Spiders constitute one of the most successful clades of terrestrial predators. Their extraordinary diversity, paralleled only by some insects and mites, is often attributed to the use of silk, and, in one of the largest lineages, to stereotyped behaviors for building foraging webs of remarkable biomechanical properties. However, our understanding of higher-level spider relationships is poor and...

Among the hand woven sarees of India, Paithani is famous and has played a significant role in weaving together the socio-cultural fabric of Maharashtra since it is traditionally a part of the trousseau of every Maharashtra bride. The aim of the study was to document the existing weaving traditions of Paithani and explore the possibility of weaving Paithani as a yardage with different product la...

Spiders in the superfamily Araneoidea produce viscous glue from aggregate silk glands. Aggregate glue coats prey-capture threads and hampers the escape of prey from webs, thereby increasing the foraging success of spiders. cDNAs for Aggregate Spider Glue 1 (ASG1) and 2 (ASG2) have been previously described from the golden orb-weaver, Nephila clavipes, and Western black widow, Latrodectus hesper...

Aspect-oriented programming is today mainly promoting the approach of applying aspects statically by means of preprocessors. We do find some work towards applying aspects dynamically but only limited to specific environments and no work so far has been directed toward our domain of interest which is deeply embedded systems characterized by very small memory and power. Also the work undertaken s...

This paper describes a technique for improving separation of concerns at the level of domain modeling. A contribution of this new approach is the construction of support tools that facilitate the elevation of crosscutting modeling concerns to first-class constructs in a type-system. The key idea is the application of a variant of the OMG Object Constraint Language to models that are stored pers...

The view is questioned that 5.00 p.m. on Friday to 8.00 a.m. on Monday constitutes an adequate interval for the recovery of occupationally induced temporary threshold shift. Group mean pure tone thresholds were determined for a group of young weaving shed operatives on a Monday morning and compared with those obtained, from the same group, after a 16-day absence from noise. The 16-day threshold...