The present study revises the taxonomy of lace bug genus Perissonemia Drake & Poor, 1937 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Tingidae: Tinginae) from Japan. Three species are recognized and (re)described: P. occasa Drake, 1942 Honshu, okinawensis sp. nov. central part Ryukyu Islands, yaeyamensis southern Islands. Previous records parts Islands confirmed as misidentifications nov., respectively. host p...

In this note, we provide a complete proof of [2, Proposition 3.3]. For notational convenience, we use bold letters to denote vertices in Zd+1, e.g., o ≡ (o, 0) and x; if necessary, we denote the spatial and temporal components of a given vertex v by σv and τv respectively: v = (σv, τv). To identify the starting and terminal points, we write, e.g., φp(v;x) = Pp(v → x) and abbreviate it to φp(x) ...

We consider spread-out models of self-avoiding walk, bond percolation, lattice trees and bond lattice animals on Zd , having long finite-range connections, above their upper critical dimensions d = 4 (self-avoiding walk), d = 6 (percolation) and d = 8 (trees and animals). The two-point functions for these models are respectively the generating function for selfavoiding walks from the origin to ...

High voltage electron microscopy and computer axial tomography have been used to study the 3-D structure of trans-Golgi cisternae and trans-Golgi networks (TGNs) in NRK cells. Both structures were specifically labeled by photoconversion of a fluorescent analogue of ceramide using a modification of the techique of Pagano et al. (J. Cell Biol. 1991. 113: 1267-1279). Regions of the Golgi ribbon in...

Avoidable hospital readmissions not only contribute to the high costs of healthcare in the US, but also have an impact on the quality of care for patients. Large scale adoption of Electronic Health Records (EHR) has created the opportunity to proactively identify patients with high risk of hospital readmission, and apply effective interventions to mitigate that risk. To that end, in the past, n...

The antimicrobial properties of essential oils have been documented, and their use as "biocides" is gaining popularity. The aims of this study were to analyze the chemical composition and assess the biological activities of Hedychium essential oils. Oils from 19 Hedychium species and cultivars were analyzed by gas chromatography (GC) and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) techniques. ...

BACKGROUND Readmissions after hospital discharge are common and costly, but prediction models are poor at identifying patients at high risk of readmission. We evaluated the impact of frailty on readmission or death within 30 days after discharge from general internal medicine wards. METHODS We prospectively enrolled patients discharged from 7 medical wards at 2 teaching hospitals in Edmonton....

One of the most difficult challenges arising from dealing with so called legacy systems is how to identify and determine the ‘legacy status’ of such a system, where no commonly accepted definitions existed until very recently. This paper tackles this problem. It researches into the concept of legacy status and related issues, and aims at developing a set of frameworks and an associated techniqu...

The identity and function of host factors required for efficient phagocytosis and intracellular maintenance of the protozoan parasite Leishmania donovani are poorly understood. Utilising the phagocytic capability of Drosophila S2 cells, together with available tools for modulating gene expression by RNAi, we have developed an experimental system in which to identify host proteins of this type o...