FLIES AS A NUISANCE AND FLIES AS A " DANGEROUS NUISANCE."

Nuisance flies on Australian cattle feedlots: immature populations.

Species composition, seasonality and distribution of immature fly populations on a southern Queensland feedlot during 2001-2003 were determined. Similar data were collected on feedlots in central New South Wales and central Queensland. The fly species recovered in the highest numbers were Musca domestica L. (Diptera: Muscidae), Stomoxys calcitrans L. (Diptera: Muscidae) and Physiphora clausa Ma...

Neighborhoods as Nuisance

Neighborhoods as Nuisance Parameters

Deviations from the center within a robust neighborhood may naturally be considered an innnite dimensional nuisance parameter. Thus, in principle, the semiparametric method may be tried, which is to compute the scores function for the main parameter minus its orthogonal projection on the closed linear tangent space for the nuisance parameter, and then rescale for Fisher consistency. We derive s...

Neighborhoods as Nuisance Parameters? Robustness vs. Semiparametrics

Deviations from the center within a robust neighborhood may naturally be considered an infinite dimensional nuisance parameter. Thus, the semiparametric method may be tried, which is to compute the scores function for the main parameter minus its orthogonal projection on the closed linear tangent space for the nuisance parameter, and then rescale for Fisher consistency. We derive such a semipar...

Flies as models of disease

By all appearances flies and humans are quite different. Nevertheless, their genetics and underlying DNA sequences are remarkably similar. Many human disease genes have sequences common with those in Drosophila (Bier, 2005). This genetic similarity supports the notion that basic research in Drosophila will accelerate translational research for a wide range of diseases. Disease-orientated Drosop...