during a faunistic survey of natural enemies of spider mites of genus tetranychus in mashhad and vicinity, a predatory gall midge species belonging to the family cecidomyiidae was collected and identified as feltiella acarisuga vallot. f. acarisuga is one of the ten species in the genus feltiella and an important biological control agent of tetranychid mites has previously been reported from va...

in this paper, a genetic algorithm is presented for an identical parallel-machine scheduling problem with family setup time that minimizes the total weighted flow time ( ). no set-up is necessary between jobs belonging to the same family. a set-up must be scheduled when switching from the processing of family i jobs to those of another family j, i  j, the duration of this set-up being the sequ...

-In this paper, we carry out a comparative study of the efficacy of wavelets belonging to Daubechies and Coiflet family in achieving image segmentation through a fast statistical algorithm.The fact that wavelets belonging to Daubechies family optimally capture the polynomial trends and those of Coiflet family satisfy mini-max condition, makes this comparison interesting. In the context of the p...

orchard workers in north china are highly exposed to orchard pollens, especially peach and other rosaceae family pollens during pollination season. the aim of this study was to investigate whether occupational allergy to peach tree pollen as a member of rosaceae family is ige-mediated and to evaluate the cross-reactivity among rosaceae family pollens. allergen skin test and conjunctival challen...

Two new beta-sitosterol esters have been isolated from the flowers of Punica granatum Linn. (Punicaceae) along with the known compounds n-tricosane (3), n-heptacosanyl n-hexanoate (4), olean-5,12-dien-3beta-ol-28-oic acid (5), and olean-12-en-3beta-ol-28-oic acid (6). The structures of the new phytosterols have been elucidated as stigmast-5-en-3beta-ol-3beta-dodecanoate (beta-sitosterol laurate...

The Synechocystis sp. PCC6803 insertion sequence ISY100 (ISTcSa) belongs to the Tc1/mariner/IS630 family of transposable elements. ISY100 transposase was purified and shown to promote transposition in vitro. Transposase binds specifically to ISY100 terminal inverted repeat sequences via an N-terminal DNA-binding domain containing two helix-turn-helix motifs. Transposase is the only protein requ...

he microtubule cytoskeleton plays a fundamental role in cell organization and membrane traffic in higher eukaryotes. It is well established that molecular motors are involved in membrane–microtubule interactions, but it has also been proposed that nonmotor microtubulebinding (MTB) proteins known as CLIPs (cytoplasmic linker proteins) have basic roles in these processes. We report here the chara...