In the past 40 years, causal agent of yellow rust in barley, Psh (Puccinia striiformis f. sp. hordei Erikss), has been registered worldwide. However, it caused greatest damage areas with cold and humid climates, where yield losses reached up to 70%. Races P. tritici (Pst), wheat, are usually not found those that infect barley (Psh) rarely virulent on wheat. there genotypes can be infected by ce...

Beginning to construct a chronology of Pyu sculpture is exceedingly difficult. An extraordinary stone stele, discovered at Sri ~etra in the 1970s presents a new dimension to our understanding of the origins of the Pyu sculptural style. It invites comparison with Indian prototypes of the early centuries AD from Andhra Pradesh, especially the low relief panels favoured for stupa decoration at Nag...

Lennart Philipson died on June 26, 2011. His passing is a great loss to the worldwide biomedical research community. He was a big man—physically, emotionally and operationally, dominating rooms, psyches and institutions. He was my wonderful friend, and when Lennart became your friend, it filled a big need in your life. Lennart was a Swedish virologist/microbiologist who earned both an MD and a ...

As different in approach and range as they undoubtedly are, these four books all share an interest in medieval representational practices out of which complex ideas and theories concerning bodies — indeed, out of which different bodies — emerge. Katharine Park’s Secrets of Women is a wonderfully rich study of anatomy and dissection in northern Italy as it developed from the fourteenth to the si...

The wealth of literature indicating that men are more physically aggressive than women may be the reason for the dearth of research on physical aggression in women. However, recent research has found that this discrepancy is better attributed to conformity to gender roles rather than to biological sex. The purpose of the present study was to assess the influence of masculine and feminine gender...

Robots have received a great deal of publicity recently. The movie “Star Wars” and several television series such as “The Six Million Dollar Man” and “The Bionic Woman” have raised the consciousness of the public to the subject of robots. The enormous influx of foreign cars manufactured in part by robots has aroused awareness of the press and many politicians to the fact that robots can have a ...

Nanoelectronic devices form the building blocks of the nanoscaled systems and require innovative technologies for their realization. Single Electron Transistors (SET) is a novel class of nano transistor which operates on the principle of Coulomb blockade. Coulomb blockade effects become dominant when the device dimensions approach few nano-meters. The SET devices are potential candidates for ap...