Several aspects of the ecology of Rattus exufans are revie:ved in an effort to collate a large proportion of the widely scattered hterature relatillg. to the species. Subspecific relationships are discuss~d to illustrate the early. Co~fu~lOn. regarding taxonomic position. Literature covenng R. exula~s.geog~aphicdistnb~tlOn, habitat, nutrition, reproduction, movements, and competltlon With other...

Videoconferencing allows geographically dispersed parties to communicate by simultaneous audioand video transmissions. It is used in a variety of application scenarios with a wide range of coordination needs and efforts, e.g. private chat, discussion meetings, and negotiation tasks. In particular in scenarios requiring certain levels of trust and judgement non-verbal communication cues are of h...

The success of ART as a caries management approach is supported by more than 20 years of scientific evidence. ART follows the contemporary concepts of modern cariology and restorative dentistry. It challenges treatment concepts such as step-wise excavation and the need for complete removal of affected dentine. The ART approach so far has mainly used high-viscosity glass-ionomer as the sealant a...

We have extended and improved the statistical test recently developed by Rauzy for assessing the completeness in apparent magnitude of magnitude-redshift surveys. Our improved test statistic retains the robust properties – specifically independence of the spatial distribution of galaxies within a survey – of the Tc statistic introduced in Rauzy’s seminal paper, but now accounts for the presence...

More than 50 years after the appearance of the motor theory of speech perception, it is timely to evaluate its three main claims that (1) speech processing is special, (2) perceiving speech is perceiving gestures, and (3) the motor system is recruited for perceiving speech. We argue that to the extent that it can be evaluated, the first claim is likely false. As for the second claim, we review ...

OBJECTIVES Intraoperative direct electrical stimulation (DES) is increasingly used in patients operated on for tumours in critical language areas. Although a positive impact of DES on postoperative linguistic outcome is generally advocated, the literature is only scantily documented with information about the linguistic methods applied in awake surgery. This article critically reviews the neuro...

According to a consensus that has not been seriously challenged in nearly a century, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and Isaac Newton independently coinvented calculus. Neither would have countenanced history’s verdict. Maintaining that he alone invented calculus, Leibniz argued that his priority should be recognized for the good of mathematics. As he reasoned [12, p. 22], “It is most useful that the...

In this work, a number of optical switching testbeds and demonstrators are studied and analyzed. The used methodology is as follows: firstly, the principal figures of merit (FOM) of optical networks are presented, both at the high (protocol) level and at low (physical layer) level. Secondly, a framework for the classification of the several kinds of optical networks and optical switching techno...

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