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Varroa destructor (Mesostigmata: Varroidae) in Costa Rica: population dynamics and its influence on the colony condition of Africanized honey bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae)
... March, the rates of varroa infestation in adult bees and the number of fallen mites were ...On the other hand, mite infestation increased in July, and this coincided with a decrease in the ...
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Behind the Corporate Veil: Company Control in the Lago Colony of Aruba
... see the luxuri- ous lifestyle of those in the Colony, if only from a ...Indeed, the company prohibited non-white, non-managers from entering the foreign enclave except to perform ...
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Predictors of proximity to others in colony housed shelter cats (Felis silvestris catus)
... in colony housing interact with each other. Overall, the cats varied highly on propensity to be sociable with one ...of the cats were never in proximity to another cat during the period of ...
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Walking towards independence: an analysis of the causes of the independence of the United States
... in the previous section, the way in which colonization took place in North America would be essential for the development of the ...as the colonization was the result of private ...
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Early Explorers Miniature Biographies
... European colony on mainland soil in the New ...of the Colony of Veragua (basically all Spanish colonial territory at the time in the New World) in ...accomplishment: the ...
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De la conquista a la independencia: la experiencia colonial nigeriana
... in the region. The geo-political entities, as already mentioned, were the Colony and Protectorate of Lagos, the Protectorate of Southern Nigeria, and the Protectorate of Northern ...
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Quantitative analysis of morphological changes in yeast colonies growing on solid medium: the eccentricity and Fourier indices
... Then, the objects of the images (yeast colonies) were differenti- ated from the ...Finally, the colony parameters (area, major and minor diameters) were calculated in ...over the ...
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A simple mathematical model that describes the growth of the area and the number of total and viable cells in yeast colonies
... on the Gompertz equation, to describe the growth of yeasts colonies on agar ...describes the colony growth, which previously needed two separate ones (linear increase of radius and of ...
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Morphology offers no clues to asexual vs sexual origin of small Acropora cervicornis (Scleractinia: Acroporidae) colonies
... investigate the frequency of fragmentation events leading to small, encrusting remnants of ...points’, colony disruption, and resulting ‘orphan ...(usually the tip) grew into contact with the ...
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The ant colony metaphor in continuous spaces using boundary search
... of the ant colony metaphor for continuous space optimiza- tion ...problems. The ant algortihm proposed works following the principle of the ant colony ap- proach, ...in ...
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The ant colony metaphor for multiple knapsack problem
... adapt the original AC system [4] so it can be used to solve non- ordering problems like the ...that the adapted AC system can solve MKP in an efficient ...system, the ants (agents) are not ...
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Parallel ACO algorithms for 2D Strip Packing
... pack the pieces in a larger rectangle, the strip, with a fixed width W and unlimited length, minimizing the required strip length; an important restriction is that the pieces have to be packed ...
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Decentralized multi-tasks distribution in heterogeneous robot teams by means of ant colony optimization and learning automata
... on the general problem of coordinating multiple ...addresses the self-election of hetero- geneous specialized tasks by autonomous ...where the robots themselves autonomously and in an individual ...
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A large accumulation of avian eggs from the Late Cretaceous of Patagonia (Argentina) reveals a novel nesting strategy in Mesozoic birds
... within the campus of the Universidad Nacional del Comahue, North of Neuque´n city, Argentina (Figure 1) and obtained permission from the MUCP to access their collections and to research this fossil ...
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Expression of the recombinant human granulocyte colony stimulating factor (rhg (rhG CSF) with zera in NT1 cells, and suppression of gene silencing by the p19 protein of tombusvirus
... 63 The digestion patterns with the restriction enzymes selected were based on a putative cassette of expression conformed by the CaMV35S Promoter, 5’-UTR TEV, p38, 3’-VSP ...However, the ...
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Observations on the founding of a new colony by Trigona cupira (Hymenoptera:Apidae) in Costa Rica
... ) The mating o f a stingless queen bee was observed for the first time by KERR and ,I(RAUSE (4) in MeliPona quadrifasciata quadrifasciata Le pe1etier in a nuptial flight of ...that the nuptial ...
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Double ant colony system to improve accessibility after a disaster
... minimizing the length of time required for both emergency road- way repair and relief distribution, as well as the related operating constraints, to develop a model for planning emergency repair and relief ...
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Multiobjective multicast routing with Ant Colony Optimization
... optimizes f(x). In general, there is no unique “best” solution but a set of solutions, none of which can be considered better than the others when all objectives are considered at the same time. This ...
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The life cycle and behavior of the social bee Lasioglossum (Dialictus) umbripenne (Hymenoptera: Halictidae)
... . The cells of workers and males measure ...length, the !atter with a mean of 9.5 mm. The necks of the cells ...into the neck for a distance of about 2 mm (Fig. 22) . The cells ...
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An improved ant colony algorithm for the job shop scheduling problem
... makes the Ant Colony Algorithms well suited for different kinds of scheduling ...solving the Job Shop Scheduling (JSS) Problem. After each cycle the Ant System applies a scheduler builder to ...
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