A new broom?

Ockham's broom: A new series

Although it is increasingly difficult to gauge what people can be expected to know, it is probably safe to assume that most readers are familiar with Ockham's razor – roughly, the principle whereby gratuitous suppositions are shaved from the interpretation of facts – enunciated by a Franciscan monk, William of Ockham, in the fourteenth century. Ockham's broom is a somewhat more recent conceit, ...

John Broom

'Candidatus Phytoplasma brasiliense', a new phytoplasma taxon associated with hibiscus witches' broom disease.

Hibiscus rosa-sinensis is a valuable ornamental species widely planted in Brazil. Many plants are affected by witches' broom disease, which is characterized by excessive axillary branching, abnormally small leaves, and deformed flowers, symptoms that are characteristic of diseases attributed to phytoplasmas. A phytoplasma was detected in diseased Hibiscus by amplification of rRNA operon sequenc...

674 Broom 13 Welfare invertebrates

Pre-publication copy 1 Broom, D.M. 2013. The welfare of invertebrate animals such as insects, spiders, 2 snails and worms. In Animal Suffering: From Science to Law, International 3 Symposium, ed. Kemp, T. A. van der and Lachance, M., 135-152. Paris: Éditions 4 Yvon Blais. 5 THE WELFARE OF INVERTEBRATE ANIMALS SUCH AS INSECTS, 6 SPIDERS, SNAILS AND WORMS 7 8 D. M. Broom 9 10 ABSTRACT 11 The conc...

On Eccentric Graphs of Broom Graphs

On Eccentric Graphs of Broom Graphs S. Sriram, D. Ranganayakulu, Ibrahim Venkat 3 and K.G. Subramanian Research Scholar, Manonmaniam Sundaranar University Valliammai Engineering College, SRM Nagar, Kattankulathur 603 203 Email: [email protected] Department of Mathematics, S.I.V.E.T College, Gowrivakkam, Chennai 600 073 Email: [email protected] School of Computer Science, Universiti Sain...