Bryn L. Jones*, Eric C. Kerrigan, Jonathan F. Morrison and Tamer A. Zaki The Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK; Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London, London, UK; Department of Aeronautics, Imperial College London, London, UK; Department of Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College London, London...

Since about 1630, the Imperial Palace has been biologically isolated from other habitats by the development and urbanization of Tokyo. We morphologically examined the skulls of the lesser Japanese mole (Mogera imaizumii) from the Imperial Palace and compared them with those from Kanto District, while the sequences of the cytochrome b and 12S rRNA genes were also analyzed to clarify the genetic ...

Financial services are typically described as highly innovative (excessively so according to some). However, it is hard to see this by many standard IO innovation and productivity measures. Patenting for financial products in the UK is zero. The R&D/sales ratio in UK financial services is 0.02%, putting finance (on this measure) less innovative than furniture manufacture (0.3%). Whilst measured...

BACKGROUND The scarce fritillary Euphydryas (Hypodryas) maturna (L.) is included in the Habitats Directive's Annexes II and IV(a). Therefore, it is crucially important to be able to define the habitat and breeding places of E.maturna in a correct and unbiased way. NEW INFORMATION Data on a previously unknown pre-diapause main host plant, the small cow-wheat (Melampyrumsylvaticum L.), of Euphy...

The regal fritillary ("regal") (Speyeria idalia) is endangered in Wisconsin, USA, and declining and at risk range-wide. During 1988-2015, we surveyed 24 known regal sites and >100 areas of potential habitat in Wisconsin. We recorded 9037 individuals in 742.7 km on the peak survey per year at occupied sites. At six sites surveyed over 5-25 years, we found regal fritillaries in only one year, mos...

1 Schistosomiasis Control Initiative, Department of Infectious Diseases Epidemiology, St Mary’s campus, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London ; 2 MRC Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modelling, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom 3 Programme National de Lutte contre la Schistosomiase et les Vers Intestinaux, Ministère de la Santé...