While resistance to anticoagulant rodenticides is known to occur in many European populations of Norway rat and house mouse, to-date no data is available on the occurrence in Ireland of such resistance. No genetic evidence for the occurrence of resistance was found in 65 Norway rat samples analysed, indicative of an absence, or low prevalence, of resistance in rats in at least the Eastern region of the island of Ireland. The presence of two of the most commonly found amino acid substitutions Leu128Ser and Tyr139Cys associated with house mouse resistance to anticoagulant rodenticides was confirmed. The occurrence of two such mutations is indicative of the occurrence of resistance to anticoagulant rodenticides in house mice in the Eastern region of the island of Ireland.

Individual scientists, "invisible colleges" (I), specialized groups of scientists, and scientific societies have been testing the expediency of distributing typescript copies (preprints) of papers before the formal presentation at a meeting or in a journal. (This discussion at times involves documents that were mimeographed, photoprinted, or otherwised duplicated.) Actually the idea is not new since

The symbol of the red hand is used by most institutions in Northern Ireland including our own Queen’s University Belfast. This image (fig.1) was made in 1950‘s to encourage visitors to Northern Ireland — the location of our school of architecture at Queen’s University Belfast. The illustration refers to the source of this image — a mythological story concerning a boat race to the island involving two competing chie7ains. Simply put, first to touch dry land would acquire ownership of the island. One of the chieftains senses he is behind in the race and therefore cuts oð one of his hands, throws it forward onto the shore becoming in the act the first to touch terra firma. He gains possession and the nickname Red Hand Larry.

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