Pathogens have developed multiple strategies that allow them to exploit host resources and resist the immune response.To study how Drosophila flies deal with infectious diseases in a natural context, we investigated the interactions between Drosophila and a newly identified entomopathogen, Pseudomonas entomophila.Flies orally infected with P.entomo
Revenue optimization is a main consideration in auction design.While it is a first-order objective in most auction settings, that is not the case for rebate auctions that use monetary rewards to incentivize auction participants to perform a task, where revenue optimization is secondary to successful task completion.This paper considers the case of
The marine waters around the Azores archipelago have been studied for quite a long time.Deeper areas, however, were Potty historically poorly accessible and only now previously unreported species are recorded regularly.Our monitoring efforts of the Azorean ichthyofauna have recently revealed two cases of indirect evidence of the presence of a cooki