The emerging tick-borne pathogen Anaplasma phagocytophilum is under increasing scrutiny for the existence of subpopulations that are adapted to different natural cycles. Here, we characterized the diversity of A. phagocytophilum genotypes circulating in a natural system that includes multiple hosts and at least 2 tick species, Ixodes ricinus and the small mammal specialist I. trianguliceps. We ...

Does social capital as resources of network members affect health information search? Analyzing data from the 2004 General Social Survey in the United States, this study measures two social capital indicators (average education of network members and proportion of network members with a high school degree or higher) using the name generator. Most results are consistent using those two indicator...

We reanalyzed a dataset consisting of approximately 10,700 crepuscular and night-biting female mosquitoes (Culicidae) collected over 12 mo in the canopy and understorey of primary Amazonian rain forest. We investigate whether vertical habitat stratification and rainfall modified major ecological parameters of this mosquito ensemble, combining descriptive and hypothesis-testing statistics with s...

This report discusses the practices which have been used or recommended for increasing the degree of diversity between redundant implementations of software or software-based systems. Its purpose is to give useful indications for designers, project managers and safety/reliability assessors in deciding about how great an advantage should be expected from the use of these practices, in absolute a...

background: owing to its favourable decay characteristics 177lu [t1/2= 6.71 d, eβ(max)= 497 kev] is an attractive radionuclide for various therapeutic applications. ethylene diamine tatramethylene phosphonate (edtmp) is one of the most widely used ligands which form stable complexes with various radionuclides and all the complexes. materials and methods: enriched 176lu2o3 was dissolved in 0.1 n...

Why are there more species in the tropics than in temperate regions? In recent years, this long-standing question has been addressed primarily by seeking environmental correlates of diversity. But to understand the ultimate causes of diversity patterns, we must also examine the evolutionary and biogeographic processes that directly change species numbers (i.e., speciation, extinction, and dispe...

Accuracy and diversity are two important aspects to evaluate the performance of recommender systems. Two diffusion-based methods were proposed respectively inspired by the mass diffusion (MD) and heat conduction (HC) processes on networks. It has been pointed out that MD has high recommendation accuracy yet low diversity, while HC succeeds in seeking out novel or niche items but with relatively...

Citizenship, human rights and diversity are subjects of urgent debates in societies seeking to consolidate democratic advances. Human citizenship historical, therefore, contextual. Consequently, the dissemination based on recognition political, social, civil cultural is interdependent multiple social configurations. It was aforementioned perspectives that guided implementation  the “Refere...

Seekers of information in libraries either go through a librarian intermediary or they help themselves. When they go through librarians they must develop their questions through four levels of need, referred to here as the visceral, conscious, formalized, and compromised needs. In his pre-search interview with an information-seeker the reference librarian attempts to help him arrive at an under...

Sense-making theory has suffered from a lack of development. I claim that the reason for this state of affairs lies in two facts: 1) the theory has never been explicitly and systematically expounded and brought down to the empirical level step by step, and 2) there has been little discussion on the impact of empirical results on the theory, i.e. an explicit discussion of the assumed circular im...