Declining predator diversity may drastically affect the biomass and productivity of herbivores and plants. Understanding how changes in predator diversity can propagate through food webs to alter ecosystem function is one of the most challenging ecological research topics today. We studied the effects of predator removal in a simple natural food web in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California ...

Sophora interrupta Bedd, was a common woody perennial herb native to India. Reports suggest that the plant possesses numerous health promoting benefits such as anticancer, antiinflammatory, antimicrobial and antioxidant activities. The plant exhibited several potential in vitro anticancer effects on MCF-7, PC-3, HeLa and HePG-2 cell lines. In vivo assay’s suppressed in mouse models Dalton’s lym...

Eastern Sierra Nevada populations of the willow beetle Chrysomela aeneicollis commonly experience stressfully high and low environmental temperatures that may influence survival and reproduction. Allele frequencies at the enzyme locus phosphoglucose isomerase (PGI) vary across a climatic latitudinal gradient in these populations, with PGI allele 1 being most common in cooler regions and PGI all...

We consider the problem of estimating the distance between any two large data streams in smallspace constraint. This problem is of utmost importance in data intensive monitoring applications where input streams are generated rapidly. These streams need to be processed on the fly and accurately to quickly determine any deviance from nominal behavior. We present a new metric, the Sketch ⋆-metric,...

Die GMA vergab erstmals im Jahr 2006 den GMA-Preis für Junge Lehrende. Dieser wurde vom Leiter des GMAAusschuss für Junge Lehrende, Sören Huwendiek vorgeschlagen und ins Leben gerufen. Sören Huwendiek hat diesen Preis verantwortlich seit Beginn an hervorragend verwaltet, den Begutachtungsprozess organisiert und begleitet und die Preise im Rahmen des Gesellschaftsabends während den GMA-Jahrestag...

ABSTRACT CAREGIVER VIEWS ON MEDICATION TREATMENT FOR PERSONS WITH SCHIZOPHRENIA IN A CULTURAL CONTEXT Tracy Griffith Roberta Sands Ph.D Schizophrenia is a disabling, often persistent psychiatric disorder that poses numerous challenges in its management and consequences. The burden of care for persons with schizophrenia has shifted from hospitals to families, resulting in a significant cost for ...