Do Agrochemical-Free Paddy Fields Serve as Refuge Habitats for Odonata?

Who do I serve?

COMMENTARY This talk is inspired by the story of Matthew about whom you will hear in a few moments. This ceremony acknowledges a transition in your medical education: A rite of passage from the study of basic medical science in classrooms to new encounters with patients at bedsides and in clinics. On choosing and being chosen You are an exceptional group of women and men. In the style of praise...

Do In-Work Tax Credits Serve as a Safety Net?

The cash and near cash safety net in the U.S. has undergone a dramatic transformation in the past fifteen years. Federal welfare reform has led to the “elimination of welfare as we know it” and several tax reforms have substantially increased the role of “in-work”' assistance. In 2010, we spent more than 5 dollars on the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) for every dollar spent on cash benefits th...

Do intersections serve as basic features in visual search?

The status of 'intersection' as a basic feature in visual search tasks has been controversial. Under some circumstances, a target possessing this attribute (eg a plus) 'pops out' of a display of distractors that lack the attribute (eg Ls). However, those cases may be artifacts of other features such as relative size or number of line terminators. We report two sets of experiments with stimuli i...

How Long Do They Serve?

Pseudomonas pseudomallei: danger in the paddy fields.

'Whitmore's diScSlSe', 'morphia injector'8 septi-caemia', 'the great mimicker' and 'Vietnamese time-bomb' are some of the more colourful names which have been given to melioidosis since it was lirst described inBurma by WHITMORE & KRISHNASWAMI (1912). Pzz&monus pseudmllei has caused outbreaks of infection amongst animals in such diverse settings as a Hong Kong dolphinarium and zoos in Paris (GA...