Dolenec, Z.: Intraspecific nest parasitism in the starling (Sturnus vulgaris) in northwestern Croatia. Nat. Croat., Vol. 10, No. 4., 315–320, 2001, Zagreb. This study reports intraspecific nest parasitism in starlings (Sturnus vulgaris) in the village of Mokrice, northwestern Croatia, in 1999 and 2000. Twenty one (30.5%) out of 70 observed nests during the two years contained one or two parasit...

There are two dynamics issues in vision chips: (i) The temporal dynamics issue due to the parasitic capacitors in a CMOS chip, and (ii) the spatial dynamics issue due to the regular array of processing elements in a chip. These issues are discussed in [1]–[3] for the resistor network with only associated parasitic capacitances. However, in this paper we consider also parasitic inductances as we...

The problem of parasitic residual deposition on the passivation layer in electroless deposition process is studied in this paper. The characterization analysis tools involved are focused ion beam (FIB), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), electron dispersive Xray (EDX) and metallurgical interface analysis. Samples were identified as either good or bad prior to the characterization process via a...

Splenic cysts are rare tumors, grouped into parasitic and non-parasitic cysts, no-parasitic further classified primary secondary depending on the mucous membrane of cyst, radiological imaging allows diagnosis to be made but confirmation is based an atom-o-pathological examination part. surgical treatment cornerstone symptomatic complicated splenic cysts. The conservative a reference for We repo...

We compared Heterorhabditis bacteriophora GPS11 expressed sequence tags (ESTs) to the ESTs of animal-parasitic, human-parasitic, plant-parasitic, and free-living nematodes. We identified 127 previously nondescribed ESTs of which 119 had homologs in ESTs and 8 had homologs in proteins of free-living nematodes. These ESTs were assigned putative functions in transcription, signal transduction, cel...

Abstract This paper introduces a new parasitic-insensitive charge transfer circuit using active output voltage feedback. The proposed parasitic-insensitive charge transfer circuit uses a passive charge transfer circuit for maximum output voltage dynamic range. A feedback loop between the transfer and output nodes is formed using a unity-gain opamp to make the two nodes’ potentials same, which p...

Once an animal begins to acquire behavior by social learning, it may be seduced by parasitic parasitic, behavior that reduces the animal’s fitness and thereby increases its own spread. However, the animal’s psychology will coevolve, potentially limiting the influence and spread of parasitic behavior. I revisit prominent models of the evolution of social learning and introduce the possibility of...

Strigolactones (SLs) are a collection of related small molecules that act as hormones in plant growth and development. Intriguingly, SLs also act as ecological communicators between plants and mycorrhizal fungi and between host plants and a collection of parasitic plant species. In the case of mycorrhizal fungi, SLs exude into the soil from host roots to attract fungal hyphae for a beneficial i...