Avian Flu – A Bird's Eye View

Birds' eye view: a decade of perspectives.

O of Jan Drake’s happy innovations as editor of other significant events (i.e., the first issue of Genetics in 1916). These have fulfilled the retrospective function. Genetics was to initiate the publication of an essay, entitled Perspectives, at the beginning of each issue. The perspective and prospective functions have been achieved by articles that have integrated classic studies His idea wa...

A Birds Eye View on System Identification

System identification is concerned with obtaining good models from data, i.e. with data driven modeling. In this contribution the aim is to explain and discuss ideas, general approaches and theories underlying identification of linear systems. Identification of linear systems is a nonlinear problem and is prototypical also for many parts of identification of nonlinear systems.

The Birds-eye View: Neuropsychology of Adhd

Avian Zoonoses: beyond Avian Flu

PSITTICOSIS Also known as parrot fever and ornithosis, psittacosis is caused by Chlamydophila psittaci, an obligate intracellular bacterial infection of birds that can cause severe pneumonia and other serious disease in humans (on average 250 reported cases per year in the US). Most cases resulted from exposure to infected pet birds, (cockatiels, parakeets, parrots, and macaws). Infected birds ...

What is binocular vision for? A birds' eye view.

It is proposed that with the possible exception of owls, binocularity in birds does not have a higher order function that results in the perception of solidity and relative depth. Rather, binocularity is a consequence of the requirement of having a portion of the visual field that looks in the direction of travel; hence, each eye must have a contralateral projection that gives rise to binocular...