Would St Johns wort beetles have been introduced to New Zealand nowadays

Has Coxiella burnetii (Q fever) Been Introduced into New Zealand?

grade fever of 2 months' duration. His past medical history was unremark-able, except for pulmonary tuberculosis treated 55 years earlier and chronic glaucoma. He lived in a rural area and had rare contact with cattle. On admission , his body temperature was 39.5°C; his right laterocervical lymph nodes were enlarged (3 cm x 4 cm) and inflamed. Blood values were unre-markable except for an eleva...

Less Would Have Been More1

Stephen Jay Gould, remarkable paleontologist and revered popularizer of science, died of cancer on May 20, 2002. With his death, he passed into the history that he loved; a history, as he well knew, whose mills grind exceedingly fine. Those mills have started work on his writings, just as he ruminated memorably over books by Lamarck, Cuvier, Goethe, Geoffrey St. Hilaire, Darwin, Weismann, de Vr...

System Identification without Lennart Ljung: what would have been different?

This chapter presents a personal view on the development of identification theory in the control community, starting from the year 1965. We show how two landmark papers, (Ho and Kalman, 1965) and (Åström and Bohlin, 1965), gave birth to two main streams of research that have dominated the development of system identification over the last fourty years. The Ho-Kalman paper gave a first solution ...

Management of introduced mammals in New Zealand

Of the 31 species of exotic mammals that have current wild or feral populations confirmed in New Zealand, at least 25 are actively managed as pests in at least part of their range to reduce their impacts on biodiversity and production values. This paper summarises the current legal status of introduced mammals, the strategic and tactical options to manage them as pests, and their actual managem...

St. John's wort.