Establishment of new populations is contingent on overcoming abiotic and biotic barriers. While this applies to all species, these hurdles are at the forefront invasion biology where prediction, prevention, eradication, control strategies depend an understanding processes. Terrestrial Arundina graminifolia epiphytic Dendrobium crumenatum two non-indigenous orchids spreading throughout Puerto Ri...

1. Pulling forces of Chrysolina polita (L.) on glass, perspex and cloth have been recorded and are plotted against body weight. The additional weight of eggs in many of the females is probably the main reason that, in females, pulling forces do. not increase significantly with body weight, whereas those of males do. 2. Pulling forces on glass and perspex are significantly correlated but, in gen...

A survey of Angiostrongylus infections in rats and snails was carried out in the provinces of Ubon Ratchathani, Udon Thani. Kalasin, Chaiyaphum and Khon Kaen in northeast Thailand. Only two Rattus norvegicus (3.8%) and one Bandicota indica (1.4%) out of 151 R. rattus, 52 R. norvegicus and 69 B. indica examined were infected with adult lung worms. All worms recovered were A. cantonensis. Prevale...

Part-of-Speech (POS) tagging is a crucial task in Natural Language Processing (NLP). POS tags may be assigned to tokens in text manually, by trained linguists, or using algorithmic approaches. Particularly, in the case of annotated text corpora, the quantity of textual data makes it unfeasible to rely on manual tagging and automated methods are used extensively. The quality of such methods is o...

BACKGROUND Many plants of the family Moraceae are used in the treatment of infectious diseases. Ficus polita Vahl., an edible plant belonging to this family is used traditionally in case of dyspepsia, infectious diseases, abdominal pains and diarrhea. The present work was designed to assess the antimicrobial activity of the methanol extract from the roots of F. polita (FPR), as well as that of ...

Specimens of Perlidae (Plecoptera) deposited in the Entomological Collection "Padre Jesus S. Moure" of the Universidade Federal do Paraná and additional material recently collected in Paraná and Santa Catarina states, Brazil were studied. Six previously described species were identified, Anacroneuria debilis (Pictet, 1841), A. cathia Froehlich, 2002, A. polita (Burmeister, 1839), A. trimacula J...

Artykuł poświęcony jest książce Pawła Polita na temat filozofii i malarstwa Witkacego, badającej oba te obszary jego twórczości w świetle rozwijanej przezeń koncepcji „jedności osobowości”. Zgłębiając teorię zawartą także utworach literackich, Polit konfrontuje ją z filozoficznymi źródłami myśli, a fenomenologią cielesności Merleau-Ponty’ego oraz refleksją Deleuze’a Derridy dotyczącą – cielesne...

Three malacological surveys were conducted in the Takua Pa District of Phang-Nga Province, southern Thailand, before and after the Indian Ocean Tsunami disaster. Twenty-nine species of fresh- and brackish-water snails were found, in which 10 species of freshwater snails were present, including live Pila polita; 8 species were of medical importance. Two brackish-water snails, Nerita articulata a...