Nosema apis has been found on all continents where there is beekeeping using Apis mellifera. However, there is very little data on the prevalence and impact of Nosema apis in honey bee colonies in tropical climates and it may be uncertain if all records of Microsporidia in honey bees actually are records of the same parasite. Also, the development of N. apis has not been documented in tropical ...

There has been a lot of efforts to bridge the gap between web APIs and linked data. The RDF-REST framework, that we developed in the process of building a RESTful service using linked data, is part of them. This paper presents the approach adopted in the RDF-REST framework, and show its benefits in the design and use of web APIs. One of these benefits is an easy integration of existing APIs wit...

Nowadays, it is becoming more popular that RESTful APIs are used by web developers to enhance the functionality of websites. However, this might raise potential XSS attack threats. Unlike traditional XSS attacks, XSS attacks in this scenario may take advantage of more characteristics of RESTful APIs. RESTful APIs are common in social networks. Consequently, in this paper, we took social network...

This study investigates the population of Apis mellifera located in the montane meadows of the H.J. Andrews Forest. The generalized N-Mixture model was applied to estimate the abundance, the spatial distribution and the temporal population dynamics of Apis mellifera. Habitat fragmentation has been shown to have a negative impact on plant-pollinator networks. This study will test how meadow isol...

With the growing popularity of data mashups, the number of Web APIs has increased significantly. As a result, finding and composing the right APIs has become an increasingly complex task. Although several tools such as Yahoo’s Pipes, IBM’s Lotus Mashup, and Intel’s Mashmaker have been developed to enable users to create data mashups without programming skills, there are several challenging issu...

Traces of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) and other chemicals are demonstrated in effluents from sewage treatment plants (STPs) and they may affect quality of surface water and eventually drinking water. Treatment of effluents with granular activated carbon (GAC) or ozone to improve removal of APIs and other contaminants was evaluated at two Swedish STPs, Käppala and Uppsala (88 and 10...

Apis mellifera venom is one of the best characterized venoms among Hymenoptera, yet relatively little is known about venom belonging to other species in the genus Apis. Melittin, one of the most important bioactive peptides, has been isolated and characterized in A. mellifera, Apis cerana, Apis dorsata and Apis florea, while apamin has been only characterized in A. mellifera and A. cerana. At p...

Research Objects (ROs) are semantic aggregations of related scientific resources, along with their annotations and research context. They provide the means to refer a bundle of research artefacts supporting an investigation, and the mechanisms to associate human and machine-readable metadata to these artefacts. The RO model, implemented as a suite of ontologies, provides the means for capturing...