James Van Gundia Neel

New distribution records for the critically endangered frog Indirana gundia (Dubois, 1986) from Kerala part of Western Ghats, India

BACKGROUND Indirana gundia is one of the critically endangered frog species of Western Ghats, India, and known only from the type locality (Gundya in Karnataka State, India) at an elevation of 200 m Mean Sea Level. We provide data on the geographical distribution of this species using molecular tools. NEW INFORMATION Our results expand the geographical distribution range of this species about...

Simulation of an Implementation and Evaluation of the Layered Radio Architecture

A nomenclature for signal regulatory protein family members.

“An Unusual and Fast Disappearing Opportunity”: Infectious Disease, Indigenous Populations, and New Biomedical Knowledge in Amazonia, 1960–1970

In the twentieth century, biomedical researchers believed the study of Indigenous Amazonians could inform global histories of human biological diversity. This paper examines the similarities and differences of two approaches to this mid-century biomedical research, comparing the work of virologist and epidemiologist Francis Black with human geneticists James V. Neel and Francisco Salzano. While...

Making Sense of Microposts (#Microposts2016) Named Entity rEcognition and Linking (NEEL) Challenge

This paper describes the (#Microposts2016) Named Entity rEcognition and Linking (NEEL) Challenge, held as a track of the Making Sense of Microposts Workshop co-located with the World Wide Web conference (WWW’2016). The challenge task comprised automatic linking and classification of entities appearing in different event streams of English tweets. Participants were invited to develop novel strat...