The question of when in the course of a visit to a feeding place foraging honeybees (Apis mellifera) learn about its location was studied in Experiment 1 by moving the animals a short distance after they arrived and began to feed. A preference for the arrival place developed, although less rapidly than in control animals for which the arrival and departure places were the same. In Experiments 2...

Google Chrome has implemented a number of “HTML5” APIs, including the Geolocation API and various storage APIs. In this paper we discuss some of our experiences on the Google Chrome team in implementing these APIs, as well as our thoughts around privacy for new APIs we are considering implementing. Specifically, we discuss our ideas of how providing access to things such as speech, web cameras,...

School of Engineering and Information Technology University of New South Wales [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] Abstract Usability issues that exist in security APIs cause programmers to embed those security APIs incorrectly to the applications they develop. This results in introduction of security vulnerabilities to those applications. One of...

A Next Generation Network (NGN) application is an application that provides a value–added service seamlessly across an integrated network consisting of a combination of packet–switched, circuit–switched, wireless and wireline networks. Such an application is likely to be developed using a set of open, standard APIs. These APIs provide a level of abstraction to shield the application programmers...

Nosema spp. fungal gut parasites are among myriad possible explanations for contemporary increased mortality of western honey bees (Apis mellifera, hereafter honey bee) in many regions of the world. Invasive Nosema ceranae is particularly worrisome because some evidence suggests it has greater virulence than its congener N. apis. N. ceranae appears to have recently switched hosts from Asian hon...

In recent years, a great need for large scale servers has arisen. One practical solution is to construct such servers as cluster systems. For applications reside on them, inter process communications(IPCs) among them must be high performance. The current generation of System Area Networks(SANs) have very wide bandwidths, and very low communication latencies, and they usually consume relatively ...

Ascosphaera apis is a bee pathogen that causes bee larvae infection disease, to which treatment is not yet well investigated. The aim of this study was to investigate antifungal susceptibility in vitro against A. apis and to identify a new antifungal agent for this pathogen through minimal inhibitory concentration (MIC) assay and western blot analysis. Macelignan had 1.56 and 3.125 μg/mL MIC ag...

Nosema ceranae infection is ubiquitous in western honey bees, Apis mellifera, in the United States and the pathogen has apparently replaced Nosema apis in colonies nationwide. Displacement of N. apis suggests that N. ceranae has competitive advantages but N. ceranae was significantly less infective and less virulent than N. apis in commercially available lineages of honey bees in studies conduc...

Survival rates of Ascosphaera aggregata and Ascosphaera apis over the course of a year were tested using different storage treatments. For spores, the storage methods tested were freeze-drying and ultra-low temperatures, and for hyphae, freeze-drying, agar slants, and two methods of ultra-low temperatures. Spores of A. aggregata and A. apis stored well at -80 degrees C and after freeze-drying. ...

This short paper describes an initial work to facilitate a better fusion of Web APIs and Linked Data. It explores how the Semantic Web (SW) community can benefit from data available through Web APIs. We believe a tight integration of Web APIs with SW technologies like SPARQL, OWL and reasoning has several advantages over loose integration. We demonstrate how a SPARQL query can be executed again...