ROM June 1947 to December 1948, HOSINO stayed at SanagC, a village F loca ted about 30 kilometers east of Nagoya, and taught biology in a local high school. In the meantime he succeeded in cultivating interest in the genetics of the lady-beetle among the students, and he organized a group of the students who assisted him in his research works. These boys collected the beetles from various plant...

Contemporary human sub-populations exhibit great differences in the frequency of various alleles, or the set of variations of a particular gene. Advances in genome sequencing have rapidly improved speed, cost, and accuracy, allowing unprecedented opportunity to map the functionality and location of such genetic variation. Of particular interest is the mapping of disease associated loci in the g...

Purpose: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a serious health concern. Not only has ADHD been implicated as factors of academic performance in school children, it has been positively correlated with delinquency and drug use. Likewise, convergence insuf­ ficiency (CI) has been correlated with ADHD. Vision Therapy (VT) has recently been shown to improve both symptoms and clinical o...

The "small” spout, 19/64” or 5/16” in diameter, has been widely available to maple producers since the mid to late 1990's as a "healthy" alternative to the traditional 7/16” spout. While now in general use by producers in some regions, particularly those collecting sap by vacuum, the utility of these smaller spouts is still questioned by many sugarmakers, particularly those collecting sap by gr...

An increase in the use of plastic tubing systems to collect sap from sugar maples (Acer saccharum) has allowed syrup producers to boost production in recent years, but not without cost. Rodents gnawing on tubing, spouts, and fittings may cause damage in excess of $300,000 annually in Vermont, the largest maple producing state. Red squirrels (Tamiasciurus hudsonicu3), gray squirrels (Sciurus car...

Sugar maple, Acer saccharum, decline disease is incited by multiple disturbance factors when imbalanced calcium (Ca), magnesium (Mg), and manganese (Mn) act as predisposing stressors. Our objective in this study was to determine whether factors affecting sugar maple health also affect growth as estimated by basal area increment (BAI). We used 76 northern hardwood stands in northern Pennsylvania...

TheNorthAmericanNeuroendocrine Tumor Society (NANETS) had its initial organizational meeting in Portland, Oregon on September 28, 2006 to establish a professional society with the primary purpose to improve neuroendocrine tumor disease management through increased research and educational opportunities. This founding group was comprised of scientists, physicians, and surgeons representing a var...

Closely related species often bear many similarities in outward appearance—think of the elongated snout of wolf and dog, or the opposing twigs on Norway and sugar maples. The parsimonious explanation for similar features is that they arise by similar developmental mechanisms, but an emerging concept in evolutionary development suggests this may not always be so. ‘‘Developmental systems drift’’ ...

The Pederson et al. (2014) letter deals ostensibly with their opinion that we (Nowacki & Abrams, 2014) failed to consider the lessening of drought after the 1930s as a major driver of post-European forest dynamics in the eastern U.S. We are befuddled by this because our paper includes long-term precipitation data for four study regions and we report a slight increase (2–8% change) from 1895 to ...