that are in danger of becoming extinct or have already done so. It’s remarkable as the combined effort of hundreds of thousands of people, many of them amateurs, to compile data on the status of their favorite taxa. For amphibians, we know that there were 1437 species described by taxonomists before 1900. Of these, 18 are either extinct or presumed extinct. After 1900, taxonomists described 496...

Stability of the π-π stacking interactions in the Ben||N-substituted-coronene complexes was studied using the computational quantum chemistry methods (where Ben is benzene and || denotes π-π stacking interaction, and N-substituted-coronene is coronene molecule which substituted with different number of N atoms). The results reveal simultaneous effects of structure and number of Heteroatom on th...

We thank Ari Laaksonen and the two anonymous reviewers of this manuscript for their comments. In the following we provide individual replies to each review. Reviewer 1 This manuscript provides an extension of the kappa formalism introduced by the same authors in ACP in 2007 (PK07) to account for compounds with limited solubility. An algorithm to calculate critical supersaturations is provided. ...

Does fiscal decentralization lead to more efficient governance, better public goods, and higher economic growth? This paper tests hypotheses of the theoretical literature that results of decentralization depend on features of political institutions. Using data from up to 95 countries for 25 years we show that the effect of fiscal decentralization strongly depends on two aspects of political cen...

The aim of this study was to correlate apoptotic cell rate from different nephron segments between control group and groups of patients with Balkan endemic nephropathy (BEN). Kidney specimens of20 patients with clinically and epidemiologically confirmed BEN were compared with biopsy material of 10 patients (group I, non BEN) without glomerular or tubulointerstitial disease. Out of 20 patients w...

Four ben genes responsible for the conversion of benzoate to catechol in Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO have been mapped to a 4.6 kb KpnI fragment, ben-1 and ben-4 were known to be separate genes but now ben-1508 has been found to be different from ben-2. The two genes were distinguished by Tn5 mutagenesis of a cosmid clone and deletion mapping. It is likely that the four genes mapped (ben-4, ben-2...