The host suitability of 64 commercial corn hybrids for a Meloidogyne arenaria race 2 population and a M. incognita race 4 population was determined in greenhouse experiments. 'Northrup King 508' and 'Pioneer Brand 3147' maintained M. arenaria below and at the initial population level, respectively, indicating that these hybrids are relatively poor hosts for this species. RF values (final egg nu...

It has been my pleasure and honor to serve as President of the Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons (SLS) during the past year. Our society is being increasingly identified as a high-tech society. During my tenure, the board, working with Chairman Dr. Paul Wetter, accomplished a great deal in this regard. It was my distinct privilege to serve with such a dynamic, complementing board. I would no...

This book is a timely read, coinciding as it does with the moving of the renowned Exploratorium from the Palace of Fine Arts at the foot of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, where it was established in 1969, to its new and larger location at Pier 15 on the Embarcadero. This institution continues to embody the vision of its founder, Frank Oppenheimer, the subject of this highly personal y...

Circular dichroism (CD) spectroscopy is by far the most widely used technique for protein secondary structure analysis. A survey of the scientific literature will reveal that Robert Woody (Fig. 1) has undoubtedly been a pioneer in the elucidation of the relationship between CD and protein structure and

It is generally held that R.A. Fisher, Jerzy Neyman and Egon Pearson laid the foundations of statistical inference in the 1920s and 1930s. Recent research concerning the history of statistical ideas has discovered that already at the end of the 18 century Laplace sketched a method, called the principle of inverse probability, which involved characteristics features of statistical inference. Lap...

This paper outlines the main accomplishments towards realizing a Smart Microgrid Testbed at the British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT), Burnaby, BC, Canada. The paper describes a methodology to optimally select, site, size, control, and integrate distributed generation and storage units with the existing Campus power system. The proposed approach enables optimal operation of the Campus...