BACKGROUND AND AIMS In the last decade, genomic studies using DNA markers have strongly influenced the current phylogeny of angiosperms. Genome size and ploidy level have contributed to this discussion, being considered important characters in biosystematics, ecology and population biology. Despite the recent increase in studies related to genome size evolution and polyploidy incidence, only a ...

In 1996, Scirtothrips perseae Nakahara (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) invaded California avocado orchards and moved pest management practices that relied almost exclusively on biological control to strategies dependent on insecticides to maintain thrips densities below economically damaging levels. By 1998, average losses due to thrips feeding damage in untreated infested groves reduced industry rev...

AUCS/TR9405 Building Agent-Based Systems Ciara Byrne and Peter Edwards Department of Computing Science University of Aberdeen King's College ABERDEEN, AB9 2UE, Scotland, UK. Abstract One major focus of e ort in Distributed Arti cial Intelligence (DAI) research has been the development of software environments which support the construction of systems involving multiple interacting agents. Such ...

A new marine gastrotrich species of the genus Cephalodasys is described from shallow sublittoral coralline sand sampled between Lee Stocking Island and Norman's Pond Cay (Exuma Cays), Bahamas. Cephalodasys interinsularis n. sp. reaches a body length of 471 µm and is characterized by a new combination of characters including six total anterior adhesive tubes and five pairs of ventrolateral adhes...

Abravanel, Florence Ackermann, Mathias Admon, Arie Afonso, Claudio L. Agbandje-McKenna, Mavis Agol, Vadim I. Aguilar, Hector C. Aguilar, Patricia V. Ahn, Byung-Yoon Ahn, Jin-Hyun Ahn, Jinwoo Ahn, Kwangseog Akari, Hirofumi Alam, S. Munir Albert, Jan Albin, John S. Alcami, Antonio Alcami, José Aldovini, Anna Al-Harthi, Lena Alkhatib, Ghalib Almazan, Fernando Alonso, Sylvie Altan-Bonnet, Nihal Alt...

From 22–24 September 2010 the Second Meeting of the Federation of European Societies of Neuropsychology was held at the Royal Tropical Institute in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The aim of the conference was to provide a meeting place for neuropsychologists, clinicians as well as researchers, from all over Europe. About 450 participants from 17 European countries gathered to present their researc...

This study aims to develop a model for the user acceptance for implementing the information security standard (i.e. ISO 27001) in Turkish public organizations. The results of the surveys performed in Turkey reveal that the legislation on information security public which organizations have to obey is significantly related with the user acceptance during ISO 27001 implementation process. The fun...

Based on ISO 27001 for Information Security Management Systems, this paper introduces a newly developed security analysis approach, suitable for technical security analyses in general. This approach is used for a security analysis of several components and processes of the Health Care Telematics in Germany. Besides the results of the analysis, basics for further analysis and verification activi...

Scyphomedusae undergo a predictable ontogenetic transition from a conserved, universal larval form to a diverse array of adult morphologies. This transition entails a change in bell morphology from a highly discontinuous ephyral form, with deep clefts separating eight discrete lappets, to a continuous solid umbrella-like adult form. We used a combination of kinematic, modeling, and flow visuali...

1. Formoterol and salmeterol are the first members of a new generation of long-acting beta(2)-adrenoceptor agonists for inhalation. The discovery of the long effect duration of formoterol was made by chance, while the development of salmeterol appeared to follow a purposeful research strategy. 2. Preclinical evaluation predictive of the clinical duration of effect of long-acting bronchodilators...