The ability to create effective multi-agent organizations is key to the development of larger, more diverse multi-agent systems. In this article we present KBORG: a fully automated, knowledge-based organization designer for multi-agent systems. Organization design is the process that accepts organizational goals, environmental expectations, performance requirements, role characterizations, and ...

UNLABELLED Previous findings from our group indicate that accumbal glycine receptors (GlyRs) are involved in mediating the dopamine (DA) activating effects of ethanol (EtOH), and that administration of glycine locally into the nucleus accumbens (nAc) reduces EtOH consumption in EtOH high-preferring rats. AIMS The present study examines the influence of a systemically administered glycine reup...

Sea lice infestations have become a major health problem for farmed salmonids throughout the world including Chile. In southern Chile, 6 geographical areas, divided into 22 geographical zones with a total of 127 salmon farming centers and 1519 sea pens, were regularly sampled from December 1999 to April 2002. A linear mixed-effects model (LME) approach was used to describe the infestations of a...

The cloning and sequencing of the small subunit (SSU) ribosomal DNA gene from Kudoa rosenbuschi (myxosporean species associated with post-mortem myoliquefaction process in the Argentinean hake Merluccius hubbsi) is reported. The SSU rDNA was found to contain 1740 bp with a single polymorphic site with either a C or T at position 221. The sequence data obtained in this study and those known sequ...

The synthesis of ligand LTH8, based on a thiophene framework containing two bis(aminomethyldiphosphonate) functions in ortho position to the central sulfur atom, is described, together with the characterization of the intermediate compounds. The physico-chemical properties of the ligand were first studied by means of potentiometry and UV-Vis absorption spectrophotometric titrations to determine...

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Org NC 45, a new non-depolarizing neuromuscular blocking drug, was evaluated in 200 adult patients. The drug was administered in doses of 0.1, 0.15 or 0.2 mg kg-1. Intubation could be satisfactorily carried out at around 90 s in 90% of patients. The duration of clinical relaxation varied from 23 min with 0.1 mg kg-1 and neuroleptanaesthesia to 71 min with 0.2 mg kg-1 and anaesthesia with haloth...

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A computer program is presented that calculates thicknesses and resistivities of a layered earth from three different variations of Schlumberger arrangements: (1) The usual Schlumberger method with 4 electrodes at the surface. (2) Lake bottom arrangement: 4 electrodes at the bottom of waters like lakes, rivers or the sea. (3) Two potential electrodes at the same depth in the ground and two elec...