An infection of pearl oysters, Pinctada maxima, attributed to a Haplosporidium sp. by Hine and Thorne (1998) has been detected on 3 occasions and is considered to represent a serious concern to the pearling industry in Australia. The spore ornamentation of the parasite was determined by scanning electron microscopy and transmission electron microscopy. Spores of the parasite were pleomorphic, o...

Colorful plumage plays a prominent role in the evolution of birds, influencing communication (sexual/social selection), and crypsis (natural selection). Comparative studies have focused primarily on these selective pressures, but the mechanisms underlying color production can also be important by constraining the color gamut upon which selection acts. Iridescence is particularly interesting to ...

This work uses a custom-built digital bagpipe chanter interface to assist in the process of learning the Great Highland Bagpipe (GHB). In this paper, a new algorithm is presented for the automatic recognition and evaluation of the various ornamentation techniques that are a central aspect of traditional Highland bagpipe music. The algorithm is evaluated alongside a previously published approach...

The convergence of communications and information technology within education, as well as more widely, means that concepts developed within ITS & AIED are now applicable to a wider range of wired, and more interestingly 'wireless', technologies. Interactive TV, supported by broadband broadcasting, offers interesting possibilities for education. The use of TV (and radio) in education has a long ...

We survey the evaluation methodology adopted in Information Extraction (IE), as defined in the MUC conferences and in later independent efforts applying machine learning to IE. We point out a number of problematic issues that may hamper the comparison between results obtained by different researchers. Some of them are common to other NLP tasks: e.g., the difficulty of exactly identifying the ef...

The present study focused on the examination of seed and pollen morphology nine native Chinese species genus Sorbus L. using Light Microscope (LM) Scanning Electron (SEM). crucial features investigated for seeds include color, shape, epidermal cell size, coat ornamentation. On other hand, grains are analyzed based quantitative traits as well following traits: polar equatorial view, apertures ex...