The Chinese species of the genus Philoctetes Abeille de Perrin, 1879 are revised and keyed for the first time. Six species are recorded, of which two are new for science: Philoctetes longiflagellis Rosa, Wei & Xu, sp. nov. (Inner Mongolia and Shanxi) and P. simulator Rosa, Notton & Xu, sp. nov. (Tianjin). The new synonym, Philoctetes cupratus (Mócsary, 1914), syn. nov. of Philoctetes mongolicus...

Acknowledgements: We thank John McMillan, David Laibson, Colin Camerer, Nachum Sicherman, Duncan Simester, and three anonymous referees for useful comments. We thank Cara Barber, Rosa Blackwood, Mandar Oak, and Rosa Stipanovic for research assistance. For financial support, Frederick and Loewenstein thank the Integrated Study of the Human Dimensions of Global Change at Carnegie Mellon Universit...

Lateral branching plays an important role in the elaboration of adult plants architecture. Herein, we adopted a modified AFLP approach combined with a degenerate primer amplification to identify and isolate in the underinvestigated ornamental species H. rosa-sinensis an orthologous element of the MAX2 gene (More Axillary Branches), which acts downstream of the branching inhibition signaling pat...

The drying process of traditional Chinese medicine Rosa laevigata Michx was investigated in a laboratory scale dryer. Drying experiments were conducted at five temperatures of 40 ̊C, 50 ̊C, 60 ̊C, 70 ̊C and 80 ̊C. The experimental data were fitted to ten different thin layer drying models to select a suitable model for describing the drying process of Rosa laevigata Michx fruits. The results showed ...

In this paper, we present the knowledge-based system rosa working on spatial and functional organizations in agriculture. The reasoning in rosa combines hierarchical classification, case-based reasoning, and qualitative spatial reasoning. The goal of the system is twofold: formalizing and building a case base holding on farm spatial and functional organizations, and helping the analysis of new ...

Learning Content Management Systems (LCMS) supports e-learning applications with storage and efficient access for e-learning objects (LO)s. ROSA is a LCMS built as a semantic layer on the top of an XML native DBMS, Tamino. Together, ROSA and Tamino, offer instructional designers a semantic view of e-learning content. In this paper, we present ROSA Data Model and Query Language, designed as an e...

Learning Content Management Systems (LCMS) supports e-learning applications with storage and efficient access for e-learning objects (LO)s. ROSA is a LCMS built as a semantic layer on the top of an XML native DBMS. In this paper, we present ROSA Data Model designed as an extension to RDF data model with ordered collections and relationship properties and cardinalities. An algebra is proposed wi...