Declines in many bumble bee species have been documented in Europe raising several ecological and economic concerns. The nature and extent of bumble bee decline in North America is poorly understood due mainly to a lack of baseline and long-term data. Museum collections provide excellent sources of information on past and current species distributions, which can be used to infer changes in the ...

J. Robert Oppenheimer, ambitious leader of the Manhattan Project, struggled with intense ethical dilemmas. To continue to work on the atom bomb, he had to abandon his communist friends in order to prove to military monitors his loyalty to the US government. Later, Oppenheimer faced the moral implications of the project’s success. His struggles with ambition, betrayal, and moral quandaries made ...

Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) is one of the leading forest certification schemes. While many studies concern political aspects and social outcomes of FSC, little is known about the contribution of certification to biodiversity conservation. In Europe, the Russian Federation and Sweden have the largest areas of FSC certified forest. We assessed the potential of FSC certification for boreal bi...

An Expert System is an intelligent computer program that employs knowledge and inference procedures to solve problems that are considered difficult enough to require significant human expertise for their solutions [12]. Since the implementation of the first expert systems (the DENDRAL, MYCIN, Dipmeter Advisor, XCON, to mention but a few.) in the early 1970s, and the successes that followed, cou...

manual is a unique repository of guidelines, rules, and exceptions to rules; meditations and asides on writing and word use; behind-the-scenes anecdotes; and publishing lore. Berkshire offers sage advice for authors, editors, and reviewers alike—for anyone, really, who cares about how we all use the written word to convey information, perceptions, values, and visions, and to communicate with on...

European hares of both sexes rely on fat reserves, particularly during the reproduc-tive season. Therefore, hares should select dietary plants rich in fat and energy. However, hares also require essential polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) such as linoleic acid (LA) and alpha-linolenic acid (ALA) to reproduce and survive. Although hares are able to absorb PUFA selectively in their gastrointesti...

The Deepwater Horizon oil spill affected hundreds of kilometers of coastal wetland shorelines, including salt marshes with persistent heavy oiling that required intensive shoreline "cleanup" treatment. Oiled marsh treatment involves a delicate balance among: removing oil, speeding the degradation of remaining oil, protecting wildlife, fostering habitat recovery, and not causing further ecologic...

You will never examine a patient the way you did at Final MB again. Ever. OK, maybe you will at MRCP. Then never again. The examiner who expects you to examine that way never ever does it that way himself, either. That is one of the premises, recognised by many but never discussed in polite company, on which this book is based. It does exactly what it says on the back cover: aimed at student an...

A u t h o r : S h a n e A T h o m a s , Ph D. I have just completed the considerable task of preparing a doctoral thesis for assessment. Shane Thomas' pocket-sized How to book was invaluable. Thomas is an experienced academic, based in Melbourne. He has qualifications in social science, public policy, and research. He holds adjunctive professorial or research fellow appointments at four univers...

You will never examine a patient the way you did at Final MB again. Ever. OK, maybe you will at MRCP. Then never again. The examiner who expects you to examine that way never ever does it that way himself, either. That is one of the premises, recognised by many but never discussed in polite company, on which this book is based. It does exactly what it says on the back cover: aimed at student an...