2 JUNE 2015 I n [Fingar, 2008], the US National Intelligence Council reported six potentially disruptive technologies for the year 2025, one of them being service robotics. The report states that, “[...] robots for elder care applications and the development of human augmentation technologies, mean that robots could be working alongside humans in looking after and rehabilitating people.” On a r...

Despite the establishment of extensive and successful control programmes in some countries or regions, Echinococcus granulosus still has a very wide geographical distribution. Mature E. granulosus (n = 120) obtained from Parasitology Department, School of Veterinary Medicine, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad (Iran). Soluble protein of whole body of parasite was prepared by freeze-thawing in liqui...

The discovery of Hordeum spontaneum C. Koch, a wild ancestor of cultivated barley, in Morocco in 1978 led to the proposal of a multicentric origin for this crop, as an alternative to the widely accepted theory of a single centre of domestication in the Fertile Crescent. Since this discovery, we have tested this hypothesis using the most advanced genetic techniques available at the time, from CM...