A simplified method for conducting ecological studies of land snail communities in urban landscapes

... study of land snail communities is probably hampered by the lack of an easy method that wou ld allow ecological comparisons. In fact, land snail inventories have involved various methods that were primarily ... Tapko • Benoit Fontaine A simplified method for conducting ecological studies of land snail communities in urban landscapes Received: 8 Oct...

Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2014, 20:14

... 252-0816, Japan Email: Tomoya Kitayama - tomoyan@sfc.keio.ac.jp; Ayako Kinoshita - ayakosan@sfc.keio.ac.jp; Masahiro Sugimoto - msugi@sfc.keio.ac.jp; Yoichi Nakayama* - ynakayam@sfc.keio.ac.jp; Masaru ... Medical Modelling Open Access Research A simplified method for power-law modelling of metabolic pathways from time-course data and steady-state flux profiles Tomoya Kitayama †1...

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... May 2001) Abstract – A sampling-based method for estimating the accuracy of estimated breeding values using an animal model is presented. Empirical variances of true and estimated breeding values were ... convergence can not be achieved in a reasonable time for very large data files. Two advantages of the method are that a) it is applicable to any model (animal, sire, mult...

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... the dynamic range ∆λ 1 . The eigenvalue variation is not necessarily linear, but the results obtained in this case can be generalized. This type of variation has also the advantage of being the ... special case of a piecewise linear variation of the autocorre- lation matrix eigenvalues. Although this model is very sim- ple, it contains all the essential information related to the...

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... A special thanks to Sonja Ali, who assists us in getting the words out by managing our marketing communications and our speaking and training engagements. And to Ana Hicks for her considerable ... viewpoint? And how does this focus make a difference in the design and operation of a business? As individuals, all of us have thousands of needs and wants, ranging from the essent...

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... needs and not on customer profiles. Customer profiles are ingrained as a marketing tool, and companies have grown comfortable focusing on customer-based demographic and behavioral profiling variables. ... vision for the com- 8 Part One ❘ The Era of Collaborative Business A special thanks to Sonja Ali, who assists us in getting the words out by managing our marketing communications a...

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... lacca- se is also found in numerous other woody plants including Aesculus sp., Prunus persica, Acer pseudoplatanus and many species of the Anacardiaceae family, and in a ... that the allergic skin reaction of humans to quin-urushiol is still treated as a serious disease in China. Evolutionarily, laccase and its substrates seem to be an ada...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 03:24

... prediction (BLUP) of breeding values if marker data are available on a QTL. A rapid method for computing the inverse of a gametic relationship matrix for a marked QTL without building G itself is ... dramatically decreases as n increases. The simulated data summarized in Table IV clearly show that as the number of individuals in the pedigree increases, the percentage...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 18:21

... Katayama S, Tomaru Y, Kasukawa T, Waki K, Nakanishi M, Nakamura M, Nishida H, Yap CC, Suzuki M, Kawai J, Suzuki H, Carninci P, Hayashizaki Y, Wells C, Frith M, Ravasi T, Pang KC, Hallinan J, Mattick ... displacement (AAPD), defined as the average offset of overlapping sense and antisense products at a given locus. Indeed, all the known Ciona miRs have AAPD scores of 0, while ran- dom...

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