The dispersal characteristics of a biological control agent can have direct implications on the ability of that agent to control populations of a target host. Tetrastichus planipennisi Yang (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) is a parasitic wasp native to eastern Asia that has been introduced into the United States as part of a classical biological control program against the emerald ash borer Agrilus pl...

While investigating the parasites of several marine fishes from the Western Atlantic, the Southern Gulf of Mexico and Central America (Panama), the following monogenoidean species from the gills of gerreid fishes (Gerreidae) were found: Diplec-tanum gatunense sp. n. (Diplectanidae) and Octouncuhaptor eugerrei gen. et sp. n. (Dactylogyridae) in Eugerres brasilianus (Cuvier) from Gatun Lake in th...

BACKGROUND This study analyses the prevalence and the clinical and therapeutic data on asthma collected in consultations as part of Alergológica-2005. MATERIAL AND METHODS A cross-sectional, descriptive, observational, epidemiologic study was carried out. RESULTS The prevalence of asthma was 28%, lower than the 35% prevalence observed in the Alergológica-2002 study. The average age of the p...

The GeneNet system is designed for collection and analysis of the data on gene and metabolic networks, signal transduction pathways and kinetic characteristics of elementary processes. In the past 2 years, the GeneNet structure was considerably improved: (i) the current version of the database is now implemented using ORACLE9i; (ii) the capacities to describe the structure of the protein comple...

The current status of the field over the past several years was summarized in the 2005 Official Report of the Registry of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT) (1). The overall level of activity reported in 2003 was close to that of 2002, including 931 bilateraland 772 singlelung transplantations, and 74 heart–lung transplantations. The number of bilateral procedu...

Under field conditions, species displacements have occurred in different directions between the same invasive species of leafminers (Diptera: Agromyzidae). Liriomyza sativae (Blanchard) was displaced by L. trifolii (Burgess) in the western United States, with evidence suggesting that lower insecticide susceptibility of L. trifolii is a factor. However, in Japan, the opposite has occurred, as L....

The Liber uricrisiarum in Wellcome MS 225 (hereafter, MS 225), a uroscopic treatise in Middle English that cites the De urinis by Isaac Judaeus as its principal source, ' exemplifies the sort of vernacular medical literature produced in abundance in late fourteenthand early fifteenth-century England that relies heavily on learned medical literature for its content.' Especially striking in the L...

There are various IT frameworks and best practices supporting Information Systems. Each has its own strenghts but none of them satisfies all of the IS requirements independently. In this paper we are studying the possibilities of pooling of the most used frameworks: ITIL, Cobit, PMbok, CMMI, ISO 27001, Val IT and eTOM. The result of this paper is meant to present a Unified Maturity Model combin...

The estimated number of static web pages in Oct 2005 was over 20.3 billion, which was determined by multiplying the average number of pages per web server based on the results of three previous studies, 200 pages, by the estimated number of web servers on the Internet, 101.4 million. However, based on the analysis of 8.5 billion web pages that we crawled by Oct. 2005, we estimate the total numb...