This study was initiated owing to concern that removal of the invasive ground cover, Tradescantia fluminensis, might adversely effect the rare, giant predatory land snail, Powelliphanta traversi. Of 18 sites surveyed in the Horowhenua District, seven sites provide habitat for P. traversi and do not contain Tradescantia. Five colonies of P. traversi are affected by Tradescantia, these are: Waiop...

1 Bush A, Hedlin G, Carlsen KH, et al. Severe childhood asthma: a common international approach? Lancet 2008; 372: 1019–1021. 2 Hedlin G, Bush A, Lødrup Carlsen K, et al. Problematic severe asthma in children, not one problem but many: a GALEN initiative. Eur Respir J 2010; 36: 196–201. 3 Lang AM, Konradsen J, Carlsen KH, et al. Identifying problematic severe asthma in the individual child – do...

Inhibition of net photosynthesis (Pn) by moderate heat stress has been attributed to an inability of Rubisco activase to maintain Rubisco in an active form. To examine this proposal, the temperature response of Pn, Rubisco activation, chlorophyll fluorescence, and the activities of Rubisco and Rubisco activase were examined in species from contrasting environments. The temperature optimum of Ru...

Lexical decision and pronunciation experiments were conducted to investigate whether activation automatically spreads beyond directly associated concepts within the memory network. Prime-target pairs were constructed such that there was a relation between the prime (e.g., lion) and the target (e.g., stripes) only through a mediating concept (e.g., tiger). The lexical decision results yielded fa...

This paper reports on the conversion of the TIGER treebank, a syntactically interpreted corpus of German newspaper texts, into a testsuite for a broad-coverage Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG) for German. It presents the two major steps of the conversion, which consists of an XSLT transformation of the TIGER XML representation into a relational Prolog-like representation and the subsequent appl...

Tigers and their close relatives (Panthera) are some of the world's most endangered species. Here we report the de novo assembly of an Amur tiger whole-genome sequence as well as the genomic sequences of a white Bengal tiger, African lion, white African lion and snow leopard. Through comparative genetic analyses of these genomes, we find genetic signatures that may reflect molecular adaptations...

The TIGER system is in continuous use on 20 gas turbines across four continents. Continuously performing fault diagnosis of industrial gas turbines used for power generation. TIGER receives several hundred data inputs at a once per second interval and performs several layers of fault detection and diagnosis using expert system techniques in a temporal reasoning rulebase. Development of the syst...

On occasion a high amplitude band-like signal is noted on Doppler spectral recordings of valvular regurgitation (Fig. 1). However, clinically these “tiger stripes” are most often noted with porcine mitral prosthetic valves (Fig. 2), and may be indicative of an acute flail prosthetic leaflet.1–5 These band-like signals appear to be associated with an intracardiac oscillating structure,6 with the...

Parallel endografts were introduced as a way to expand endovascular repair of aneurysms involving branch vessels. However, endoleaks as a result of the gutters between the parallel endografts made this technique less favorable. The "eye of the tiger" technique was introduced to reduce the gutters between the parallel endografts proximally in the aorta. We report endovascular repair of infrarena...