a taxonomist s view on classification

... This has received increasing attention over the last ten years Data Bases All taxonomists maintain some sort of data base One of the earliest, most comprehensive and best known is that established ... Toarcian of the Paris Basin (France) by means of ostracod associations 1261 CHRISTENSEN, B Ostracod zones and dispersion of Mesozoic fossils in the Scandinavian North Sea area 1269 Xu,M.-Y Ostracods ... Members I ADDRESSES AT THE OPENING SESSION NEALE, W Ostracoda -A historical perspective J T HANAI, A taxonomist s view on classification 17 11 TAXONOMY MCKENZIE, G A Recent Dutch microorganism (A J...

Ngày tải lên: 08/04/2014, 03:16

... Cancer and Environmental Risk Factors in New York State Smoking has effects that can both increase and decrease breast cancer risk On one hand, tobacco smoke contains chemicals that can cause ... is called a “dose-relationship” between lung cancer risk and smoking; the risk of lung cancer increases with the dose or amount a person smokes Most breast cancer studies have not seen a dose ... comparison and found no association between tobacco smoke exposure and breast cancer risk The breast undergoes a major period of development during adolescence, and studies in animals have demonstrated...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 01:20

... we consider this type of "integrated structure" as a possible lexical interface structure Research has recently begun on the possibility of using classical or advanced data base systems to store ... verification and indexing tools Natural dictionaries are usually accessed by lemmas (normal forms) Coded dictionaries of CAT systems, on the other hand, are accessed by morphs or by lexical units ... deal with the lexical data-base, others with the definition and use of specification formalisms ("static grammars") and verification tools Gran~atical knowledge processing Just as in current software...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 18:20

... richness slightly increased along the succession (12 species in recently BA areas vs 16 species in CNB) Some species (i.e Charaxes jasius, Coenonympha pamphilus and Melanargia galathea) were censused ... in nature conservation and have a broad range of conservation applications Model outputs that are sufficiently accurate can be used for making conservation decisions, and, when they are spatially ... of semi-natural grasslands, deep valleys and areas with low wind speed At the same time the dispersal distances between habitat patches are short, which means that a dense habitat network is needed...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 01:20

... consumption and transformation4 – some have adopted a purist, anti-consumerist approach Herbert disciplines himself by ‘never sampling anyone else, always [using] new sounds for each track’, and ... musicians the opportunity to articulate a personalised ‘aural’ history – an archive of sounds that can be employed to express specific musical and political statements As electronic musicians ... the instrument design), there are, of course, physical aspects of hardware samplers or computers running software samplers that impact these tools’ musical use: aspects such as memory, processing...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 13:20

... year of MS diagnosis and disease course The Disease Steps Scale (DSS) and Multiple Sclerosis Impact Scale (MSIS-29) assessed disease severity The DSS is an ordinal scale that asked the subjects ... indicate that fatigue has a greater impact on the individual The MFIS has been suggested as a useful measure of fatigue in MS research and clinical practice [30] Data analysis Data was analysed using ... BDI and each subscale of the SF36 and MFIS Chi-square analyses were performed between Exercisers and Non-exercisers for sex, disease course and disease severity Pearson 's bivariate correlations...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... program controlled the vibratory stimulation as well as sampling of force platform data Calculations and Statistical analysis Group results are given as medians with the first and third quartiles ... Procedure & assessments The patients were assessed as inpatients Demographic data were collected at admission The patients were asked to estimate their fall incidence during the past six months, and ... postural control in Parkinson 's disease, whereas medication does not Mov Disord 2006, 21:1088-1097 Magnusson M, Johansson K, Johansson BB: Sensory stimulation promotes normalization of postural control...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... year of MS diagnosis and disease course The Disease Steps Scale (DSS) and Multiple Sclerosis Impact Scale (MSIS-29) assessed disease severity The DSS is an ordinal scale that asked the subjects ... indicate that fatigue has a greater impact on the individual The MFIS has been suggested as a useful measure of fatigue in MS research and clinical practice [30] Data analysis Data was analysed using ... BDI and each subscale of the SF36 and MFIS Chi-square analyses were performed between Exercisers and Non-exercisers for sex, disease course and disease severity Pearson 's bivariate correlations...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 16:20

... total mass of paddy rice The head rice is composed of grains which maintain at least 75% of their length after milling Statistical analysis Data were analysed by statistical software Statgraphics® ... Immature kernels are usually thinner and defective, and are easily cracked during subsequent milling (Swamy and Bhattacharya 1980) In contrast, late harvested grain is often associated with a ... AG24 All data represent mean values of five replications The same superscripts in the same row indicates that the values are not significantly different (P>0.05) † harvested in ‘late wet season’...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 06:20

... velocities Rake and spatial and temporal rake variations scale amplitudes as a function of azimuth and take-off angle Rake spatial and temporal variations over a fault increase the spatial complexity ... several times larger than healing slip velocities Rake and spatial and temporal rake variations scale amplitudes as a function of azimuth and take-off angle Rake spatial and temporal variations ... Complicates shear-wave polarizations and modifies radiation pattern polarizations Complicates phase as a function of topographic length scale and near-surface velocities Table Seismic Wave Propagation...

Ngày tải lên: 29/06/2014, 09:20

... velocities Rake and spatial and temporal rake variations scale amplitudes as a function of azimuth and take-off angle Rake spatial and temporal variations over a fault increase the spatial complexity ... several times larger than healing slip velocities Rake and spatial and temporal rake variations scale amplitudes as a function of azimuth and take-off angle Rake spatial and temporal variations ... Complicates shear-wave polarizations and modifies radiation pattern polarizations Complicates phase as a function of topographic length scale and near-surface velocities Table Seismic Wave Propagation...

Ngày tải lên: 29/06/2014, 16:20

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Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 18:21

... -1 sea salt, the value decreased to 29 mNm (Grieve and Pitman, 1978) In sea salt solution, LABS reached the surface tension value to which spontaneous stomatal infiltration was observed In Araucaria ... well as near the sto- matal pore In contrast, on all cuticular surface of needles, LABS-sea water would induce a fast disappearance of tubular crystal of epicuticular waxes This would suggest a ... pollution in combination with sea water is more easily taken-up by the P halepensis Mill needles In fact, similar conditions of the synergistic action of LABS and sea salts occur in sea spray near...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 18:21

... variables, values per class increased regularly mean from class to class both for shoot classes and girth classes Thus, when the initial stool had more numerous and larger shoots, subsequent sprouts were ... methods should be analyzed during a whole rotation The same studied stand should also be coppiced with the same techniques for two or more rotations seasons Several observations are already possible ... numerous and showed greater growth This result is confirmed by the analysis con- ducted on individual characteristics of initial stools New-clump characteristics such as number of sprouts, mean and...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 23:22

... USA) Quantitative results were given as mean ± SD and statistical analysis was carried out by t-test P values less than 0.05 were considered as statistically significant Results Effects of siRNA ... Hela and Siha cells were analyzed by flow cytometry assay at 48 h after transfection (**P < 0.01) (B): Apoptosis of Hela and Siha cells was analyzed by flow cytometry assay at 48 h after transfection ... Membranes were stained with an enhanced chemiluminescence solution Band intensities are normalized to b-actin as a loading control Real-time qPCR assay QPCR was used to analyze mRNA expression...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:21

... present study a long acting oxytetracycline was given parenterally at one occasion, aiming to stress the pigs as little as possible Materials and methods Animals Seven Swedish Yorkshire castrates ... of SAS version 6.12 (SAS 1998) Pig and sampling day were used as main effects in the model Results are presented as least square means with standard errors Students t-test was used when means ... technical assistance of Bengt Pettersson and Sigbrit Mattsson This study was supported by grants from The Swedish Meat Producing Farmers R&D Program References Carson MC, Breslyn W: Simultaneous determination...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 15:20

... consists of an increase in HR and a modulation of the vascular tone, with vasodilatation of peripheral vessels and constriction of the vessels of the pulmonary vasculature to shunt blood away from ... cells responsible for postnatal vasculogenesis in physiological and pathological neovascularization Circ Res 1999, 85:221-228 Iwami Y, Masuda H, Asahara T: Endothelial progenitor cells: past, state ... intervals were tested by ANOVA The relationship between PB-EPCs changes from T0 to T1 and other variables at T1 was tested by regression analysis In all cases, p < 0.05 was considered significant...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 15:21

... primary human small airway epithelial cells (SAEC) Primary human small airway epithelial cells (SAEC) were treated with media alone (control) and various concentrations of CSE; a) control, b) CSE ... and appeared red Percentage of viable (white bars), apoptotic (grey bars) and necrotic/late apoptotic (black bars) determined by counting as described in Materials and Methods Results are mean ... their characteristic spindle-shaped morphology as is evident from figs c and d SAEC were shown to be more sensitive to CSE compared to transformed cell lines Results are mean of experiments ± SEM...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 15:21

... horseradish peroxidase (Dako, Santa Barbara, CA, USA), and bound complexes were detected using an enhanced chemiluminescence method Statistical analysis Statistical analysis of significance was ... Clonetics (San Diego, CA, USA) Cells were cultured according to the supplier 's instructions Passage number was kept to less than seven passages from original stocks SAEC were maintained in SAGM ... was assessed by three separate methods: LDH release assay, trypan blue exclusion method and double staining with acridine orange and ethidium bromide Lactate dehydrogenase assay LDH release, an...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 16:20

... using Statistica Six Sigma software (StatSoft, Krakow, Poland) All numerical data were expressed as mean values ± standard deviations, as median values or as proportions Continuous variables ... Abbreviations aCL: anticardiolipin antibodies; ANA: antinuclear antibodies; ALT: alanine aminotransferase; APS: antiphospholipid syndrome; AST: aspartate aminotransferase; CPK: creatine phosphokinase; ... for a noninvasive evaluation of coronary atherosclerosis and myocardial perfusion abnormalities, and enables the assessment of statin influence on coronary artery structural changes and heart function...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 17:22