New impetus for considering the potential of spiders to control insect prey comes from foodweb models indicating that generalist predators can limit prey populations through the establishment of stable population equilibria between predators and associated prey (De Angelis et al., 1975; Tanner, 1975; Post & Travis, 1979). Spiders are generalist feeders (Riechert & Ĺuczak, 1982) that meet the cr...

The title of our talk—an implicit reference to the English cliché like a spider weaving her web— intends to attract one’s attention to the metaphor that can be drawn between the dance of a spider weaving her web and a new lexicographic gesture that is gradually emerging from the work on Net-like lexical resources (Fellbaum, 1998; Baker et al., 2003; Gader et al., 2012). Our claim is that the in...

ii PROJECT ABSTRACT Gathering, processing and distributing information from the World Wide Web will be a vital technology for the next century. Web search techniques have played a critical role in the development of information systems. Due to the diverse nature of web documents, traditional search techniques must be improved. Hyperlink structure based methods have proved to be powerful ways of...

background:   due to importance and fatal affect of red-back spiders, latrodectus hasselti , a f a unistic survey for presence of this spider in bandar abbas has been conducted. this animal is considerably the most medically importance spiders all over the world. methods: live adult spider specimens were collected from bandar abbas town using hand catch conventional method and transferred to th...

Geared to complement UML and to the specification of large software systems by non-mathematicians, spider diagrams are a visual language that generalizes the popular and intuitive Venn diagrams and Euler circles. The language design emphasized scalability and expressiveness while retaining intuitiveness. In this extended abstract we describe spider diagrams from a mathematical standpoint and sh...

A peptidomimetic compound containing leucine, tyrosine and malonic acid self-assembles through various noncovalent interactions to form spider silk-like fibers at ambient temperature. From the high-density liquid, a liquid-solid phase transition is initiated at 20 °C and solidification occurs upon contact with air. The fiber has comprehensive mechanical strength and optical properties similar t...

The envenomation syndrome of Redback spider bites, lactrodectism, is distinctive. However diagnosis can be difficult due to an atypical presentation. We describe the case of a 1 year old boy with irritability, diaphoresis and reduced oral intake, in whom a diagnosis was made of redback spider bite. Successful resolution of symptoms was achieved following treatment with antivenom. The symptoms a...

Nanobubble dynamics in the spider-spinning procedure is elucidated, and a theoretical model is established to show why spider drag-line silk protein assemblies have extraordinary strength and toughness. Suggested by the spider-spinning, a bubble electrospinning is investigated for mass production of nanofibers within diameters 20 nm. El Naschie’s E-infinity theory is a universal theory for nano...

We describe a method for drawing graph-enhanced Euler diagrams using a three stage method. The first stage is to lay out the underlying Euler diagram using a multicriteria optimizing system. The second stage is to find suitable locations for nodes in the zones of the Euler diagram using a force based method. The third stage is to minimize edge crossings and total edge length by swapping the loc...

SPIDER (simulating pesticides in ditches to assess ecological risk) is a locally distributed, capacitance-based model that accounts for pesticide entry into surface water bodies via spray drift, surface runoff, interlayer flow and drainage. SPIDER was developed for application to small agricultural catchments. Transport of pesticide from site of application to surface water via subsurface field...