EXCYSTMENT OF CRYPTOCOTYLE LINGUA METACERCARIAE

On the trematode species. Phocitrema fusiforme Goto and Ozaki, 1930 and Cryptocotyle lingua (Creplin, 1825).

The Lingua Franca of Technology

To be well-informed computer scientists, do we need to follow the Russian, Chinese, or Romanian computing literature? Can we say our field is truly international when we publish most of our results in English? Must a global community rely on a common tongue—a lingua franca—to support its activities? I’d never thought about Romanian computing literature before I stumbled upon it at the Library o...

The Kinetics of Excystment in Colpoda Duodenaria

1. Extensive experimental data have been collected on the time required for the excystment process of the small ciliate Colpoda duodenaria throughout a range of temperatures of 8 degrees through 32 degrees C. and a range of concentrations of yeast extract excystment media of 0.08 through 22.4 gm./liter. 2. The excystment process has been separated into two periods, the first inversely proportio...

Lingua Franca

This paper examines a set of three patterns that examine the issues that arise when data are to be shared among several applications in one or more different formats. When an ENGLISH ONLY/STANDARD REPRESENTATION can be used, conversion and translation are moot issues. However, this simplicity is not without its cost. When freely CONVERTIBLE CURRENCIES are available, data are not isolated and tr...

Portal da Lingua Portuguesa

The goal of the Portal da Língua Portuguesa project is to construe a set of lexical resources with a double objective. On the one hand, the resources serve as the content source for a web site about the Portuguese language, aimed at the general public. On the other hand, the resources are built to serve as an open source repository of lexical information for linguistic research. The design of t...