fauna [3]). Some might suggest that the island home of every member of the relevant trans-Atlantic clade (Hispaniola, Fuerteventura, Mallorca, Menorca, Elba) would actually imply that this lineage was an active and successful disperser at times, instead of being only a passive passenger on tectonic plates. Rather than providing a definitive answer, our results and conclusions highlight the diff...

We demonstrate a new Fourier pulse shaping apparatus capable of achieving simultaneous high resolution and broad bandwidth operation by dispersing frequency components in a two dimensional geometry through simultaneous use of a high resolution and a broad bandwidth spectral disperser. We show experimental results which demonstrate significant improvements in achievable waveform complexity (numb...

We revisit the construction of high noise, almost optimal rate list decodable code of Guruswami [1]. Guruswami showed that if one can explicitly construct optimal extractors then one can build an explicit (1− 2, O( 1 2 )) list decodable codes of rate Ω( 2 log 1 2 ) and alphabet size 2 1 2 ·log 1 2 . We show that if one replaces the expander component in the construction with an unbalanced dispe...

Seven post-operative wounds were infected with a strain of Staphylococcus aureus, probably acquired from a theatre orderly who suffered from a dry generalized eczema. The orderly was a nasal and heavy skin carrier, and was shown to be a disperser of the epidemic strain. Infection was probably acquired from airborne contamination in the operating theatre, since the orderly did not scrub-up. The ...

Dispersive liquid-liquid microextraction (DLLME) followed by gas chromatography-massspectroscopy (GC-MS) was used to analyses of components of floral-water of Rosmarinusofficinalis . Some effective parameters such as volume of extraction, disperser solvents andsalt effect were studied by a full factorial design for obtain the optimum condition. The maincompounds of the floral-water of Rosmarinu...