Recent discoveries reveal that southern China's karsts hold the most diverse and morphologically modified subterranean trechine beetles in the world, albeit the first troglobitic blind beetle was only reported in the early 1990's. In total, 110 species belonging to 43 genera of cavernicolous trechines have hitherto been recorded from the karsts of southern China, including the following five ne...

OBJECTIVES The study investigated the species distribution, antibiotic susceptibility patterns and genotypic resistance characteristics of 113 consecutive blood culture isolates of Acinetobacter species collected between 2005 and 2007 throughout Norway. METHODS Species identification was performed by partial rpoB sequence analysis, and verified by 16S rDNA and recA sequence analyses. Suscepti...

This experiment was designed to assess the capacity of dietary genistein (GEN), to attenuate bone loss in ovariectomized (OVX) and ovary-intact VCD-treated mice. Pretreatment of mice with 4-vinylcyclohexene diepoxide (VCD) gradually and selectively destroys ovarian follicles whilst leaving ovarian androgen-producing cells largely intact. VCD induces a perimenopause-like condition prior to the o...

The structural, mechanical, anisotropic, electronic, and thermal properties of t-Si₃N₄, t-Si₂GeN₄, t-SiGe₂N₄, and t-Ge₃N₄ in the tetragonal phase are systematically investigated in the present work. The mechanical stability is proved by the elastic constants of t-Si₃N₄, t-Si₂GeN₄, t-SiGe₂N₄, and t-Ge₃N₄. Moreover, they all demonstrate brittleness, because B/G < 1.75, and v < 0.26. The elastic a...

PURPOSE To conduct meta-analyses of all available studies comparing efficacies of prophylactic cefuroxime and prophylactic gentamicin/flucloxacillin (Gen/Flu) in preventing post-operative wound infections and their association with risks of Clostridium difficile infections and post-operative renal impairment. METHODS Published studies including both prophylactic cefuroxime and prophylactic Ge...

An endocrine disrupting chemical (EDC) is a global health concern. In this study, we examined the effects of genistein (GEN) on bisphenol A (BPA) or 17β-estradiol (E2)-induced cell growth and gene alterations of BG-1 ovarian cancer cells expressing estrogen receptors (ERs). In an in vitro cell viability assay, E2 or BPA significantly increased the...

In the current paper the first fossil representatives of leaf-beetles from the subfamily Lamprosomatinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) are described and illustrated from Upper Eocene Baltic amber: Succinoomorphus warchalowskii gen. et sp. nov., Archelamprosomius balticus gen. et sp. nov., and Archelamprosomius kirejtshuki sp. nov. A key to fossil Lamprosomatinae is provided.

Two new genera and two new species of Aleocharinae (Staphylinidae) from Malaysia are described: Parawroughtonilla Maruyama, gen. n. (type species: Parawroughtonilla hirsutaMaruyama, sp. n.), Leptogenonia Maruyama, gen. n. (type species: Leptogenonia roslii Maruyama, sp. n.), which are associated with Leptogenys borneensis Wheeler, 1919. They are closely related and share a unique character stat...

Carinityla Sheng & Sun gen. n., Carinityla punctulata Sheng & Sun sp. n. and Carinityla pilosa Sheng & Sun sp. n. belonging to the tribe Phygadeuontini of the subfamily Cryptinae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae), collected from Jiangxi Province, China, are described. A key to the species of the new genus, Carinityla Sheng & Sun, gen. n., is provided and the genus is placed in Townes' key to genera ...

This demo illustrates WS-GEN, a tool supporting the automated composition of web services. WS-GEN takes as input the description of a set of available services and a “business requirement” describing the goal of the composed service, and automatically generates the executable code implementing the new composed service.