G. Fern andez Signal Processing Laboratory Swiss Federal Institute of Technology CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland e-mail [email protected] J-P Zr yd Plant Cell Genetics Laboratory University of Lausanne CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland e-mail [email protected]

Pervasive service ecosystems are a new paradigm for the design of context-aware systems featuring adaptivity and self-awareness. A theoretical and practical framework has been proposed for addressing these scenarios, taking primary inspirations from natural ecosystems and grounding upon two basic abstractions: “live semantic annotations” (LSAs), which are descriptions stored in infrastructure n...

IRENE VILLARROEL FERNANDEZ, Flores philosophorum et poetarum: tras la huella del Speculum doctrinale de Vicente Beauvais, Textes Études du Moyen Âge 95, Basel: FIDEM 2020, xii+754 pp., ISBN 978-2-503-59067-7.

Resistance development by insect pests to the insecticidal proteins expressed in transgenic crops would increase reliance on broad spectrum chemical insecticides subsequently reducing environmental quality and increasing worker exposure to toxic chemicals. An important component of transgenic crop management is monitoring for insect pest resistance. This becomes critical when developing a resis...