The main criticisms by Glover and colleagues of our ‘‘Short Report” (Wirtz et al., 2009) relate primarily to the fact that our study was exploratory, which is fully acknowledged in the paper. However, the point of publishing an exploratory paper is to allow other researchers to view provocative preliminary findings in order to gain insight into promising avenues of investigation. We reported th...

We examined the effects of a commonly used preservation technique on mercury concentration in fish tissue. After fixing fish muscle tissue in formalin followed by preservation in isopropanol, we found that mercury concentration in fish muscle tissue increased by 18%, reaching an asymptote after 40 days. We used formalin-isopropanol-preserved longear sunfish (Lepomis megalotis) from the Sam Nobl...

We address three issues that might be important in evaluating the validity of the planning–control model: (1) It could be artificial to distinguish between control and planning when control involves the re-planning of a new corrective submovement that overlaps with the initial response; (2) experiments involving illusions are not totally compelling; (3) selectively implicating the superior pari...

The cotton aphid, Aphis gossypii Glover (Hemiptera Aphididae), is one of the most important sap sucking pests in many cotton-growing areas world-wide. In this study, the efficacies of seven insecticides [organophosphate (Fenitrothion & Pirimiphos-methyl), carbamate (Carbosulfan & Aldicarb), pyrethroid (Lambda-Cyhalothrin & Deltamethrin) and imidaclopride (Confidor)] were determined against four...

Aphis gossypii Glover and Acyrthosiphon Mordvilko (Hemiptera: Aphididae) are key pests of cotton, Gossypium hirsutum L., known to induce cotton host plant defense responses. Deep RNA sequencing the transcriptome followed by differential expression analyses were performed clarify molecular mechanisms in response feeding these aphid pests. We found 6,565 genes differentially expressed Ac. 823 tha...

Thoughtful discussions of the value judgements employed in the course of designing development, such as those exemplified in Nussbaum and Glover’s volume Women Culture and Development, are rapidly proliferating, such that even the World Bank’s president asserted ‘that the World Bank’s central mission is to meld economic assistance with spiritual, ethical, and moral development’ (World Bank 1996...

In recent years the unconstrained binary quadratic program (UBQP) has grown in importance in the field of combinatorial optimization due to its application potential and its computational challenge. Research on UBQP has generated a wide range of solution techniques for this basic model that encompasses a rich collection of problem types. In this paperwe survey the literature on this importantmo...

Aurora/Ipl1-related kinases are a conserved family of enzymes that have multiple functions during mitotic progression. Although it has been possible to use conventional genetic analysis to dissect the function of aurora, the founding family member in Drosophila (Glover, D.M., M.H. Leibowitz, D.A. McLean, and H. Parry. 1995. Cell. 81:95-105), the lack of mutations in a second aurora-like kinase ...

We propose a backbone-guided tabu search (BGTS) algorithm for the Unconstrained Binary Quadratic Programming (UBQP) problem that alternates between two phases: (1) a basic tabu search procedure to optimize the objective function as far as possible; (2) a strategy using the TS notion of strongly determined variables to alternately fix and free backbone components of the solutions which are estim...