The response to intra- and interspecific faecal assembling signals was tested in Rhodnius prolixus. Papers impregnated with excrement of R. prolixus induced the aggregation of larvae of this species, but also of those of Triatoma infestans. However, faeces belonging to T. infestans were not able to assemble larvae of R. prolixus. On the other hand, there was no response of R. prolixus to putati...

Tetrastichus planipennisi Yang (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae), a gregarious larval endo-parasitoid, is one of three biocontrol agents from Asia currently being released in the United States to combat the invasive emerald ash borer, Agrilus planipennis Fairmaire (Coleoptera: Buprestidae). The current protocol for rearing T. planipennisi involves presenting the wasps with artificially infested ash sti...

30 May 2008. In the latest of a flurry of recent papers examining the role of copy number variations (CNVs) in schizophrenia, researchers report a strong association between de novo CNVs and the sporadic, or nonfamilial, form of the disorder. The paper is part of another flurry as well, being the third major paper this month from the Columbia University groups led by Maria Karayiorgou and Josep...

We propose a new extended format to represent constraint networks using XML. This format allows us to represent constraints defined either in extension or in intension. It also allows us to reference global constraints. Any instance of the problems CSP (Constraint Satisfaction Problem), QCSP (Quantified CSP) and WCSP (Weighted CSP) can be represented using this format. A subset of this format w...

Management Loading FPGA Programming Load time parameterization Debugging, Tracing & Monitoring Uniform Interface Research resource sharing Structures Composition (Hierarchy) Dependency (Platforms) Management (Infrastructure) Communication Framework Based on service specific plugins Integrated with RDLC3 Not restricted to RDL designs Failure management Class project with Nathan Burkhart & Lilia ...

To assess the number and percentage of acute care hospitals in the U.S. that have adopted smoke-free hospital campus (SFHC) policies, researchers conducted an assessment from January 2008 to May 2008 of available data on SFHC policy adoption in each state. Slightly more than one third (34.4%) of acute care, non-Federal hospitals had adopted such policies, with wide variation of policy adoption ...

ion. A belief state approximation implementing adaptive abstraction would improve on L2’s k-best method or N-Stage BFTE because it provides a more fine grained control than Proceedings of the Twenty-Third AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (2008)

This document describes the approach by the NLP Group at the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC-LSI), for the shared task on Automatic Evaluation of Machine Translation at the ACL 2008 Third SMT Workshop.

To assess changes in the clinical characteristics and treatment patterns of patients with newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes (T2D), the electronic health record system at Cleveland Clinic was used to create cross-sectional summaries of all patients with new-onset T2D in 2008 and 2013. Differences between the 2008 and 2013 data sets were assessed after adjusting for age, gender, race, and income. A...

INTRODUCTION The objective of the present study was to analyse secular trends in antibiotic consumption and resistance data from a network of 53 intensive care units (ICUs). METHODS The study involved prospective unit and laboratory-based surveillance in 53 German ICUs from 2001 through 2008. Data were calculated on the basis of proportions of nonduplicate resistant isolates, resistance densi...