in the netherlands, serious soil investigations were started in the mid-1800s and in the mid-1900s with university courses and the establishment of research institutes soil science rapidly expanded. the dutch and western european society have changed dramatically in the past century from and early industrial society with a dominantly rural and agricultural character to a post-industrial society...

should be subjected to constant changes of nomenclature crops up at regular intervals. The only criticism is a personal one. The English throughout the book is of the Shakespearean type, at times so precise and at others so flowery as to be pedantic. For instance, page 114, describing one of the approaches to the popliteal fossa: "A plan intending to exploit the rear of any situation solely fro...

14 species of the Siobla formosana species-group are revised. Three new species: Siobla jiangi Niu & Wei, sp. nov., S. parallela Niu & Wei, sp. nov., S. weiweii Niu & Wei, sp. nov. are described. Siobla rufipes Malaise, 1945 is a new synonym of S. atra Malaise, 1945. The males formerly assigned to S. atra belong to S. semipicta Malaise, 1945. The previously unknown female of Siobla rufopropodea...

Motivation: Haplotypes play a crucial role in genetic analysis and have many applications such as gene disease diagnoses, association studies, ancestry inference and so forth. The development of DNA sequencing technologies makes it possible to obtain haplotypes from a set of aligned reads originated from both copies of a chromosome of a single individual. This approach is often known as haploty...

We are met here to-day in thankful remembrance of the life and work of Thomas Barlow. A memorial service has already been held for him elsewhere which was largely attended by his many friends both lay and medical, but it is fitting that we should have our own simple service here in the Hospital to which he was so much devoted and where much of his best work was done. We may look upon it, I thin...

makran subduction zone (msz) offshore of iran and pakistan is one of the most tsunamigenic sources in the indian ocean. historically, the msz has generated some tsunamigenic earthquakes like that of 28 november 1945 with the death tool of more than 4000 people along the coasts of iran, pakistan, india, and oman. in this study, the tsunami hazard associated with the msz is investigated. at first...

Ruxandra Sireteanu, a leading researcher in experimental and clinical visual neuroscience, died on September 1, 2008 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. At the height of her academic and scientific career, shortly before her 63rd birthday, she unexpectedly passed away following brain trauma. Ruxandra Sireteanu is best known in the scientific community for her pioneering work on neural plasticity and...

Motivation: Many methods predict the physical interaction between two proteins (protein-protein interactions; PPIs) from sequence alone. Their performance drops substantially for proteins not used for training. Results: Here, we introduce a new approach to predict PPIs from sequence alone which is based on evolutionary profiles and profile-kernel support vector machines. It improved over the st...

The literature on conflict management offers two explanations of why the effectiveness of thirdparties to settle militarized disputes differs. The structural research tradition focuses on conflictcharacteristics, while the individualist approaches highlight the background, skills and powerof a mediator, as well as the mediation strategy. This article reconciles these two approaches,...