A new species of abertellid sand dollar, Abertella miskellyi n. sp., is described from the Miocene Camarones Formation of Patagonia, southern Argentina. The new taxon corroborates the existence of the genus in South America, given that Abertella is most common in the southeastern USA and the eastern coast of Central America. It is characterized by a unique basicoronal circle, in which the inter...

This paper proposes some new software metrics that can be applied to UML modelling elements like classes and messages. These metrics can be used to predict various characteristics at the earlier stages of the software life cycle. A CASE tool is developed on top of Rational Rose using its BasicScript language and we provide some examples using it.

We feature SandflyMap (www.sandflymap.org), a new map service within VectorMap (www.vectormap.org) that allows free public online access to global sand fly, tick and mosquito collection records and habitat suitability models. Given the short home range of sand flies, combining remote sensing and collection point data give a powerful insight into the environmental determinants of sand fly distri...

Organisms with external fertilization are often sperm limited, and in echinoids, larger eggs have a higher probability of fertilization than smaller eggs. This difference is thought to be a result of the more frequent sperm-egg collisions experienced by larger targets. Here we report how two components of egg target size, the egg cell and jelly coat, contributed to fertilization success in a se...

We generalize previous work done by Donald J. Rose and Robert E. Tarjan [2], who developed efficient algorithms for use on directed graphs. This paper considers an edge elimination process on bipartite graphs, presenting several theorems which lead to an algorithm for computing the minimal fill-in of a given ordered graph.

A simple and sensitive extraction-fluorimetric method for the determination of copper is reported. The 1,7-diaza-15-crown-5-copper-rose Bengal (DA15C5-Cu-RB) ternary complex is quantitatively extracted into chloroform, diluted with ammoniacal acetone and its fluorescence intensity is measured at 570 nm with excitation at 540 nm. A linear calibration graph was obtained over the copper concen...

Transmission lines located in the Sinai desert are subjected to desert climate, one of whose features, especially in the spring, is sand storms. Line insulators are thus exposed to sand contamination, which may produce streamer discharges in the air surrounding insulator surface. Such discharges may lead to flashover. This paper examines the electric field and potential distributions on sand-po...