Wamnt Officer C., aged 26, was first seen on March 31, 1944, when he complained that he had been seeing black spots in front of both eyes for the preceding 2 months. He had noticed no signs of inflammation in the eyes. Examination.-Visual acuity in the right and left eyes was 4/4.5. Each eye had pigmented spots on the anterior surface of the lens and vitreous opacities. OphthaLmoscopic examinat...

We present measurements with the VLBA of the variability in the centroid position of Sgr A* relative to a background quasar at 7mm wavelength. We find an average centroid wander of 71±45μas for time scales between 50 and 100 min and 113± 50μas for timescales between 100 and 200 min, with no secular trend. These are sufficient to begin constraining the viability of the hot-spot model for the rad...

African penguins (Spheniscus demersus) carry a pattern of black spots on their chests that does not change from season to season during their adult life. Further, as far as we can tell, no two penguins have exactly the same pattern. We have developed a real-time system that can confidently locate African penguins whose chests are visible within video sequences or still images. An extraction of ...

The quantification of black crust formation on exposed stone has been carried out in this work with the aid of non-destructive analytical techniques. The proposed non-destructive Morphologically Fused Detection (MFD) approach, quantifies the deterioration effects encountered on marble surfaces by providing the number, location and shape of deterioration spots. According to this approach, a weig...

Charles Darwin was fascinated by the orchid-pollinator interactions, but he did not realize that many orchid species are pollinated by deceit. Cypripedium, a model lineage of nonrewarding orchid flowers, is pollinated primarily by bees. Here we present both an example of floral mimesis of fungus-infected foliage in orchids and an example of flat-footed flies (Agathomyia sp.; Platypezidae) as po...

We present measurements with the VLBA of the variability in the centroid position of Sgr A* relative to a background quasar at 7mm wavelength. We find an average centroid wander of 71 ± 45μas for time scales between 50 and 100 min and 113± 50μas for timescales between 100 and 200 min, with no secular trend. These are sufficient to begin constraining the viability of the accretion hot-spot model...

Stressful situations during development can shape the phenotype for life by provoking a trade-off between development and survival. Stress hormones, mainly glucocorticoids, play an important orchestrating role in this trade-off. Hence, how stress sensitive an animal is critically determines the phenotype and ultimately fitness. In several species, darker eumelanic individuals are less sensitive...

A new species of the suckermouth armored catfish genus Peckoltia is described from the lower Ventuari River, a tributary of the upper Orinoco River in Amazonas State, Venezuela. Specimens of this species were formerly included in the wide-ranging Amazonian species Peckoltia vittata, but a recent molecular phylogeny found Orinoco individuals to be distantly related to Amazon Basin individuals sp...