The ontogenetic status of the known specimens alvarezsaurid theropod dinosaurs is revised. We present histological data that holotype Parvicursor remotus from Upper Cretaceous Barungoyot Formation Mongolia not an adult individual, as previously thought, but a juvenile less than one year old. miniaturization took place only in Late Asiatic Parvicursorinae, whereas South American non-parvicursori...

while the application of optical and photonic technologies in the communications, computing, medicine and industrial manufacturing has been growing rapidly, the miniaturization of these technologies has been slow due to the limitation on the diffraction. however, the developments of nanoscale components and guiding methods are continuing with a rapid pace. since waveguiding is a fundamental iss...

Moving to smaller libraries can be considered as a relevant task when porting software systems to limited-resource devices (e.g., hand-helds). Library miniaturization will be particularly effective if based on both dynamic (keeping into account dependencies exploited during application execution in a given user profile) and static (keeping into account all possible dependencies) information. Th...