Exposure to light precipitates the symptoms of several genetic disorders that affect both skin and internal organs. It is presumed that damage to non-cutaneous organs is initiated indirectly by light, but this is difficult to study in mammals. Zebrafish have an essentially transparent periderm for the first days of development. In a previous large-scale genetic screen we isolated a mutation, dr...

In his paper, "Globalisation, Empire, and the Vampire," Mario Vrbančić opens up the question of the possibility of a dialectical utopian thinking in postmodernism. Following Lacanian psychoanalytic theory, Vrbančić analyses the vampire as the nation looking both at Hardt and Negri's theory of Empire and Žižek psychoanalytically inclined theory of nationalist identification. The vampire always o...

This paper reports on how the abstraction approach of multi-agent systems can be used to represent the complexity inherent in the urban traffic domain, accounting for the importance of modelling travellers’ behaviour and their interaction with intelligent transportation technologies. A key premise in the approach proposed is the identification of what we have coined autonomous decision entities...

Abstract The genus Odara gen. n. is here described and composed exclusively of new species: ori sp. , amazonica caribensis dracula maculatus osaensis peruensis rondoniensis tambopatensis umbabarauma variegata characterized by the dorsal coloration green, humeral angles tooth-like generally with black apices, corium dark brown to yellow veins, parameres spearhead-shaped, sclerotized swelling duc...

This study deals with the allophones of several phonemes pronounced by a voice actor in performing character animation movie. It concerns stylistic analysis phonetic and phonology levels that reinforce performance. The data are taken from utterances spoken Adam Sandler, Count Dracula Hotel Transylvania-2. method is through descriptive qualitative based on approaches. By comparing general Americ...