Article 60.8 of the International Code Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants (Turland & al. in Regnum Veg. 159. 2018) explains terminations specific infraspecific epithets derived from personal names; particular, grammatical gender-determined applied depending on gender a person. However, mentioned this refer only to persons either male or female gender. I consider such an approach as not c...

Since I am not a clinician I cannot address myself to the clinical syndrome, ESPAS (The Endocrine Society Presidential Address Syndrome), so eloquently described by my predecessor. Since I am not a comedian I cannot spontaneously or even with considerable forethought deliver clever "one-liners" to titillate you after a pleasant evening of camaraderie. Of course I do not feel the constraint of a...

In 2014, glasshouse-grown wasabi (Eutrema japonica) grown in a compost based media displayed symptoms of poor growth and wilting. Visual assessment the roots showed that 25% symptomatic plants sampled had raised black lesions on affecting between 5 20% total root area. To isolate causal agent, affected material (approximately mm3) was surface disinfested sodium hypochlorite (2%) for 30 s, rinse...

requirements—gathered by the previous con-sultancy—that had outlived their build-by date. On the other side (the hard place), was a client that, acknowledging that it had switched horses midstream, was willing to scale back on functionality but refused to budge on delivery date. In short, Thought-Works found itself with a mere two months to both turn the project around and deliver a business-re...

L egislative scholars have a history of stepping back occasionally to examine the development and state of the subdiscipline ~Budge 1973; Gamm and Huber 2002; Loewenberg, Patterson, and Jewell 1985; Mezey 1993; Morris-Jones 1983; Pasquino 1973; Patterson 1989!. Many of these existing reviews, although valuable, are predominantly of a qualitative and subjective nature and are, in most cases, now...

While Rice may not have lost as much as of its investments as other universi t ies, its endowment still took a hit dur ing the most recent recession. For fiscal year 2009, Rice incurred an 18.2-percent loss on the e n d o w m e n t ' s investment returns, worth about $838 million. The university also spent $215 million of the endowment , $55 million of which was recouped in endowment gifts, acc...

On Sunday, Jeremy Hunt gave an unconvincing appearance on the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show. With a further strike by junior doctors planned forWednesday 10 February, the host doggedly questioned the health secretary. Marr challenged Hunt’s repeated claims that excess deaths associated with weekend admission were preventable and that medical understaffing was the clear cause. Even when confronted with...

The sacrum represents a key anatomical element for understanding Dinosauria, beginning with the first use of the taxon name in 1842. A five-vertebra sacrum was originally considered diagnostic of dinosaurs, and variation in the number of sacral vertebrae has been used to diagnose smaller groups of dinosaurs. Despite its centrality to early definitions of Dinosauria, utility for diagnosing small...