A review is given on the current status and selected results from large VLBI surveys of compact extragalactic radio sources made between 13 cm and 3 mm wavelengths and covering the entire sky. More than 4200 objects are observed and imaged with dynamic ranges from a hundred to several thousand at (sub)parsec scales. Implications to the VSOP-2 project are discussed.

Towards integrated control of varroa: effect of variation in hygienic behaviour among honey bee colonies on mite population increase and deformed wing virus incidence Hasan M Al Toufailia , Esmaeil Amiri, Luciano Scandian, Per Kryger, Francis L W Ratnieks Laboratory of Apiculture and Social Insects, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Falmer, BN1 9QG, UK. Department of Agroecology, Å...

1 Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Dep. de Engenharia Electrotécnica, Quinta de Prados, 5000–911 Vila Real, Portugal, {epires,oliveira}@utad.pt, http://www.utad.pt/ ̃epires http://www.utad.pt/ ̃oliveira 2 Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Dep. de Engenharia Electrotécnica, Rua Dr. António Bernadino de Almeida, 4200-072 Porto, Portugal [email protected], http://www.dee.isep....

This work proposes a hybrid genetic algorithm to address the Unit Commitment (UC) problem. In the UC problem, the goal is to schedule a subset of a given group of electrical power generating units and also to determine their production output in order to meet energy demands at minimum cost. In addition, the solution must satisfy a set of technological and operational constraints. The algorithm ...

From Vanderbilt Sports Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville (K.P.S.); and the Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine at Barnes–Jewish Hospital, St. Louis (R.W.W.). Address reprint requests to Dr. Spindler at Vanderbilt Sports Medicine, 4200 Medical Center E., South Tower, 1215 21st Ave. S., Nashville, TN 37232-8774, or at kurt.spindler@ v...

Departamento de Informática Universidad Nacional de Santiago del Estero Avenida Belgrano (S) 1912 4200 Santiago del Estero Argentina [email protected] Facultad de Informática Universidad Politécnica de Madrid Campus de Montegancedo 28660 Boadilla del Monte Spain {angelica, xavier, jlmate}@fi.upm.es Software Engineering Institute Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890 USA mlopez@s...

Recent observations have revealed a class of unusually HI-rich early-type galaxies. By combining observations of their morphology, stellar populations and neutral hydrogen we aim to understand how these galaxies fit into the hierarchical formation paradigm. Here we present the result of our radio and optical observations of a test case galaxy, the E/S0 IC 4200.

aAbel Salazar Institute for Biomedical Sciences (ICBAS), University of Porto, Largo Prof. Abel Salazar 2, 4099-003 Porto, Portugal. bLEPAE, Chemical Engineering Department, Engineering Faculty, University of Porto, Rua Dr. Roberto Frias s/n, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal. cVeterinary Sciences Department, CECAV, University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro, Quinta de Prados 5001-801 Vila Real, Portugal.

1 IPC – Institute for Polymers and Composits, Dept. of Polymer Engineering, University of Minho, Campus de Azurém, 4800-058 Guimarães, Portugal [email protected] 2 Dept. of Physics, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, R. S. Tome, 4200 Porto, Portugal [email protected] 3 CSICentre for Intelligent Systems, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Algarve, Faro, Portugal cmfonseca@...

Ana Sofia Correia1,2, António J. Madureira3, Alexandra Gonçalves1,2*, Pedro Bernardo Almeida1,2, and Vı́tor Araújo1 Cardiology Department, Centro Hospitalar de São João, Alameda Prof. Hernâni Monteiro, 4200-319 Porto, Portugal; Cardiology Department, University of Porto Medical School, Porto, Portugal; and Radiology Department, Centro Hospitalar de São João, Porto, Portugal * Corresponding autho...