Although peripheral devices come out at a frantic pace and require fast releases of drivers, little progress has been made to improve the development of drivers. Too often, this development consists of decoding hardware intricacies, based on inaccurate documentation. Then, assembly-level operations need to be used to interact with the device. These low-level operations reduce the readability of...

Contagious cancers that pass between individuals as an infectious cell line are highly unusual pathogens. Devil facial tumor disease (DFTD) is one such contagious cancer that emerged 16 y ago and is driving the Tasmanian devil to extinction. As both a pathogen and an allograft, DFTD cells should be rejected by the host-immune response, yet DFTD causes 100% mortality among infected devils with n...

The last known Tasmanian tiger (Thylacinus cynocephalus)-aka the thylacine-died in 1936. Because its natural behavior was never scientifically documented, we are left to infer aspects of its behavior from museum specimens and historical recollections of bushmen. Recent advances in brain imaging have made it possible to scan postmortem specimens of a wide range of animals, even more than a decad...

Bluetooth is a short-range ad hoc networking technology, which enables formation of inexpensive personal area networks with low power consumption. Using Bluetooth technology, a small number of closely located devices can be interconnected within a piconet. Building larger ad hoc networks is possible by interconnecting multiple piconets to form a scatternet. As the Bluetooth topology grows from ...

Tasmanian devils (Sarcophilus harrisii) are on the verge of extinction due to a transmissible cancer, devil facial tumour disease (DFTD). This tumour is an allograft that is transmitted between individuals without immune recognition of the tumour cells. The mechanism to explain this lack of immune recognition and acceptance is not well understood. It has been hypothesized that lack of genetic d...

This study analyze the portrayal of mothers who kill children as folk devil. The theory devil by Stanley Cohen and Erving Goffman’s theories on framing are used to determine deviant images that created news using various means framing. in were depicted having inhuman characters, psychological problems, a weak nature for dealing with external thus, they portrayed devils. is based use kinds eleme...

An iconic Australian marsupial is under threat from a disease, which is proving a major challenge for conservationists wishing to ensure the survival of the species, the Tasmanian devil. Hannah Robertson reports on their efforts.

Cichlid fishes are known for their adaptive radiations with prolific speciation, but also for their substantial intraspecific polymorphism and phenotypic plasticity. The Amphilophus citrinellus species complex from lakes of Nicaragua has been studied extensively as an example of trophic and colour polymorphism and possible sympatric speciation. We use the methods of geometric morphometrics to i...