he Task Force on Community Preventive Ser­ vices (Task Force) chose to include prevention of breast, cervical, and colorectal cancer hrough interventions to increase screening as a topic n the Guide to Community Preventive Services (Commun uide) for several reasons. First, these cancers impose a arge health burden on the U.S. population; second, here are effective screening tests that can reduc...

The life table parameters of Macrosiphum rosae L. (Hemiptera: Aphididae) on five vermicompost-tea (tea-compost) concentrations (20, 40, 60, 80 and 100%) and control treatment (0%) on Rosa hybrida L. were determined under laboratory conditions. There were significant differences among pre-imaginal period and adult longevity of the aphid on the five teacompost concentrations. The highest mortalit...

Abstract Microstigmus Ducke (Hymenoptera, Apoidea, Crabronidae, Pemphredoninae) is an intriguing genus of wasp, particularly interesting for the study social evolution as it contains only species apoid wasps known to exhibit eusocial behaviours. Thus far, data concerning genetics and biology sociality in are restricted just two . Through behavioural observations genetic analyses, we here presen...

The present work is concerned with the processing of spectral inforrnation by stochastic coding, at the output of the cochlea. We study the collective behaviour of a !arge number of cells based on a measure of the correlation of sequences of spikes between neighbour units. Our first results show that we can obtain significant discrimination of spectra1 components of vowels without any kind of c...

The t-arge Helical Device (LHD), the large scale superconducting helical device, is under construction at the National Institute for Fusion Science and is now in the last year of the g-year construction schedule. The outline of the LHD program, the status of the on-site construction are described. The confinement and steady state operation are experimentally studied on high temperature plasmas ...

The determination of Region-of-Interest has been re cognised as an important means by which unimportant image content can be identified and exc luded during image compression or image modelling, however existing Region-of-Interest dete ction methods are computationally expensive thus are mostly unsuitable for managing l arge number of images and the compression of images especially for real-tim...