1 Centre for Psychiatry, Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine, Barts and The London, Queen Mary’s School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of London, London, United Kingdom. 2 Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC), Madrid, Spain. 3 National Institute for Public Health and Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, the Netherlands. 4 School of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene,...

The Eliza [1] program relies on having a rich backing script to generate responses based on matches with words the user types. If it were to have a script the size and complexity of Google, it might be able to pass as a live human. If the user’s entry contains no matching words in the script, the program could use the resources of Google to generate something new and appropriate. The introducti...

Christopher Goodman and John Knox were 16th century famous theologians reformers, who well-known for their radical resistence against the authority of English Queen Mary Tudor Scottish Queen-Regent de Guise. During years they spent in exile, wrote most famoust works – How Superior Powers Ought To Be Obeyed By Their Subjects: And Wherein They May Lawfully God´s Word Disobeyed Resisted The...

This paper describes Viktoria, an entertaining interactive guide on the Web that informs visitors about the Viktoria Research Institute. By applying the models of communication used in the well-known Eliza program, it expresses emotional states and communicates by using natural language. It has enhanced functionality compared to Eliza in that it has the ability to associate and remember the sub...

Pleometrosis, or colony founding via multiple queens, occurs in a localized population of the seedharvester ant Pogonomyrmex californicus. In an apparently unusual secondary modification, queens of P. californicus are also obligate foragers; that is, queens must forage to garner the resources necessary to rear their first brood. Laboratory experiments measured the costs and benefits of pleometr...

ABSTRACT In this study we evaluated the performance of potato cultivars in organic production system, aiming to identify those more productive and less damaged by Phytophthora infestans Diabrotica speciosa. The experiment was conducted during 2013/2014 2014/2015 crop seasons. Cultivars Ágata, Aracy Ruiva, Vitória, Clara, Eliza, Catucha Cris were assessed for severity area under disease progress...