On 2010 January 18 and 22, two earthquakes of MW 5.3 and 5.2, respectively, occurred near the town of Efpalio on the western Gulf of Corinth. We performed a shear wave splitting analysis using the cross-correlation method and calculated VP/VS ratios for events that occurred in the epicentral area of the Efpalio earthquakes, between 2009 January and 2010 December. The data analysis revealed thep…

Whiteflies are important agricultural insect pests, whose evolutionary success is related to a long-term association with a bacterial endosymbiont, Candidatus Portieraaleyrodidarum. To completely characterize this endosymbiont clade, we sequenced the genomes of three new Portiera strains covering the two extant whitefly subfamilies. Using endosymbiont and mitochondrial sequences we …

Ascorbic acid (AsA) is an important antioxidant in plants and an essential vitamin for humans. Extending the study of AsA-related genes from Arabidopsis thaliana to Brassica rapa could she dlight on the evolution of AsA in plants and inform crop breeding. In this study,we conducted whole - genomeannotation, molecular-evolution and gene - expression analyses of all known AsA - relatedgenes in B.…

Thousands of ELT professionals attend conferences around the world each year and such activity is assumed to make a positive contribution to these individuals’ professional development and work. Evidence of what exactly those benefits are is, though, scarce, and this article reports a study seeking to identify, from delegates’ own perspectives, the impact that attending conferences has. Ove…

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Although unfashionable today, R.D. Laing was one of the most influential psychiatrists of the twentieth century, an international countercultural guru, and an outspoken critic of conventional psychiatry whose theories were embraced by the New Left. The enthusiasm with which his theories of the dynamics of the family and the psychogenesis of mental illness were taken up by many feminists and fem…

Angela Carter’s political allegiances would seem to align her with the utopian, yet in the view of most critics, her relation to utopia is somewhat fraught. Utilizing Russell Jacoby’s distinction between blueprint and iconoclastic utopianism, this essay reexamines Carter’s work to show that her writing consistently negates any blueprint for an ideal society yet engages with the historica…

Thousands of ELT professionals attend conferences around the world each year and such activity is assumed to make a positive contribution to these individuals’ professional development and work. Evidence of what exactly those benefits are is, though, scarce, and this article reports a study seeking to identify, from delegates’ own perspectives, the impact that attending conferences has. Ove…

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