The larva of the parasitic wasp Zatypota sp. nr. solanoi induces its host spiders Anelosimus spp. to modify its web in ways not seen in normal webs of this species or in any other species, providing apparent protection and support for the wasp’s cocoon by covering the entire web with a protective sheet and adding a central platform and opening a space below in the enclosed tangle, where the lar...

Widespread use of the Internet and the Web has transformed the public management 'quasi-paradigm' in advanced industrial countries. The toolkit for public management reform has shifted away from a 'new public management' (NPM) approach stressing fragmentation, competition and incentivization and towards a 'digital-era governance' (DEG) one, focusing on reintegrating services, providing holistic...

The electronic order (e-Ordering) service as an e-business process allows the true business-to-business secure collaboration by giving the opportunity to salesmen and purchasers to execute trustful processes of electronic trading opening new markets. The W3C working draft “Web Service Architecture (WSA) Requirements” and a set of EU Directives impose several security and privacy requirements th...

In this paper, a class of extended lower and upper levelings is investigated. Here, some conditions are imposed to the criteria for building extended lower and upper levelings in order to generate openings and closings with reconstruction criteria. The idea of building these new openings and closings comes from the notions of morphological filters by reconstruction and levelings. The main goal ...

This paper analyzes the impact of international trade on the quality of institutions, such as contract enforcement, property rights, or investor protection. It presents a model in which institutional differences play two roles: they create rents for some parties within the economy, and they are a source of comparative advantage in trade. Institutional quality is determined as an equilibrium of ...

Recent work shows that transcription factors are necessary for stomatal movements in plants. Different members of the plant-specific R2R3-MYB transcription factor family are required for mediating stomatal opening in response to light and stomatal closure in response to darkness.

In this paper, a class of transformations with reconstruction criteria is investigated. This class of transformations was initially proposed for obtaining intermediate results between the morphological opening and the opening by reconstruction. Here, the transformations are presented in the general case, as in the reconstruction transformations case, by imposing some conditions on the marker. T...

Presented at the Opening Panel of the Conference in Honor of John Nash’s 80th Birthday at Princeton University in June 2008. Updated: October 2010. Center for the Study of Rationality, Institute of Mathematics, and Department of Economics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. e-mail : [email protected] web page: http://www.ma.huji.ac.il/hart I have seen “nash equilibrium” in print, as if “nash” we...

Bridging the domain knowledge of a scientific community and the knowledge engineering skills of the ontology community is still an imperfect practice. Within the field of neuroscience, we have tried to close this gap by presenting an ontology through the medium of a wiki where each page corresponds to a class. By opening it to the World Wide Web, we have made the process of maintaining a ~20,00...

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