Fear-related stimuli are often prioritized during visual selection but it remains unclear whether capture by salient objects is more likely to occur when individuals fear those objects. In this study, participants with high and low fear of spiders searched for a circle while on some trials a completely irrelevant fear-related (spider) or neutral distractor (butterfly/leaf) was presented simulta...

The spider diagram logic forms a fragment of constraint diagram logic and is designed to be primarily used as a diagrammatic software specification tool. Our interest is in using the logical basis of spider diagrams and the existing known equivalences between certain logics, formal language theory classes and some automata to inform the development of diagrammatic logic. Such developments could...

Synopsis Incubation temperature plays a prominent role in shaping the phenotypes and fitness of embryos, including affecting developmental rates. In many taxa, including turtles, eggs are deposited in layers such that thermal gradients alter developmental rates within a nest. Despite this thermal effect, a nascent body of experimental work on environmentally cued hatching in turtles has reveale...

ptinidae or spider beetles, is a worldwide family of beetles especially distributed in the subtropical and temperate zones including iran. niptus holoeucus (golden spider beetle) from kangohar cave in fars province (iran) is described as new record for iran. we regarded this beetle as a troglophile and guanophile species.

Georgia is on the southeastern margin of the native range of the brown recluse spider, Loxosceles reclusa Gertsch and Mulaik. The brown recluse is not a common Georgia spider and has limited distribution in the state. Using recent submissions, previously published records, and examination of museum specimens, we document the spiderÕs presence in 31 (19.5%) of GeorgiaÕs 159 counties, with almost...

We present an extraction algorithm for spectral phase interferometry for direct field reconstruction (SPIDER) in the so-called X-SPIDER configuration. Our approach largely extends the measurable time windows of pulses without requiring any modification to the experimental X-SPIDER setup.

The effect of acetylsalicylic acid (ASA) injected in ovo on the 18 d of incubation on the hatchability, course of hatching, and thyroid hormone concentrations (thyroxine (T4) and triiodothyronine (T3)) in the blood of chicks exposed to control (CON) or hyperthermic (HT) conditions during hatching were investigated. Eggs (n=540) from a broiler breeder flock were incubated under standard conditio...

Background: In order to describe the patients and evaluate the effectiveness of treatments for widow spider envenomation, investigators require a reliable assessment tool. In this paper, the development of a clinical index for measuring the widow spider bite severity, Latrodectus Envenomation Severity Score (LESS), is described. Methods: According to the valid methods for index development, a D...

The design of a Web spider entails many things, including a concern for reasonable behavior, as well as more technical concerns. The RBSE Spider is a mechanism for exploring World Wide Web structure and indexing useful material thereby discovered. We relate our experience in constructing and operating this spider.