Three new species of the spider genus Philoponella Mello-Leitão, 1917 are described: Philoponella opelli n. sp. from Brazil and Ecuador, and Philoponella fluviidulcifis n. sp. , and Philoponella duopunctata n. sp. from Brazil. New records for Philoponella vittata (Keyserling, 1881), P. republicana (Simon, 1891), P. fasciata (Mello-Leitão, 1917) and P. divisa Opell, 1979 are provided for Brazil ...

J. J. Flint, B. Hansen, S. Portnoy, C. H. Lee, M. A. King, M. Fey, F. Vincent, P. Vestergaard-Poulsen, and S. J. Blackband Neuroscience, University of Florida, Gainesville, Fl, United States, McKnight Brain Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Fl, United States, Center for Functionally Integrative Neuroscience, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark, Electrical Engineering, University ...

Bovine mastitis is very common in cows of both developed and developing countries. The prevalence of clinical and subclinical mastitis (SCM) varies from region to region. Hence, the present study was carried out to determine the prevalence of mastitis using three diagnostic tests by considering different risk factors like age, lactation, breed, season, quarters, and herd. The results showed tha...

BACKGROUND Lejeunea is a largely epiphytic, subcosmopolitan liverwort genus with a complex taxonomic history. Species circumscriptions and their relationships are subject to controversy; biogeographic history and diversification through time are largely unknown. METHODOLOGY AND RESULTS We employed sequences of two chloroplast regions (trnL-trnF, rbcL) and the nuclear ribosomal ITS region of 3...

Background. Today, management and development of sports brands are not only limited to sports goods, teams and leagues, but also recognized by professional and elite athletes. Objectives. So, the purpose of the present study is to analyze awareness of the components of personal brand image of male and female national team athletes and Taekwondo elite players of Iran. Methods. This study is ap...

In recent decades, democratic countries have signed hundreds of international environmental agreements (IEAs). Most of these are weak and do not include effective enforcement. To study this puzzle, we propose a positive theory of IEAs in which the political incumbents negotiate in the shadow of reelections. We show that incumbents are prone to negotiate treaties that are simultaneously overambi...

Kai Nagel,* Dietrich E. Wolf, Peter Wagner, and Patrice Simon Los Alamos National Laboratory, TSA-DO/SA Mail Stop M997, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545 Theoretische Physik, Gerhard-Mercator-Universität, 47048 Duisburg, Germany Zentrum für Paralleles Rechnen, Universität zu Köln, 50923 Köln, Germany Deutsches Zentrum für Luftund Raumfahrt, Linder Höhe, 51170 Köln, Germany ~Received 18 December 1997!

Received 04 Oct., 2013 Accepted 10 Jan., 2014 (006206) 1 Department of Chemistry, State University of Maringá – UEM, Maringá, PR, Brazil, e-mail: [email protected] 2 Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná – UTFPR, Campus Londrina, Tecnologia de Alimentos, Londrina, PR, Brazil 3 Federal University of Latin American Integration – UNILA, Foz do Iguaçú, PR, Brazil *Corresponding author Evalu...

Guilherme Bicalho Saturnino, ∗ Caio Padoan de Sá Godinho, † Denise Fagundes-Lima, ‡ Alcides Castro e Silva, § and Gerald Weber ¶ Departamento de F́ısica, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto, Ouro Preto, MG, Brazil Departamento de F́ısica, Universidade Federal de de Ouro Preto, Ouro Preto, MG, Brazil

We report on the metagenome of a deep subsurface aquifer in the Tomsk region of Russia, sampled via an oil exploration borehole drilled to a depth of 2.8 km. Methanogenic archaea were present in the water along with members of various bacterial phyla, including Firmicutes, Chloroflexi, Bacteroidetes, Ignavibacteriae, and uncultured candidate divisions.