The design and development of interactlve multimedia applications is a complex and challenging process which is still evolving as the hardware, software, creative talent, production services, publishers, and target markets all evolve at the same time. Compared with other media, such as print, film, radio, or N, interactive multimedia, as a medium that combines many media and makes use of them i...

Historically, pregnant women have been excluded from the majority of drug and vaccine trials, a practice that has criticized widely by scientific community1-3. As result, are routinely denied beneficial, sometimes potentially life-saving, therapeutic preventive measures or receive them well after their non-pregnant peers. Data about safety efficacy in pregnancy subsequently accumulate adventiti...

—We report association between female blood parasite prevalence (percentage of infected birds) just after egg laying and reproductive success in two successive breeding seasons, in a breeding population of Pied Flycatcher Ficedula hypoleuca in central Spain. Females infected with Trypanosoma spp. had a higher probability of deserting their clutches during the incubation period than noninfected ...