An otherwise healthy 35-year-old woman presented to our clinic in Central Texas complaining of malaise, whole body rash, and joint pain of 2 days duration. She had recently returned from her honeymoon in Bora Bora after a ten day stay. She stayed in an air-conditioned resort but did sleep a few nights under a mosquito tent in the tropical forest where she suffered from multiple insect bites. On...

Having understood that most attractive programming paradigms introduced recently in declarative symbolic programming languagesneed not be provided at the detriment of one another, we also believe that they can and should coexist with the more conventional state-effecting style of explicit control and data processing of imperative programming. To this end, we language designers must provide thre...

The purpose of this research is to investigate the extent to which knowledge can replace and support search in selecting a chess move and to delineate the issues involved. This has been carried out by constructing a program. PARADISE (PArtern Recognition Applied to Directing SEarch), which finds the best move in tactically sharp middle game positions from the games of chess masters. It encodes ...

High prevalences of gonadal intersex have been observed in wild fish populations in areas affected by domestic and industrial effluents. For this study, fish were collected in 1998 from the Cootes Paradise region of Hamilton Harbour in western Lake Ontario, Canada, to determine whether gonadal abnormalities, including intersex, were present in young of the year (YOY) fish. No gonadal abnormalit...

The cnemophiline 'birds of paradise' (Cnemophilinae) and Macgregor's 'bird of paradise' (Macgregoria) have traditionally been included in the Paradisaeidae although their relationships within the group have been enigmatic and subject to repeated discussion in the literature. Here we use sequences from two mitochondrial genes, cytochrome b and cytochrome oxidase I, along with a suite of morpholo...

The paradise fish, a small insectivore, coinhabits marshes of Southeast Asia with several predator fish species. Its ability to recognize and avoid harmful fish may depend upon both genetic factors and experience. Here we demonstrate genetic variability between the 20-day-old larvae of two inbred strains of paradise fish (P and S) in predator exploration and avoidance, using predator models. We...

Image retrieval is a complex task that differs according to the context and the user requirements in any specific field, for example in a medical environment. Search by text is often not possible or optimal and retrieval by the visual content does not always succeed in modelling high-level concepts that a user is looking for. Modern image retrieval techniques consists of multiple steps and aim ...

Understanding structural colours in nature requires the right set of optical experiments: this is illustrated by a new study on iridescent bird of paradise feathers, which suggests the potential behavioural importance of dynamic colour changes.

iranian islamic gardens like almost every cultures, represent beauty and happiness and improve the public perception. it has also special geometry with philosophical concept related to islam’s doctrine that is the focus of this research. following quran’s contents, paradise is a beautiful sophisticated garden that something flows under its trees. so the comparison between the somatic geometry o...