Many of the fruits that add diversity and nutrition to our diet are wholly or partially dependent upon flower-visiting insects. For example, apples (Malus spp.) self-incompatible therefore rely on insect pollinators for fruit development seed production. Honey bees (Apis mellifera) often migrated into these orchards when in bloom. While previous studies have focused impact honey orchards, fewer...

This study investigates the population of Apis mellifera located in the montane meadows of the H.J. Andrews Forest. The generalized N-Mixture model was applied to estimate the abundance, the spatial distribution and the temporal population dynamics of Apis mellifera. Habitat fragmentation has been shown to have a negative impact on plant-pollinator networks. This study will test how meadow isol...

With the growing popularity of data mashups, the number of Web APIs has increased significantly. As a result, finding and composing the right APIs has become an increasingly complex task. Although several tools such as Yahoo’s Pipes, IBM’s Lotus Mashup, and Intel’s Mashmaker have been developed to enable users to create data mashups without programming skills, there are several challenging issu...

Traces of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) and other chemicals are demonstrated in effluents from sewage treatment plants (STPs) and they may affect quality of surface water and eventually drinking water. Treatment of effluents with granular activated carbon (GAC) or ozone to improve removal of APIs and other contaminants was evaluated at two Swedish STPs, Käppala and Uppsala (88 and 10...

Apis mellifera venom is one of the best characterized venoms among Hymenoptera, yet relatively little is known about venom belonging to other species in the genus Apis. Melittin, one of the most important bioactive peptides, has been isolated and characterized in A. mellifera, Apis cerana, Apis dorsata and Apis florea, while apamin has been only characterized in A. mellifera and A. cerana. At p...

Research Objects (ROs) are semantic aggregations of related scientific resources, along with their annotations and research context. They provide the means to refer a bundle of research artefacts supporting an investigation, and the mechanisms to associate human and machine-readable metadata to these artefacts. The RO model, implemented as a suite of ontologies, provides the means for capturing...