60,662 research outputs found
Aquatic insect populations in transplanted and natural populations of the purple pitcher plant, Sarracenia purpurea, on Prince Edward Island, Canada
In early July 1991, 234 pitcher plants (Sarracenia pulpurea) were transplanted from a Prince Edward Island bog being mined for peat into three bogs that varied with respect to previous pitcher plant abundance. One bog had a thriving natural pitcher plant population prior to transplant, while the other two had fewer than three pitcher plants. Between mid-June and late August 1993, abundances of the pitcher plant inquilines Wyeomyia smithii (Diptera: Culicidae), Metriocnemus knabi (Diptera: Chironomidae) and an unidentified sarcophagid fly (Diptera: Sarcophagidae) from transplant bogs were compared with remaining populations in die source bog and with other natural populations. Of the three inquilines, W. smithii was the most severely affected by transplant; it was extremely rare or absent in transplanted pitchers, although it was found in all other bogs investigated on Prince Edward Island. Metriocnemus knabi larvae were common in ail bogs investigated, except for those transplant bogs where pitcher plants were rare prior to transplant. Sarcophagid larvae were found in all of the bogs sampled, and were apparently unaffected by transplant. Desiccation during the transplant process, as well as the time of the transplant, may play a role in the success of recolonization of the pitcher plants after transplanting.PT: J; CR: ADDICOTT JF, 1974, ECOLOGY, V55, P475 BRADSHAW WE, 1984, AM MIDL NAT, V112, P294 CAMERON CJ, 1977, CAN J ZOOL, V55, P2018 ELLIOTT JM, 1977, FRESHWATER BIOL ASS, V25 FAIRCHILD WL, 1987, CAN ENTOMOL, V119, P647 FARKAS MJ, 1986, CAN ENTOMOL, V118, P1307 FARKAS MJ, 1986, CAN J ZOOL, V64, P285 FISH D, 1978, AM MIDL NAT, V99, P172 FORSYTH AB, 1975, CAN J ZOOL, V53, P174 GIVNISH TJ, 1989, PLANT ANIMAL INTERAC, P243 HEARD SB, 1994, ECOLOGY, V75, P1647 HEARD SB, 1994, ENVIRON ENTOMOL, V23, P1250 ISTOCK CA, 1975, EVOLUTION, V29, P296 ISTOCK CA, 1983, PHYTOTELMATA TERREST, P191 JUNIPER BE, 1989, CARNIVOROUS PLANTS MOGI M, 1980, TROPICAL MED, V22, P1 MOORE PD, 1974, PEATLANDS NASTASE AJ, 1991, AM MIDL NAT, V125, P356 NASTASE AJ, 1995, AM MIDL NAT, V133, P44 PATERSON CG, 1982, CAN J ZOOL, V60, P3075 SCHNELL DE, 1976, CARNIVOROUS PLANTS U WALLIS RC, 1967, MOSQ NEWS, V27, P9; NR: 22; TC: 5; J9: CAN J ZOOL; PG: 8; GA: VQ081Source type: Electronic(1
[Report to Chief J. E. Curry, by an unknown author #1]
Report to Chief J. E. Curry, by an unknown author. The report contains a list of officers who gave depositions to the United States Attorney
[Report to Chief J. E. Curry, by an unknown author #2]
Report to Chief J. E. Curry, by an unknown author. The report contains a list of officers who gave depositions to the United States Attorney
Syrup Pitcher
Patent for an improvement on a pitcher for syrup that prevents drips off of the edge of the pitcher
Evidence for the decay B0→J/ψω and measurement of the relative branching fractions of meson decays to J/ψη and J/ψη′
First evidence of the B 0 → J / ψ ω decay is found and the B s 0 → J / ψ η and B s 0 → J / ψ η ′ decays are studied using a dataset corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1.0 fb -1 collected by the LHCb experiment in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of sqrt(s) = 7 TeV. The branching fractions of these decays are measured relative to that of the B 0 → J / ψ ρ 0 decay:frac(B (B 0 → J / ψ ω), B (B 0 → J / ψ ρ 0)) = 0.89 ± 0.19 (stat) - 0.13 + 0.07 (syst),frac(B (B s 0 → J / ψ η), B (B 0 → J / ψ ρ 0)) = 14.0 ± 1.2 (stat) - 1.5 + 1.1 (syst) - 1.0 + 1.1 (frac(f d, f s)),frac(B (B s 0 → J / ψ η ′), B (B 0 → J / ψ ρ 0)) = 12.7 ± 1.1 (stat) - 1.3 + 0.5 (syst) - 0.9 + 1.0 (frac(f d, f s)), where the last uncertainty is due to the knowledge of f d / f s, the ratio of b-quark hadronization factors that accounts for the different production rate of B 0 and B s 0 mesons. The ratio of the branching fractions of B s 0 → J / ψ η ′ and B s 0 → J / ψ η decays is measured to befrac(B (B s 0 → J / ψ η ′), B (B s 0 → J / ψ η)) = 0.90 ± 0.09 (stat) - 0.02 + 0.06 (syst)
Author, publisher and bookseller : a tripartite synergy in Nigerian book industry
This work is about the roles of Author, Publisher and Bookseller in Book development in
Nigeria. The paper started by delving into the history of Book Publishing in Nigeria after
which it proceeded by defining who an author, a publisher, and a bookseller is and
expatiated on the indispensable roles of these key actors in Nigerian Book Industry and in
the emerging Information Society. Furthermore, the various constraints to book
development were identified while the paper advised on how the Book Industry can be
further promoted in Nigeria. However, the paper concluded and made recommendations
on how the Book sector can help in enhancing scholarship in the country
Measurement of the ratio of prompt χ c to J / ψ production in pp collisions at √s = 7 TeV
The prompt production of charmonium χ c and J / ψ states is studied in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of √s = 7 TeV at the Large Hadron Collider. The χ c and J / ψ mesons are identified through their decays χ c → J / ψ γ and J / ψ → μ + μ - using 36 pb - 1 of data collected by the LHCb detector in 2010. The ratio of the prompt production cross-sections for χ c and J / ψ, σ (χ c → J / ψ γ) / σ (J / ψ), is determined as a function of the J / ψ transverse momentum in the range 2 < p T J / ψ < 15 GeV / c. The results are in excellent agreement with next-to-leading order non-relativistic expectations and show a significant discrepancy compared with the colour singlet model prediction at leading order, especially in the low p T J / ψ region
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
We conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Measurement of the time-dependent CP asymmetry in B0 -> J/ψ KS0 decays
This Letter reports a measurement of the CP violation observables SJ/ψK0S and CJ/ψK0S in the decay channel B0→J/ψK0S performed with 1.0 fb−1 of pp collisions at s√=7 TeV collected by the LHCb experiment. The fit to the data yields SJ/ψK0S=0.73±0.07(stat)±0.04(syst) and CJ/ψK0S=0.03±0.09(stat)±0.01(syst). Both values are consistent with the current world averages and within
expectations from the Standard Model
- …
