Six new species of the Neotropical pergid genus Lagideus are described and illustrated: Lagideus boyaca, L. magdalena, L. schmidti, and L. flavus from Colombia and L. tapanti, and L. isidro from Costa Rica. Lagideus romius Smith is newly recorded from Colombia and the female lancet is illustrated. Females are described for the first time for Lagideus longicus Smith from Costa Rica and L. albita...

Citation: Epiard M, Avard G, de Moor JM, Martínez Cruz M, Barrantes Castillo G and Bakkar H (2017) Relationship between Diffuse CO2 Degassing and Volcanic Activity. Case Study of the Poás, Irazú, and Turrialba Volcanoes, Costa Rica. Front. Earth Sci. 5:71. doi: 10.3389/feart.2017.00071 Relationship between Diffuse CO2 Degassing and Volcanic Activity. Case Study of the Poás, Irazú, and Turrialba...

Fig 2, " Temperature and dissolved oxygen profile generated near Jaco Wall, Costa Rica from a CTD cast, " is incorrect and is a duplication of Fig.1, " Carbonates formations in different habitats on the Costa Rica Margin. " The authors have provided a corrected version here. Copyright: © 2015 Levin et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribu...

The new genus Ampliphax, assigned to the Delphacini, is described and illustrated with a single new species A. grandis from Costa Rica and Panama. Ampliphax grandis is a large species with a projected head. DNA barcode data suggest, among currently barcoded taxa, an affinity to the genus Bostaera. A checklist of the delphacid species from Costa Rica, Panama, and Nicaragua based on literature an...

Life Sciences Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA (A.R., P.J.S., D.H.S.); Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA (L.A., R.R.N., B.S.); Department of Pharmacology (C.C.), Department of Medicinal Chemistry (D.H.S.), Department of Microbiology and Immunology (D.H.S.), Department of Chemistry (D.H.S.), Center for Chemical Genomics...

Motivated by the success of Deep Neural Networks in computer vision, we propose a deep Regularized Reconstruction Independent Component Analysis network (RICA) for RGB-D image classification. In each layer of this network, we include a RICA as the basic building block to determine the relationship between the gray-scale and depth images corresponding to the same object or scene. Implementing co...

We have conjugated epidermal growth factor (EGF) with the A subunit of ricin (RICa) via a dithiopropionyl linkage. The EGF-RICa conjugate was competitive with [125I]EGF for binding to cell surface EGF receptors. Entry of the conjugate into cells was seen within 10 min at 37 degrees C and inhibition of protein synthesis was seen within 90 min. The blockage of protein synthesis continued for more...

1 Department of Chemistry, Sapienza University of Rome, P.le A. Moro 5, 00185, Rome, Italy 2 Department of Physical Chemistry,University of Santiago de Compostela, Avda. Alfonso X El Sabio s/n, 27002 Lugo, Spain 3 Department of Chemistry, University of Costa Rica, San Josè, Costa Rica 4 Department of Physics, University of Calabria, Via P. Bucci 33C, Cosenza I-87036, Italy *e-mail: l.galantini@...

PER CAMNER,1 MARGOT LUNDBORG,1 LENA LÅSTBOM,1 PER GERDE,1 NORMA GROSS,1,2,3 AND CONNIE JARSTRAND2 1Division of Inhalation Toxicology, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, SE-171 77 Stockholm; 2Division of Clinical and Oral Bacteriology, Department of Immunology, Microbiology, Pathology and Infectious Diseases, Huddinge University Hospital, SE-141 86 Huddinge, Sweden; and ...

Fourteen species of Sipuncula belonging to 9 genera have been reported from Costa Rican waters, mostly from the Pacific coast. Three of these species are new records for Costa Rica (Phascolion strombus (Montagu 1804), Aspidosiphon (Aspidosiphon) muelleri Diesing 1851, and Aspidosiphon (Aspidosiphon) gracilis schnehageni (W. Fisher 1946)). One species of Echiura, Thalassema steinbecki Fisher 194...