During the Mesozoic Era there flourished a group of species of saltatorial Orthoptera of the suborder Ensifera that are included in the fBmily Haglidae, of which fossils representing more than 30 genera are known. T h e Haglidae comprise the subfamilies Elaglinae, Isfaropterinae, Cyrtophyllitinae, and Prophalangopsinae. During the upper Jurassic, according to Sharov (1971), species of the last-...

The protection of privacy of individual-level information in genome-wide association study (GWAS) databases has been a major concern of researchers following the publication of "an attack" on GWAS data by Homer et al. (2008). Traditional statistical methods for confidentiality and privacy protection of statistical databases do not scale well to deal with GWAS data, especially in terms of guaran...

We establish connections between the maximum likelihood degree (ML-degree) for linear concentration models, algebraic of semidefinite programming (SDP), and Schubert calculus complete quadrics. prove a conjecture by Sturmfels Uhler on polynomiality ML-degree. also Nie, Ranestad providing an explicit formula SDP. The interactions three fields shed new light asymptotic behaviour enumerative invar...

The fauna of semiaquatic bugs (Insecta: Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Gerromorpha) from Panama has been explored mainly between the end 19th century and first half 20th century, with few reports since then, whereas that Colombia intensively studied in last decade. Here, we describe Rhagovelia joceliae Rodrigues & Moreira, sp. nov. (Veliidae: Rhagoveliinae), Panama. Additionally, new records these...

The aggregation and mating behavior of the stink bug, Euschistus conspersus Uhler (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) was investigated in a series of field and laboratory experiments. Marking of E. conspersus mating in aggregations in the field demonstrated that both sexes mate multiple times within aggregations on successive nights and with different partners, although ≈ 20% of the individuals of both s...