Syntactic disambiguation frequently requires knowledge of the semantic categories of nouns, especially in languages with free word order. For example, in Spanish the phrases pintó un cuadro un pintor (lit. painted a picture a painter) and pintó un pintor un cuadro (lit. painted a painter a picture) mean the same: ‘a painter painted a picture’. The only way to tell the subject from the object is...

Biotin-binding proteins (BBPs), such as avidin and streptavidin, represent potent insect control compounds which could be delivered via transgenic plants. The effects of BBPs on some pasture pests were determined. Black field cricket nymphs (Teleogryllus commodus) had significantly reduced growth and survival when fed on lettuce leaves painted with purified avidin. Adult clover root weevils (Si...

Painted turtles (Chrysemys picta) have a natural history unlike that of other chelonians from the northern United States and southern Canada. Although neonates of other freshwater turtles usually emerge from their subterranean nests in late summer or autumn and move to nearby marshes, lakes, or streams to spend their first winter, hatchling painted turtles typically remain inside their shallow ...

Schelling's classical segregation model gives a coherent explanation for the wide-spread phenomenon of residential segregation. We introduce an agent-based saturated open-city variant, Flip Schelling Process (FSP), in which agents, placed on graph, have one out two types and, based predominant type their neighborhood, decide whether to change types; similar new agent arriving as soon another le...