An annotated list of 83 scale insect species (Hemiptera: Sterorrhyncha: Coccoidea) recorded from Saint Lucia is presented, based on data gathered from UK quarantine interceptions, samples collected in an urban coastal habitat in the North West of the Island in 2013, and published records. Thirty-three species (40%) are recorded for the first time for the country, including Dysmicoccus joannesia...

Fasciola hepatica, the etiologic agent of fascioliasis in the Caribbean region, occurs throughout the major islands of the Greater Antilles and in foci on two islands (Martinique and Saint Lucia) of the Lesser Antilles. According to a study conducted by the Pan American Health Organization (I), fascioliasis is recognized as causing prodigious losses to the food animal industries of Cuba, the Do...

OBJECTIVE. To elucidate whether mental health dimensions have already been included in disaster and climate change interventions St. Lucia, a Caribbean island which is highly vulnerable to change. METHODS. We identified documents for national policy implementation analyze (1) the relative importance of (2) conceptualization health. These document analyzes were complemented by semi-structured in...

The University of Queensland now has three Collaborative Teaching and Learning Centres which represent an evolution in understanding of the interrelation between pedagogy, space and technology. The original and largest centre, with six collaborative classrooms of three different types was opened in 2005 and is located in the Sir James Foots building on the St Lucia Campus. In 2007, a second gen...

(1) Dulbecco Telethon Institute, Department of Experimental Medicine and Biochemical Sciences, University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Via Montpellier, 1 00133 Rome, Italy. (2) Laboratory of Cell Signaling, Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico (IRCCS) Fondazione Santa Lucia, 00179, Rome, Italy (3) Laboratory of Immunology and Signal Transduction, Department of Experimental Medicine and...

Received 8/8/2012 Accepted 7/3/2013 (005796) 1 Departamento de Nutrição Básica e Experimental, Centro de Ciências da Saúde, Instituto de Nutrição Josué de Castro, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro – UFRJ, Av. Brigadeiro Trompowisky, s/n, bloco J, 2o andar, sala 16, CEP 21941-902, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil, e-mail: [email protected] 2 Centro de Química de Alimentos e Nutrição Ap...

3 Barbara La Scaleia, Myrka Zago and Francesco Lacquaniti 4 Laboratory of Neuromotor Physiology, IRCCS Santa Lucia Foundation, Via Ardeatina 306, 00179 5 Rome, Italy, Italy, Department of Systems Medicine, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Via 6 Montpellier 1, 00133 Rome, Centre of Space Bio-medicine, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Via 7 Montpellier 1, 00133 Rome, Italy 8 9 Authors’ contribution...

The Lucia comprehension system attempts to model human comprehension by using the Soar cognitive architecture, Embodied Construction Grammar (ECG), and an incremental, word-by-word approach to grounded processing. Traditional approaches use techniques such as parallel paths and global optimization to resolve ambiguities. Here we describe how Lucia deals with lexical, grammatical, structural, an...