These opportunistic fungi gain entry through injuries or wounds caused by trauma, with most cases involving major trauma, such as traffic accidents, farming accidents (wound contamination) and surgery. There have, however, also been descriptions of infections by Mucorales fungi following minor trauma, including bites and stings. There have been reports of S vasiformis infection in a patient pec...

West Nile virus and wild birds West Nile virus (WN) is a virus of wild birds, transmitted from bird to bird primarily by mosquitoes. Native to southern Europe, the Middle East and Africa, the virus arrived in North America in 1999 and spread quickly across the continent. Over 225 species of birds have been reported as infected with WN; some of these species, such as members of the crow family, ...

Agricultural Census data is summarised over spatially course reporting units for reasons of farm confidentiality. This is problematic for research at a local level. This paper describes an approach combining dasymetric and volume preserving techniques to create a national land use dataset at 1km resolution. The results for an English county are compared with contemporaneous aggregated habitat d...

A system called MAGPIE (Multipurpose Automated Genome Project Investigation Environment) has been designed and implemented to meet the challenges of automated whole genome analysis. The system initiates large numbers of remote and local transactions, each depending on evolving criteria and on changing remote and local conditions. Transactions are requested from different types of remote and loc...

One of the contemporary hypotheses concerning the evolution of human altruism is the cooperative breeding hypothesis (CBH) which has recently been tested in non-human primates. Using a similar paradigm, we investigated prosociality in a cooperatively breeding corvid, the azure-winged magpie. We found that the magpies delivered food to their group members at high rates, and unlike other corvids,...

The aim of the Albatross project is to study applications and programming environments for computational grids consisting of multiple clusters that are connected by wide-area networks. Parallel processing on such systems is useful but challenging, given the large differences in latency and bandwidth between LANs and WANs. We provide efficient algorithms and programming environments that exploit...

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We have created a new Java-based integrated computational environment for the exploration of genomic data, called Bluejay. The system is capable of using almost any XML file related to genomic data. Non-XML data sources can be accessed via a proxy server. Bluejay has several features, which are new to Bioinformatics, including an unlimited semantic zoom capability, coupled with Scalable Vector ...

Optical materials with special optical properties are widely used in a broad span of technologies, from computer displays to solar energy utilization leading large dataset accumulated years extensive synthesis and characterization. Previously, machine learning models have been developed predict the absorption spectrum characterization image or vice versa. Herein we propose TLOpt, transfer based...

Semantic annotation extends the notion of metadata for accessing and sharing contents of different resources in different applications, such as Name Resolution, Information Extraction, Query Answering, and Regulation Analysis. Many ad hoc systems of semantic annotation have been developed, which have a major difference in ontologies used as the annotation reference. For example, KIM platform [1...