Gauromydas Wilcox, Papavero & Pimentel, 1989 are giant flies, and include the largest fly known, G. heros (Perty, 1833). This genus was originally erected to group four Neotropical species, namely G. apicalis (Wiedemann, 1830), G. autuorii (d'Andretta, 1951), G. heros, and G. mystaceus (Wiedemann, 1830). As with most of the remaining Mydidae, adults of Gauromydas are very rarely collected. We h...

The direct conversion between HEROS-XES and XANES edge position (E0) without need of measuring absorption spectra.

Plants limit the range of insect substrate-borne vibratory communication by their architecture and mechanical properties that change transmitted signal time, amplitude and frequency characteristics. Stinkbugs gain higher signal-to-noise ratio and increase communication distance by emitting narrowband low frequency vibratory signals that are tuned with transmission properties of plants. The obje...

Laboratory studies were conducted to verify the influence of photophase on diapause incidence in the Neotropical brown stink bug, Euschistus heros (Fabr., 1798), fed with soybean [Glycine max (L.)] Merrill pods. Nymphs were maintained at three different photophases: 10 h, 12 h, and 14 h, with constant temperature of 25 +/- 1 degree C and relative humidity of 65 +/- 5%. With 14 h, approximately ...

The application development in wireless sensor network (WSN) is complicated due to the diverse software and hardware platforms. One way to solve this problem is to apply the embedded Java virtual machine (EJVM) on the WSN nodes. With the EJVM, the users can program the applications by the popular and high-level abstract Java language. However, several challenges exist for applying the EJVM on t...

Um sistema de gerência de bancos de dados heterogêneos (SGBDH) precisa ter a capacidade de integrar novos tipos de sistemas, novas plataformas de hardware e software, novas formas de comunicação sem que seja necessário reestruturar seu projeto e implementação existentes. Sistemas de bancos de dados heterogêneos (SBDHs) têm sido apontados como uma das soluções mais viáveis para a integração de s...

Medical Ethics has many unsung heros and heroines. Here we celebrate one of these and on telling part of her story hope to place modern medical ethics and bioethics in the UK more centrally within its historical and human contex.

The Department of Neurological Surgery at the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital's legacy of patient care, teaching, and research in the neurosciences extends over a period of 50 years. The department's founder was Dr. David Reynolds. The subsequent chairman, Dr. Hubert Rosomoff, formed a solid foundation that helped put the department on the map. Drs. Barth Green and Roberto Heros, ...