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Erratum for Schloss et al., “Support Science by Publishing in Scientific Society Journals”

Scientific societies provide numerous services to the scientific enterprise, including convening meetings, publishing journals, developing scientific programs, advocating for science, promoting education, providing cohesion and direction for the discipline, and more. For most scientific societies, publishing provides revenues that support these important activities. In recent decades, the propo...

Report on Schloss-Dagstuhl Meeting on "Evaluation of Multimedia Information

Differential toxicity and venom gland gene expression in Centruroides vittatus

Variation in venom toxicity and composition exists in many species. In this study, venom potency and venom gland gene expression was evaluated in Centruroides vittatus, size class I-II (immature) and size class IV (adults/penultimate instars) size classes. Venom toxicity was evaluated by probit analysis and returned ED50 values of 50.1 μg/g for class IV compared to 134.2 μg/g for class I-II 24 ...

On StenocoruS vittatuS Fabricius, 1801 (cOleOptera, cerambycidae, cerambycinae)

A forgotten synonymy between Stenocorus vittatus Fabricius, 1801 and Cerambyx globosus Olivier, 1795 (= Xystrocera globosa) is corroborated. Consequently, the former is removed from Alloesia Chevrolat, 1862, and formally excluded from the Brazilian fauna. Key-Words: Alloesia; Brazil; Synonymy; Xystrocera. Head ferruginous. Thorax rounded, shortened, rough, ferruginous, with great dark-blue ring...

Report on the INEX 2003 Workshop , Schloss Dagstuhl , 15 - 17 December 2003

The widespread use of the eXtensible Markup Language (XML), especially the increasing use of XML in scientific data repositories, digital libraries and on the web, brought about an explosion in the development of XML retrieval systems to store and access XML content [BGS03]. These retrieval systems exploit the logical structure of the documents, which is explicitly represented by the XML markup...