An annotated list of 83 scale insect species (Hemiptera: Sterorrhyncha: Coccoidea) recorded from Saint Lucia is presented, based on data gathered from UK quarantine interceptions, samples collected in an urban coastal habitat in the North West of the Island in 2013, and published records. Thirty-three species (40%) are recorded for the first time for the country, including Dysmicoccus joannesia...

Large-scale communications blackouts, such as those carried out by Egypt and Libya in 2011 and Syria in 2012 and 2013, have motivated a series of projects that aim to enable citizens to communicate even in the face of such heavy-handed censorship efforts. A common theme across these proposals has been the use of wireless mesh networks. We argue that such networks are poorly equipped to serve as...

The sandfly Trichophoromyia auraensis has recently evolved as a proven vector of Leishmania (Viannia) endemic to state of Acre in the north of Brazil. This note is intended to propose a correction in the report of the first occurrence of natural infection of Leishmania (Viannia) in this species. We and the other scientific groups reinforced that Tr. auraensis is a possible vector involved in th...

First-year students have long been a primary focus of academic librarians’ research and assessment efforts. From these studies, and even more particularly from the unempirically based library literature, there emerges a picture of first-year students. These first-year students are extreme examples of their collegiate peers: “lazy, procrastinating, plagiarizing patrons of the glut of information...

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Trichophoromyia ruifreitasi sp. n. is described as a new species of sand fly from the genus Trichophoromyia Barretto. This description is supported with illustrations and photographs that detail the morphological characteristics of male specimens collected in the municipality of Assis Brasil, Acre State, Brazilian Amazon. This species is similar to Trichophoromyia auraensis (Mangabeira), but th...

Lak is a Northeast Caucasian language spoken by over 150,000 people in the central highlands of the Republic of Dagestan in the Russian Federation. It utilizes reduplication in certain durative verb forms, notably imperatives, the present participle (both short and full forms), the present gerund, and the assertive present and conditional forms (Murkelinskij 1971:187; Khajdakov 1962:410-416). T...

Introduction and Background: Radial grabens at Tharsis record crustal extension due to the load [1−3]. However their development and significance beyond 2-D strain estimates are largely unknown. For example, early Viking-based strain models required two separate phases of Tharsis loading to produce the “inner” and “outer” radial grabens [4,5]. In contrast, recent MGS-based stress models for Tha...