CORNELIS ANDRIES BACKER 1874 ‐ 1963

Dedication to Dr Cornelis Bas

Kees Bas, born in Rotterdam, graduated in Biology at Leiden University in 1954, and started his life-long career at the National Herbarium of the Netherlands, University Leiden branch (then Rijksherbarium/Hortus Botanicus) in 1953 as curator for the fungi, in particular of the Agaricales. In the first period of his career he played a leading role, together with his colleague Rudi Maas Geesteran...

Grammar is both categorical and gradient Andries

In this paper, I discuss the results of word-likeness experiments conducted with speakers with Hebrew and English. The results of the experiments show that language users use their grammar in a categorical and a gradient manner. In word-likeness rating tasks, subjects make the categorical distinction between grammatical and ungrammatical – they assign all grammatical forms equally high ratings ...

Dmd052597 1867..1874

The primary objective of this study was to determine the in vivo absorption properties of valacyclovir, including the potential for saturable proton-coupled oligopeptide transporter 1 (PepT1)-mediated intestinal uptake, after escalating oral doses of prodrug within the clinical dose range. A secondary aim was to characterize the role of PepT1 on the tissue distribution of its active metabolite,...

Op-cbio150045 1872..1874

Summary: The association of organisms to their environments is a key issue in exploring biodiversity patterns. This knowledge has traditionally been scattered, but textual descriptions of taxa and their habitats are now being consolidated in centralized resources. However, structured annotations are needed to facilitate large-scale analyses. Therefore, we developed ENVIRONMENTS, a fast dictiona...

Edward Clark Streeter, 1874-1947