Membrane controllers have been developed using Numerical P Systems and their extension, Enzymatic Numerical P Systems, for controlling mobile robots like epuck and Khepera III. In this paper we prove that membrane controllers can be easily adapted for other types of robotic platforms. Therefore, obstacle avoidance and follower behaviors were adapted for Koala robots. The membrane controllers fo...

OBJECTIVE To compare the Koala air-charged coupled catheter (Clinical Innovations, Inc., Murray, Utah) for monitoring intrauterine pressure (IUP) during active labor with an electronic pressure transducer-tip catheter, Intran Plus (Utah Medical Products, Midvale, Utah). STUDY DESIGN Simultaneous recordings with Koala and Intran catheters bound together at their tips were made in 18 term patie...

Koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) road kills occur frequently along the Peak Downs highway through Clarke-Connors ranges. Highway upgrades allowed mitigation of koala-vehicle collision frequency while maintaining koala population connectivity. This project aimed to understand kill distribution inform protective infrastructure investment. were associated with: (1) streams and alluvia where dominant...

Background. Retroviral integration into the host germline results in permanent viral colonization of vertebrate genomes. The koala retrovirus (KoRV) is currently invading the germline of the koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) and provides a unique opportunity for studying retroviral endogenization. Previous analysis of KoRV integration patterns in modern koalas demonstrate that they share integrati...

Chlamydia pecorum is a significant pathogen of domestic livestock and wildlife. We have developed a C. pecorum-specific multilocus sequence analysis (MLSA) scheme to examine the genetic diversity of and relationships between Australian sheep, cattle, and koala isolates. An MLSA of seven concatenated housekeeping gene fragments was performed using 35 isolates, including 18 livestock isolates (11...

Accurate data on presence/absence and spatial distribution for fauna species is key to their conservation. Collecting such data, however, can be time consuming, laborious and costly, in particular for fauna species characterised by low densities, large home ranges, cryptic or elusive behaviour. For such species, including koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus), indicators of species presence can be a ...

Raphael Mercier is a researcher at the Institute Jean-Pierre Bourgin, located at the Versailles node of INRA. He graduated from the University of Paris XI in 2001. After a postdoc at the University of Birmingham UK with Gareth Jones and Chris Franklin, he returned to Versailles, where he got a permanent position in 2003. His entire scientific career has been devoted to the study of meiosis in t...

Geleitet von der Fragestellung, wie sich die aktuellen inhaltlichen und technologischen Konzepte des sog. Web2.0 auf universitäre Infrastrukturen übertragen und dabei neue Potenziale sowohl für traditionelle als auch informelle Lernkontexte umsetzen lassen, wurde an der Universität Paderborn die ko-aktive Lernund Arbeitsumgebung koaLA entwickelt. In diesem Papier beschreiben wir, welche Überleg...

We identified a new subgroup of koala retrovirus (KoRV), named KoRV-J, which utilizes thiamine transport protein 1 as a receptor instead of the Pit-1 receptor used by KoRV (KoRV-A). By subgroup-specific PCR, KoRV-J and KoRV-A were detected in 67.5 and 100% of koalas originating from koalas from northern Australia, respectively. Altogether, our results indicate that the invasion of the koala pop...

In this paper we present KOALA, a system realizing shared displays for promoting informal cooperation. We report the results from an exploratory study of real world usage of KOALA that we have conducted to understand how shared display systems are used and how their usage patterns might differ from their paperbased counterparts. This study was conducted with the aim of informing the design of a...