The braconid genus Napo was established by Shaw (2012) for a single species Napo townsendi Shaw, 2012 from Napo Province, Ecuador. However, the genus name Napo is preoccupied and was initially introduced by Linnavuori & DeLong (1976) for a deltocephalinae leafhopper genus with Napo brazosellus Linnavuori & DeLong, 1976 as the type species (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae). Thus, the genus Napo Shaw, 20...

Olkin and Shaw (1995) discussed statistical methods for meta-analysis and its applications in horticultural science. They presented methods for combining tests of significance as well as methods for comparing differences between treatments. For the latter, the standardized difference of two normal means is the effect size of interest and Olkin and Shaw (1995) presented the statistical meta-anal...

This work is motivated by the paper [LP]. In this paper, the authors consider the scaling limits of three discrete aggregation models with multiple sources the internal DLA (diffusion-limited aggregation), the rotor-router, and the divisible sandpile model. They show that for all three models, the scaling limit is the same, and it is a solution of the Hele-Shaw injection problem with multiple s...

1866 he used to get up every morning at six in order to get from Bath to his classes in Bristol punctually. In 1869 he went to Edinburgh to complete his course, and qualified there in 1872. He was House Physician at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, a Fellow of the Edinburgh Botanical Society and President of the Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh. In 1875 he returned to Clifton and two years late...

one of the measures taken by the 1979 revolutionary government of iran was to denounce the mixed public-private ownership of the banking system of the pre-revolutionary era and implement a full scale banking nationalization and merging scheme. since then the banking system has been operating under close supervision and scrutiny of the government - exercising its power to impose a variety of res...