Abstract Background At the very end of the larval stage Drosophila expectorate a glue secreted by their salivary glands to attach themselves to a substrate while pupariating.The glue is a mixture of apparently unrelated proteins, some of which are highly glycosylated and possess internal repeats.Because species adhere to distinct substrates (i.e.le

For almost five years, phase 0 and phase A studies have been conducted by the French space agency for a second generation of the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) satellite devoted to a High Resolution (HR) follow-on mission.Within the frame of the preliminary results obtained with a candidate array for this SMOS-HR project, this contribution

Objective: to summarize criminological, social and economic indicators of development of the Russian Federation subjects; to identify and assess the hidden system dependencies between social indicators and levels of corruption; to define the links between individual Shorts indicators and to develop the methodology of anti-corruption ranking of the

Abstract Background Sleep apnea patients on CPAP therapy exhibit differences in how they adhere to the therapy.Previous studies have demonstrated the benefit of describing adherence in terms of discernible longitudinal patterns.However, these analyses have been done on a limited number of patients, and did not properly represent the temporal charac

In developing countries, the cotton harvesting operation is currently being performed manually.Due to the monotonous nature of this task and the involvement of a considerable amount of labor, this operation becomes very tedious and costly.The harvesting robots can be a good alternative for the selective picking of cotton bolls from the field.In thi