Thirteen species of basal Brachycera (11 described as new) are reported, belonging to nine families and three infraorders. They are preserved in amber from the Early Cretaceous (Neocomian) of Lebanon, Albian of northern Spain, upper Albian to lower Cenomanian of northern Myanmar, and Late Cretaceous of New Jersey USA (Turonian) and Alberta, Canada (Campanian). Taxa are as follows, with signific...

The Amber machine is a stack machine designed as an intermediate language for compiling higher-order languages. The current version is specialized for the Amber language. The machine supports a set of basic and structured data types, functional closures, signals, bitmap graphics, persistent objects and meta-level execution. The latter is needed as the Amber compiler is entirely written in Amber...

We have compared molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of a β-hairpin forming peptide derived from the protein Nrf2 with 10 biomolecular force fields using trajectories of at least 1 μs. The total simulation time was 37.2 μs. Previous studies have shown that different force fields, water models, simulation methods, and parameters can affect simulation outcomes. The MD simulations were done in exp...

A recent paper described a new machine translation evaluation metric, AMBER. This paper describes two changes to AMBER. The first one is incorporation of a new ordering penalty; the second one is the use of the downhill simplex algorithm to tune the weights for the components of AMBER. We tested the impact of the two changes, using data from the WMT metrics task. Each of the changes by itself i...

This How To Note describes techniques for troubleshooting slow network performance. When troubleshooting a network slow down problem, it is very important to keep in mind that hardware-based forwarding in switches never slows down it continues to operate at wire speed on all ports all the time. Therefore, the cause of slow network performance is never going to be something that is causing a slo...

An Amber MPH-Cerelose medium was devised on which the unidentified basidiomycete B 191039 produced high titers of alcohol oxidase in shake cultures. Another, fully synthetic medium was developed on which the production was nearly as good, but very slow. No cofactors were required to produce this flavine adenine dinucleotide-containing enzyme. The B 191039 organism underwent frequent mutations. ...

A new Turonian amber occurrence, representing the oldest in situ amber locality in Australia and the southern-most locality in Gondwana, has recently been discovered in the Otway Basin of Victoria. The amber was collected from petroleum cores and many pieces contain a range of inclusions that can provide information on the depositional history of the resin. To date, one species of fern spore (C...

This study has critically examined different aspects of Counter-Cyclical Payments (CCPs) in the context of commitment of United State of America (US) under the Agreement on Agriculture (AoA) and future obligations under recent Doha Round Negotiations. The study has highlighted the shortcomings in domestic support notifications of US to WTO and their impact on product-specific support to the agr...

The Volunteer Management ReportVolume 28, Issue 10 p. 2-2 Prevent and Diminish Burnout Six Tips for Decreasing Rates Amber Erickson, EricksonSearch more papers by this author First published: 09 September 2023 https://doi.org/10.1002/vmr.32161Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare text full-text accessPlease re...