Letter from the Editor-in-Chief . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . David Lomet 1 TC on Data Engineering: Election of Chair for 2007-2008 . . . . . . . . Betty Salzberg, David Lomet, Erich Neuhold 2 Position Statement and Biography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

in the course of our faunistic survey on leafhoppers (hem.: cicadellidae) in northwestern iran, 46 species were collected and identified of which the species macrosteles chobauti ribaut, 1952 is newly recorded from iran. drs. hani abdul-nour (lebanese university, lebanon) and paul freytag (university of kentucky, usa) confirmed the identification of the species.

The Chair of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Data Engineering (TCDE) is elected for a two-year period. The mandate of the current Chair, Kyu-Young Whang, is coming to an end and it is time to elect a Chair for the next two years. The TCDE Chair Nominating Committee, consisting of Amr El Abaddi, Paul Larson, and David Lomet, has nominated two candidates for the position as Chair...

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The Roman Church was a leading public institution of the Middle Ages and its law, canon belonged to most powerful factors European legal history. Today’s lawyers have hardly any awareness canonist origins several current institutions. Together with law constituted system “both laws” (utrumque ius) which were only laws acknowledged as “learned” and, consequently, taught at medieval universities....