine as ever.
You've got to be kidding me!
"And who is this little ragamuffin?"
Kaoru turned around with a wry smile. "Good to see you, too."
"Kamiya?" The distaste on Kamatari's face grew. "Why is she here, Shura?"
"She's on a mission assigned by your favorite."
"Saitou?" He grimaced. "I thought you had more taste than that, honey."
"Yeah, well, so did I. But, desperate times…"
"You must've been pretty damn desperate."
"Tell me about it."
"What are you doing in Kyoto, anyway?"
"Saitou sent me to retrieve something. A package he was being sent by an informant."
"And why, pray tell, isn't he using another, more replaceable lapdog to do his dirty work?"
"Wish I knew!" Kaoru said cheerfully. "Well, I'd better get going if I want to make it back to Tokyo in the next few days."
"Wait." Shura grabbed her arm. "We want to come with you."
"Back to Tokyo," said Soujirou to clarify. "That's where we want to live. For awhile, at least."
"That's where we want to get married. And you were born and raised there! You could help us, right?"
"I guess – I mean, I could, but I don't exactly have the best reputation right now. Something to do with being a woman my age and not married."
Shura rolled her eyes. "You act like I've never been prejudiced against before. I'm a female pirate, for gods' sakes."
"Well… if you don't mind being stared at in public… or cursed out… or possibly assaulted… then you should be fine."
Shura's eyes glinted dangerously.
"Don't worry… we are perfectly capable of taking care of ourselves."
"Believe me," was Kaoru's weak reply. "I know. All too well."
Kamatari smirked. "You know, tanuki-chan, I think I may be beginning to like you. We should have a rematch sometime."
Seijuro Hiko did not come down to the city proper very often. So whenever he did, people pointed and whispered, and nobody dared to approach him. And usually, when he actually came down from his little cottage in the woods, it was to pick up more saké, which he loved like any normal man loved his wife.
But today he bypassed his favorite shop for picking up the alcoholic beverage, walking straight on by, much to the gaping surprise of those shopkeepers. Everybody knew that he caught all his own food up in his forest, and had no need to shop in their marketplace; the last time he had come down to town not to buy sake was to defeat that giant man. Most people cared to block that memory out of their minds, though.
Today, Hiko was walking toward a certain seaside inn where a few certain people resided, mysteriously minus his baka-deshi. They were taking him for a fool if they thought he couldn't feel their ki signatures.
As much as it pained him to do so, he would leave his mountainous abode to make sure that the Kamiya girl was safe, since his baka-deshi was obviously too stupid to do it himself. He paused his thoughts as a familiar voice reached his ears.
"Yeah, I'll just head down to the Shirobeko quickly to talk to Sae-san, and then go from there. I'll be back in an hour or so."
He saw the girl cross the courtyard, unaware of his presence, as a tall, dark-haired woman nodded from the doorway of the inn.
She jumped almost a foot and gasped, turning on her heel abruptly. "Seijuro-san!"
Wow. Haven't updated this story in a while… and this chapter is abysmally short. Sorry! I've sort of switched to the Dark Side (ie, Naruto fandom), but I don't like leaving a story unfinished. So I will not give up!


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So here's us, on the raggedy edge.
Google's Gmail launched a few years ago, to quite a bit of fanfare. At the time it was definitely the best webmail client out there, though I think that playing field has levelled quite a bit. I've got a few Gmail addresses, though none of them are used in any meaningful way anymore. I prefer to keep my email private, and those little contextual ads that pop up started to creep me out, especially when they were combined with Google's tracking of web activities.
This morning I was going to create a new email address with Google when I was surprised to see, for the first time, a verification box that asked for my phone number:
Given the flack that Google's taken over privacy violations, it's interesting that they're asking for this. The system "verifies" users by asking you to enter an phone number to receive either a voice call or a text message.
This may seem harmless at first glance, but the ramifications are huge and far reaching. This is particularly true given that Google doesn't make any written commitment that this phone number isn't being stored permanently (not that I'd believe them if they said they weren't anyway.) That's privacy violation number one: it's highly likely that your phone number is store on a server in the United States if you're signing up on Google today, even if you live in a country that would prohibit storing that information locally.
Most people have limited numbers of phone numbers—two or three at most. By asking for this information, Google effectively creates a situation where anybody with multiple email addresses can no longer keep them discrete. There are perfectly legitimate reasons to have multiple email addresses—for business purposes, for intimate communication with close friends, for humourous purposes—but the new verification process means that Google has a database which can potentially connect all of these identities together. That's privacy violation number two.
These two combine into a potentially troubling scenario.
If you're using one of those Google email addresses as an online identity (anonymously or otherwise) anything you say that somebody doesn't like could potentially result in your information being hauled into court in the United States. A single lawsuit could result in Google exposing not just one but all of your online activity.
A lawsuit could compel Google to provide the verification phone number in court, exposing the first identify. It's a short logical leap from there to have Google reveal all of the email addresses and other services that used that verification number. Suddenly, all of your online identities are at risk and connected by that verification phone number, & if you've ever looked at material U.S. authorities would consider questionable online, it might now be exposed in court.
With reverse lookup phone number databases becoming increasingly common, it's a fairly simple matter from there to attach a physical address to your name. Suddenly all of that questionable material is tracking back to where you live.
There was a time, incidentally, when you couldn't do a reverse lookup. The phone company wouldn't let you. I tried once when I was a teenager: a friend had moved out of town and I had her phone number but not an address. When there was no answer I called the phone company asking if I could get it and they refused: the rationale was, in part, to prevent stalker like activities. That was the 80s. Two or three decades later into the future and stalker like activity is apparently the new normal. Go figure.
Google uses advertising cookies to track where you've been. This information is in a huge database. By definition it has to be, since they're using it to serve up ads. With the connection created between your two email addresses by that phone number, Google could potentially start serving you ads in one profile based on what you did in the other.
All those phone numbers in their database also make Google potentially the largest database of telemarketing information around. They may say they wouldn't use it for that now, but there's no reason to believe in the long term they won't eventually.
Let's not even consider the possibility that the database could be broken into and stolen. That's too horrifying to imagine. I could happen and you wouldn't even know: recent events at Sony. demonstrated that pretty clearly.
There's a common argument here that "If you've got nothing to hide, you've got nothing to worry about." That's a red herring, of course. You have a right to privacy. There's another argument that _"You get what you pay for" and it applies here in spades: Gmail is free, and since nothing's free in life it's worth considering what you're actually paying for it.
Google's product is people: they're packaging you up and selling you to advertisers around the world, and this verification step is just another part of that process. If they can make a profit from your phone number, they will.
Millions upon millions of people have obviously decided the trade off is worth it, right? More likely, they've decided to ignore the problem. More likely, they're not giving a second thought to the potential for harm here.
Don't give Google your phone number. Just don't. They don't need it, and there's no reason to ask for it.
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This semester is going to be packed full of wonderful opportunities. Here is the LowDown:
1. Studio partnership with Harmony Family Center a local adoption agency
2. Latent Realities: a scalar study of the works of the Tennessee Valley Authority
3. Advanced Landscape Construction
4. Independent Research Study in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park
After a busy and short break this winter we are all back at college ready to bang out another semester in year two. Many of us are taking a variety of electives and attempting to gain ideas for our thesis next year. We have basic skills and are ready to use them.
This semester our studio will be partnering with Harmony Family Center, an adoption agency here in the East Tennessee. We will build on a previous studios work (inventory and analysis). Our goal will be to generate ideas for master plans and site implementations which facilitate the therapeutic services of the center. I am really excited about this opportunity as my previous graduate degree is in Marriage and Family Therapy. I hope that my understanding and experience in facilitating healing and relationship building will be of benefit.
In Latent Realities we will be exploring the hidden realizations of the works of the Tennessee Valley Authority. Our focus and scale will be scalar in nature, much like the Eams video 'Powers of Ten'. We are looking to explore how the works of man have changed the culture and society from what it once was. We will be using Rhino and GIS extensively and hope to produce some fairly impressive visualizations which call to question traditional mediums of map representation.
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A Long, Dry Summer Promises Fine Wines
By TRISH HALL
Published: August 24, 1988
THROUGHOUT the Middle West, long hot days devoid of rain have stunted the fields of corn that cover so much of the landscape. But the drought has not been a disaster for all growers in the region. For some wine makers, the unusual weather may result in a better-than-usual product.
Bob Wollersheim owns a small vineyard and winery in Prairie du Sac, Wis., that is set in a hillside overlooking the Wisconsin River not far from Madison. This year's vintage is richer, he said, because the dry, hot weather caused thicker grape skins, which in turn imparted more flavor to the red wines.
''If you think about the places that produce great wine,'' he said, ''they often are starved for water.''
Once established, grapes need little rain because they are deep-rooted plants. Between mid-May and the end of July, Prairie du Sac normally gets seven or eight inches of rain. This year, Mr. Wollersheim said, it had none.
His crop was about 15 percent smaller than usual, he said, because the dry weather resulted in smaller grapes. But his initial tests of the new harvest, Mr. Wollersheim said, showed a ''beautiful'' wine in the making.
''The numbers in the textbook that you shoot for but never get, we got,'' he said, referring to optimum levels of sugar and acidity.
In New York State, ''hot, searing weather'' is expected to result in high-quality wine, said James Trezise, president of the New York Wine and Grape Foundation, a nonprofit group that promotes the wine and grape industries. But September is a ''critical month,'' he said. ''We're praying for no rain.''
This does not mean, however, that the quality of all wine made in the United States will be better than usual this year. In California, the weather has been quite variable, making it difficult to generalize about its effect on grapes. But for most California growers, ''it was not a drought year,'' said James Laube, a senior editor of The Wine Spectator, a trade journal. Because the harvest is not complete, it is too early to evaluate quality.
The ideal grape-growing weather, said John Gibson, associate wine maker at Stag's Leap Wine Cellars in Napa, Calif., is temperatures in the low 70's in April, gradually rising throughout the summer to peak in the low 90's in August, with no rain and no great fluctuation in temperature.
Even though that kind of weather is not common in the Middle West, the region has a growing number of vineyards.
''We have a super microclimate,'' said Mr. Wollersheim, who bought his vineyard and winery in 1972. The terraced vineyards are warmer than the surrounding towns, he said, and get less rain. The winery was started in 1840 by Agoston Haraszthy, a Hungarian who later helped found the California wine industry by taking thousands of cuttings from European varietal grapes there. At the Fenn Valley Vineyards in Fennville, Mich., three miles from Lake Michigan, the owner, William Welsch, did not appear too worried about the lack of rain this year.
''A grape can nicely handle a drought situation,'' Mr. Welsch said.
Other growers in the area have not been so lucky, though. A number of blueberry, cherry and peach orchards, which also hug the lake, had small or nonexistent crops, he said, if farmers were not able to irrigate.
Further north, at Chateau Grand Traverse in Traverse City, Mich., the 90-degree days may produce wines that are too flavorful and too intense, said Mark Johnson, the wine maker. At those temperatures, he said, riesling and chardonnay grapes can lose some of their delicate flavor. Although it is too early to judge this year's wine, he said, in very hot summers wines are often ''heavy.'' ''They just don't have the finesse,'' he said. In Ohio, Rose Debevc, an owner of Chalet Debonne Vineyards in Madison, said that until four weeks ago, the area had had only a quarter of an inch of rain since early April.
That hurt the new vines that were not yet established, she said, and made the old plants look like ''the hunchback of Notre Dame.''
But she, too, predicted that the drought would help rather than hurt the flavor of her wines, which are mostly whites.
''A nice dry summer makes a sweeter wine,'' she said. Her only worry now is that a sudden, heavy rain will burst the grapes.
Other parts of the country have had near-normal weather. Bob Betz, a vice president of Chateau Ste. Michelle, a large winery in Woodinville, Wash., said the weather in the Columbia Valley wine-growing region had been favorable this year.
''Right now we're expecting normal harvest conditions and quantities,'' he said.
Although weather patterns in California have been varied, even within the same county, some areas have dealt with more heat than usual.
''Based on what we see in the field, it should be a good vintage,'' said Kenneth Shyvers, senior enologist at the Robert Mondavi Winery in Oakville, Calif. ''Generally, when the vines are stressed a little bit more, you get a better-quality grape.''
It is still too early to tell, though, just how good the crop will be, he said. In recent weeks, he said, it has become much cooler, and ''that has thrown a curve in it.'' At Beringer Vineyards in St. Helena, Calif., David Schlottman, senior assistant wine maker, said that because of excessive heat in the spring, ''yields will be down between 30 and 50 percent'' in some varietals like merlot and cabernet.
Other vineyards had cold weather during the bloom, which led to a smaller-than-usual crop. Caymus Vineyards in Rutherford, Calif., for instance, expects its crop to be 20 percent smaller than usual. Lower crop yields may contribute to higher prices at the retail level. Charles Wagner, an owner of Caymus, said grapes from other vineyards that cost him $1,000 a ton three years ago cost $1,400 a ton this year.
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In 1963, David Poswillo received the first research grant awarded by the newly established Canterbury Medical Research Foundation.
His grant of seven pounds, ten shillings and sixpence enabled him to undertake research - in his garden shed, no less - into cleft lips and palates.
Poswillo went on to a distinguished career in facial surgery and his work relating to anaesthesia, sedation and resuscitation in dental practice is credited with saving many lives.
Poswillo's story of success in the medical world is echoed many times over by other recipients of Canterbury Medical Research Foundation research grants.
Since it was established in 1960, the foundation has funded hundreds of research projects which have contributed to better health for Cantabrians, and in some cases, led to ground breaking results and world-first discoveries.
The late emeritus professor Sir Don Beavan was the driving force behind the establishment, direction and success of the foundation and his involvement only ended with his death in 2009.
Those who worked with Beavan say there is little doubt that he was one of the keystones to the success of an organisation which has played a pivotal role in encouraging and funding internationally recognised medical research.
From the outset, the primary objectives of the foundation were to attract funding to support research in Canterbury, to enable projects assessed as having merit to get traction, and to bridge interim gaps in funding applications. It continues to meet these objectives thanks to the support of Canterbury's medical fraternity, universities and the wider community, the efforts of the executive and co-opted members and, of course, the generosity of donors.
The foundation's executive director Guy Johnson says: "The Canterbury Medical Research Foundation has played a huge role over the past 50 years helping emerging researchers get a foot on the first rung of the research ladder which will lead them to the world stage. The foundation has contributed close to $18 million in promoting better health for Cantabrians through research - something we can all be hugely proud of."
In 2003, associate professor Richard Gearry was awarded the Canterbury Medical Research Foundation Fellowship for three years, allowing him to work on his PhD investigating inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) in Canterbury. He has possibly done more than any other health researcher in New Zealand to advance understanding of IBD and he's adamant that the support of the foundation has been vitally important in this achievement.
He says the grant was "tremendously helpful as it enabled me to concentrate on this important research over an extended period, without having to worry about applying for other grants. There's no way I'd have achieved the same results so quickly without this support. We've now published over 50 academic papers on findings from my PhD. GPs are now much more aware of IBD than in the past, which encourages earlier diagnosis."
Over the decades the foundation has provided grants for research into a diverse spectrum of subjects including endocrinology, community health care, hypertension, keyhole surgery, emphysema, prostate problems, kidney function and Parkinson's Disease.
Johnson says that although vastly different, the research projects funded by the foundation all have at least one thing in common. "They were all undertaken by recent medical and science graduates based in Canterbury, fulfilling a fundamental objective of the foundation to exclusively fund local research initiatives and to give young medical professionals research opportunities they might otherwise miss out on."
Since the late 1960s, the foundation has also funded a summer studentship programme which has given over 350 undergraduate medical and science students their first introduction to research under the guidance of expert supervisors from hospitals and universities in the region.
One of the programme's earliest students was Peter Joyce, now the Dean of the University of Otago's School of Medicine. Joyce has an international reputation in mental health research.
The Canterbury Medical Research Foundation receives no government funding. Remarkably, every dollar it has raised over the past five decades has come from corporate, service club and personal donations, bequests and fundraising events such as the foundation's annual wine and art auction which last year alone raised a phenomenal $100,000.
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The Van der Veer donation has resulted in a centre of excellence in brain research - the Brain Research Institute - which currently boasts 84 active research projects, the research licence for New Zealand's first 3T MRI scanner and partnerships with the likes of the University of Canterbury, the Christchurch School of Medicine and the Canterbury District Health Board.
In the words of the late Professor David Poswillo, the foundation has provided for many "the thrill of discovery. For that achievement alone the foundation stands tall in the eyes of the world of medical science."
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To improve the health of Cantabrians by supporting quality medical research through funding of health researchers in our community and promoting the potential benefits.
Past Success
The opportunities the foundation has given to young researchers over the past fifty years, and the benefits this has had on the health of Cantabrians through better informed medical professionals.
Future Hope
To foster and promote the benefits of health research at the same level for the next fifty years.
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The establishment of the New Zealand Brain Research Institute as a subsidiary, and negotiating the MRI scanning research licence which enables students to undertake unique neurological research, thus fulfilling the aspiration of our founder Prof Sir Don Beavan.
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