(Eristalis spp.) has been fooling humans for thousands of years (Atkins, 1948). The important question in considering whether it is a true case of Batesian mimicry, however, is whether it fools their predators, which are thought to be birds. Eristalis spp. are not considered to be the best visual mimics of honeybees; other British hoverflies such as Mallota cimbiciformis (Fallén), Criorhina asi...

Apis mellifera L. is considered one of the most important pollinators in nature. Unfortunately, addition to other insect species, honey bee populations are decreasing at an alarming rate, urging researchers investigate causes and stressors that precipitated this decline. This study focuses on chemical found affect populations. We used pollen samples examine variations pesticides, selenium, heav...

Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are a vital link between software components as well as between software and developers. Security APIs deliver crucial functionalities for programmers who see themselves in the increasing need for integrating security services into their software products. The ignorant or incorrect use of Security APIs leads to critical security flaws, as has been revea...

The genus Apis, the honey bee, is represented by nine species and contains three subgenera: Megapis, Micrapis, Apis. Apis within a subgenus can be difficult to distinguish from one another, emphasizing need for versatile diagnostic tool that used identify efficiently accurately. We photographed 8756 wings members of all species. were imaged samples housed at Institute Bee Research in Oberursel,...

This paper investigates the structure and dynamics of the Web 2.0 software ecosystem by analyzing empirical data on web service APIs and mashups. Using network analysis tools to visualize the growth of the ecosystem from December 2005 to 2007, we find that the APIs are organized into three tiers, and that mashups are often formed by combining APIs across tiers. Plotting the cumulative distribut...

Web APIs enjoy significant increase in popularity and usage in the last decade. They have became the core technology for exposing functionalities and data. Nevertheless, due to the lack of semantic Web API descriptions their discovery, sharing, integration, and assessment of their quality and consumption is limited. In this paper, we present the Linked Web APIs dataset, an RDF dataset with sema...

In order to help prioritize future research efforts within the US, risks associated with exposure to human prescription pharmaceutical residues in wastewater were estimated from marketing and pharmacological data. Masses of 371 active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) dispensed in the US in 2004 were estimated from marketing data, and then divided by therapeutic dose rate to normalize for poten...