PLoS Biology | http://biology.plosjournals.org This important book relates much the most optimistic treatise on conservation that I have ever read: many would say naively optimistic. I should say from the outset that I genuinely fear that Michael Rosenzweig’s theories and examples are less broadly applicable than he argues. And yet I want to believe that he is right. If he is right, the conserv...

In 1946 and 1948, three very important papers by Albert Rose [J. Soc. Motion Pict. Eng. 47, 273 (1946); J. Opt. Soc. Am. 38, 196 (1948); L. Marton, ed. (Academic, New York, 1948)] were published on the role that photon fluctuations have in setting fundamental performance limits for both human vision and electronic imaging systems. The papers were important because Rose demonstrated that the per...

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Empirical data and previous research have shown that capitalization rates vary across different MSA markets as well as between different product types. The cause of these variations is not fully understood however. Theory would suggest that the cause of variation should be income growth expectations, or risk variation. Surprisingly, ex-post data comparing income growth and cap rates shows almos...

We present here the first complete Squash leaf curl China virus (SLCCV) genomic segment DNA-A sequence from East Timor. It was isolated from a pumpkin plant. When compared with 15 complete SLCCV DNA-A genome sequences from other world regions, it most resembled the Malaysian isolate MC1 sequence.