The South American species of the New World genus Bidessonotus Régimbart, 1895 are reviewed with descriptions of seven new species. This brings the total number of valid Bidessonotus species to 37, making it the largest Bidessini genus in the New World. The new species are Bidessonotus annaesp. n. (Venezuela), Bidessonotus josiahisp. n. (Venezuela), Bidessonotus palecephalussp. n. (Venezuela), ...

1 Coordination of Coproparasitology, 2 Direction of Biological Sciences, 3 Coordination of Statistics, 4 Direction of Population Studies, 5 General Direction of Research, Foundation Center for Studies on Growth and Development of the Venezuelan Population (FUNDACREDESA), Ministerio del Poder Popular para las Comunas y Protección Social, Caracas, Venezuela 6 Department of Parasitology, Faculty o...

We comment on recently proposed dissipative inflationary models. It is shown that the strength of the inflationary expansion is related to a specific combination of thermodynamic variables which is known to measure the instability of self–gravitating dissipative systems. Also at UCV, Caracas, Venezuela; E-mail address: [email protected] On leave from Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caraca...

We comment further on the behaviour of a heat conducting fluid when a characteristic parameter of the system approaches a critical value ∗On leave from Departamento de F́ısica, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela and Centro de Astrof́ısica Teórica (C.A.T.), Mérida, Venezuela.

1Dpto. d’Arquitectura de Computadors, Universitat Politècnica de Cataluña, Barcelona, Spain 2Dpto. de Física, Ingeniería de Sistemes y Teoría de la Señal, E-03080 Alicante, Spain 3Instituto Universitario de Física aplicada a las Ciencias y las Tecnologías, Universidad de Alicante, E-03080 Alicante, Spain 4Escola Tècnica Superior d’Enginyeria de Telecomunicació de Barcelona, Universitat Politècn...

1 Parasitology Lab, Section for Microbiology, Immunology, and Parasitology, Department of Food Safety and Infection Biology, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Adamstuen-Campus, Oslo, Norway, 2 Department of Virology, Parasitology and Immunology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium, 3 Emerging Pathogens Institute and Department of Animal Sciences, University of ...

1 Chief, Chagas Disease National Program, Ministry of Health, Maracay, Aragua, Venezuela 2 Program in International Medicine, Universidad de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain 3 Pediatrics Service, 4 Infectious Diseases Service, 5 Pediatric Cardiology Service, Centro Clínico San Cristóbal, San Cristóbal, Táchira, Venezuela 6 Hematology Service, 7 Pathology Service, Hospital Central de San Cristóbal, S...

A revision of Leucotrichia (Trichoptera, Hydroptilidae) is provided, including a generic diagnosis, illustrations, a key, and descriptions of males. A total of 43 species are treated, 13 described as new: Leucotrichiaangelinae sp. n. (Venezuela), Leucotrichiadenticulata sp. n. (Mexico), Leucotrichiadianeae sp. n (Costa Rica), Leucotrichiafulminea sp. n. (Ecuador), Leucotrichiahispida sp. n. (Co...

I. Bonalde,1,* H. Kim,2 R. Prozorov,2 C. Rojas,3 P. Rogl,4 and E. Bauer4 1Centro de Fı́sica, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Cientı́ficas, Apartado 20632, Caracas 1020-A, Venezuela 2Ames Laboratory and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University, Iowa 50011, USA 3Departamento de Fı́sica, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Apartado 47586, Caracas 1041-A, ...

Venezuela had the highest number of human malaria cases in Latin American before 1936. During 1891–1920,malaria was endemic to >600,000 km2 of this country; malaria death rates led to major population decreases during 1891–1920. No pathogen, including the influenza virus that caused the 1918 pandemic, caused more deaths than malaria during 1905–1945. Early reports of malaria eradication in Vene...