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Since 1998, when the First European Hemiptera Congress (EHC) took place in the small seaside resort Amaliapolis, Greece, the Hemiptera congresses are regularly held every two-three years: EHC 2 in Fiesa, Slovenia (2001), EHC 3 in St. Petersburg, Russia (2004), EHC 4 in Ivrea, Italy (2007) and EHC 5 in Velence, Hungary (2009). The nomination to host and organize the Sixth European Hemiptera Cong...

An isolated sixth nerve palsy may be a harbinger of underlying intracranial disease. Due to its long subarachnoid course, it may be damaged by downward shift of the brainstem as often occurs in increased or decreased intracranial pressure (“false-localizing sixth nerve palsy”). Alternatively, the sixth nerve may be involved in isolation by a compressive lesion in the cavernous sinus or along th...

Galina Ivanova Ustvolskaya was born in 1919 in Petrograd and has lived there throughout her life.1 She had her formal musical training in the Leningrad Conservatory between 1937 and 1950, where she studied with Shostakovich. 2 Later she worked as a teacher in the same institution for most of her life. Although the Soviet Union possessed an elaborate system of music education (Schwarz, 1965, p. ...

The vital signs are an integral part of clinical methods. In diabetes, determination of plasma glucose can be taken as the fifth vital sign. The sixth vital sign is well being, which can easily be measured by two item questionnaires designed to assess distress, depression and coping skills. This sign is essential for the screening and follow up of persons living with diabetes, as it provides an...

In 1991, one of the authors showed existence of quadratic transformations between Painlevé VI equations with the local monodromy differences (1/2, a, b,±1/2) and (a, a, b, b). In the present paper we give concise forms of these transformation, up to fractional-linear transformations. The transformation is related to better known quadratic transformations (due to Manin and Ramani-Grammaticos-Tam...

the attempt to build systems that show intelligence on a human level and scale while working in realistic situations, that is, systems that can operate in environments they do not know in advance, on tasks they are not specifically designed for, and that embrace the breadth of human capabilities. Motivated by the original idea of artificial intelligence in the 1950s and 1960s, there has been a ...