The Nearctic bark beetle genus Scolytus Geoffroy was revised based in part on a molecular and morphological phylogeny. Monophyly of the native species was tested using mitochondrial (COI) and nuclear (28S, CAD, ArgK) genes and 43 morphological characters in parsimony and Bayesian phylogenetic analyses. Parsimony analyses of molecular and combined datasets provided mixed results while Bayesian a...

The concept of multiple partonic interactions in hadronic events is vital for the understanding of both minimum-bias and underlying-event physics. The area is rather little studied, however, and current models offer a far from complete coverage, even of the effects we know ought to be there. In this article we address one such topic, namely that of rescattering, where an already scattered parto...

paper is the result of a Canadian Studies Faculty Research Proposal Grant awarded by the Canadian High Comm ission in Australia. The author thanks two colleagues at Deakin, Professor Philip Clarke, the Head of the School of Law, who allowed the author time aw ay from his usual duties for research purposes, and D r. Danu ta Men delson, who m ade a num ber of com men ts on an earlier draft and th...

Frequent outbreaks of Pichia anomala fungaemia in paediatric patients have warranted the development of a rapid identification system for this organism. This study describes a specific PCR-based method targeting the rRNA gene intergenic spacer region 1 (IGS1) for rapid identification of Pichia anomala isolates and characterization at the strain level. These methods of species identification and...

This paper avails of the multinational-level Amadeus dataset to study the dynamics of the European pharmaceutical industry in the Single Market Programme era: 1990-2004. Our unit of investigations are multinationals that every period decide whether to expand or not, by capturing at least one of the arisen opportunities. By using a dynamic panel probit approach with unobserved heterogeneity we s...

Managing high-risk CLL during transition to a new treatment era: stem cell transplantation or novel agents? Peter Dreger, Johannes Schetelig, Niels Andersen, Paolo Corradini, Michel van Gelder, John Gribben, Eva Kimby, Mauricette Michallet, Carol Moreno, Stephan Stilgenbauer, and Emili Montserrat, on behalf of the European Research Initiative on CLL (ERIC) and the European Society for Blood and...

The tautog, Tautoga onitis (Linnaeus), ranges from Nova Scotia to South Carolina and has become a popular target for recreational and com­ mercial fisheries. Although tautog are a multiple spawning species, reproductive potential, measured as annual fecun­ dity, has not been estimated previously with methods (batch fecundity, spawn­ ing frequency) necessary for a species with indeterminate annu...