Orussus melanosoma Lee & Wei, sp. nov. from South Korea is described and illustrated. Phylogenetic analyses place the new species basally in Orussus, together with other species from the Far East. A key to species of Orussidae from the eastern Palaearctic is provided. 

In a (generalized) symmetric aggregative game, payoffs depend only on individual strategy and an aggregate of all strategies. Players behaving as if they were negligible would optimize taking the aggregate as given. We provide evolutionary and dynamic foundations for such behavior when the game satisfies supermodularity conditions. The results obtained are also useful to characterize evolutiona...

1) Division of Applied Geology, Luleå University of Technology, SE-971 87 Luleå, Sweden 2) North Ostrobothnia Regional Environment Centre, P.O. Box 124, FI-90101 Oulu, Finland (corresponding author’s e-mail: [email protected]) 3) International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, IIASA, A-2361 Laxenburg, Austria 4) Finnish environment institute, P.O. Box 413, FI-90014 University ...

Advances in communication technology have opened a myriad of new possibilities for the remote delivery of healthcare. This new form of service delivery, not only contributes to the democratization of healthcare, by reaching far-away populations, but also makes it possible for elderly and chronically-ill patients to have their health monitored while in the comfort of their homes. Despite all of ...

Wemodel a learning dynamic in which players imitate and innovate. Of interest is to question whether Nash equilibrium play emerges, and if so, the role that imitation plays in this emergence. Our main result provides a general class of coordination game for which approximate Nash equilibrium play does emerge. Important conditions include that players imitate ‘similar’ individuals. The role of i...

Dr Jim Yong Kim is Chief of the Division of Social Medicine and Health Inequalities at Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital and an associate professor at Harvard Medical School. He was co-founder of the Boston-based advocacy group Partners In Health, which developed pioneering schemes to treat tuberculosis and HIV in resource poor settings. The group provides health services to men, women, and...

In their paper about progress towards universal health coverage in Brazil, the Russian Federation, India, China, South Africa (BRICS),1 Rao et al. report that in India in 2011, of total government expenditure, about 8% was expended on health. This estimate was from the World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) global health observatory data respository,2 which is based on national health accounts. Fo...

The aim of this work was to obtain the recombinant single chain variable fragments of antibodies (scFv) against human protein C, the key component of blood anticoagulation system. For this purpose a peptide that mimics a Pro144-Leu155 sequence of protein C was synthesized and the murine immune scFv library against this peptide was constructed. The protein C specific scFv 9E were selected from t...

1 College of Life Sciences, China Jiliang University, Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Biometrology and Inspection & Quarantine, Institute of Plant Environmental Biology and Measurement Technology, Hangzhou 310018, China 2 The Key Sheep Breeding and Reproduction Biotechnology Laboratory of Xinjiang Production and Construction Group, Research Institute of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary, Xi...