The controversial provisions in the European Union’s Database Directive have created considerable uncertainty for commercial producers of databases, while recent case law has emasculated much of the Directive. However, researchers and academics must still work in a restrictive copyright environment within Europe. This paper reviews the Directive in the light of two recent UK reports that sugges...

1 Departamento de Medicina Social, Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo. Av. Bandeirantes 3900/2°, Monte Alegre. 14049-900 Ribeirao Preto SP. [email protected] 2 Institute for Population and Social Research, Mahidol University, Thailand. 3 Faculdades Integradas do Brasil, UniBrasil. 4 Departamento Materno-Infantil, Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão Preto, Universi...

A new, white Leucoagaricus species is described from central California. Leucoagaricus amanitoides is characterized by a volvate, short and bulbous stipe, long narrowly clavate cystidia and ellipsoid spores without a germ pore.

This research is the first to quantify complex PAH mixtures in NIST SRMs using comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography coupled to time-of-flight mass spectrometry (GC×GC/ToF-MS), with and without extract cleanup, and reports previously unidentified PAH congeners in the NIST SRMs. We tested a novel, high orthogonality GC column combination (LC-50×NSP-35), as well as with a commonly used...

A Study of 〈v2〉 with NeXSPheRIO R. P. G. Andrade∗, Y. Hama∗, F. Grassi∗, O. Socolowski Jr.†, and T. Kodama‡ ∗Instituto de Fı́sica, Universidade de São Paulo, C.P. 66318, 05315-970, São Paulo-SP, Brazil †CTA/ITA, Praça Marechal Eduardo Gomes 50, CEP 12228-900, São José dos Campos-SP, Brazil ‡Instituto de Fı́sica, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, C.P. 68528, 21945-970, Rio de Janeiro-RJ, Brazil