geometrical optics of some ostracod eyes

... Geometrical optics of some ostracod eyes J M 187 SCHORNIKOV,I The concept of cyclicity of morphogenesis E 195 KAESLER, L and FOSTER, W Ontogeny of Bradleya normani (Brady): R D shape analysis of landmarks ... the Gulf of Naples Fauna of 1894 The beginning of the twentieth century was marked by something of a pause until the late 1920’s and 1930’s saw a great expansion of interest as the pace of oil ... possibility of using the chemistry of the shell to determine certain characteristics of the palaeoenvironment Another aspect of recent work has been the examination of the form and function of the soft...

Ngày tải lên: 08/04/2014, 03:16

... SCC is an oncofetal antigen [39] The analysis of in vitro culture of amnion cells and amniotic membranes revealed no accumulation of SCC in the supernatant, and no mRNA expression of SCC was found ... Granulosa cell tumors Granulosa cells of ovarian follicles (member of the transforming growth factor-b family) Sertoli cells of male fetus, 140 kDa for regression of Müllerian ducts Cell cytoplasm ... Table Overview of selected studies on carbohydrate antigen 15-3 levels during normal pregnancy 16% above cut-off value SD, standard deviation; T, trimester Page of 10 Author/year of publication...

Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 06:20

... beam of primary electrons did not penetrate other cells, layer of cells on a sheet of aluminium were analysed All measurements were made using an X-ray take-off angle of 45°, a measuring time of ... (unpublished data) In the spring of 1993, work was begun to prepare the drought stress Wooden structures of between 4.3 and 4.5 m high were built to support sloping roofs of clear plastic (89% light ... development, foliar leaching, or redistribution of nutrients to other parts of the plant The good nutritional quality of the soil allows us to discount the 1st of these hypotheses Several other studies,...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 19:21

... decreased after 11 d All seedlings recovered 18 d after the onset of the experiment The patterns of g evolution at the constant temperature of 8.7°C and at a were throughout the experiment but the former ... d and then declined The shape of the curve is similar to that for transpiration Conclusions Initiation and development of current yr needles affected the results of gas exchange measurements The ... adequate sup(Nambiar et al., 1979) of soil water References Grossnickle S.C & Blake T.J (1985) Acclimation of cold-stored jack pine and white spruce seedlings: effect of low soil temperature on water...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 04:20

... rare anatomic feature The prevalence of extra-laryngeal branching of the non-recurrent nerve is unknown We present an example of triple anatomic variations of ILNs in the same patient, and also ... operations Anatomic variations of a recurrent laryngeal nerve (RLN) may threaten the safety of thyroid surgery and so a complete knowledge of RLN anatomy, including all of its variations, must be ... extra-laryngeal bifurcation of ILNs, right non-recurrent nerve and left SILAB Synchronicity of three variations of the ILN in one patient is an extremely rare coincidence The prevalence of non-recurrent...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 23:21

... Several staff members of the Department of Biological Sciences have been of tremendous help I thank the R.V Mudskipper crew of Salam, Rahmat and Ishak for skillful handling of the department boat, ... first burst of admiration at seeing corals growing on their native rock Charles Darwin iv Table of Contents Acknowledgements ii Table of Contents v Summary vii List of Tables ix List of Figures ... performed using the software STATISTICA 6.0 (StatSoft) To assess overlap between the intra- and interspecific variabilities of COI, relative abundances of sequences at each range of intraspecific...

Ngày tải lên: 26/11/2015, 12:47

... use of the serum to ascites albumin gradient (SAAG) in the differential diagnosis of ascites Much of his research and clinical effort has been in the developing of a non-invasive evaluation of ... rates of 1-12% Most of the results from these very interesting studies are published in abstract form and we are waiting the publication of the full articles A study by Kaiser, et al [31] of induction ... large numbers of patients with co-infection, fatty liver or cirrhosis However, the non-responder re-treatment trials are enriched with these patients as are the lead-in phase of the some of the maintenance...

Ngày tải lên: 02/11/2012, 09:48

... a series of more closely related sub-types Little is known about the earlier divergence of the six major genotypes of HCV, the origins of infection in humans and the underlying bases of the current ... sequences of variants recovered from different individuals and geographical regions has revealed the existence of six major genetic groups [1] Each of the six major genetic groups of HCV contains ... on genetic variation of HCV revealed a diversification of type HCV strains circulating in that region [8-12] There is no knowledge about the degree of genetic variability of HCV strains circulating...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 18:20

... 17 of the 294 (5.8%) anal swab samples (from 14 of 46 reptiles (30.4%), of 15 birds (6.7%) and of 233 mammals) (0.9%) (Table 3) Seventeen isolates were selected according to the biochemical profiles ... children visiting the Denver zoo in 1996 Table Distribution of the Salmonella isolates by the type of animal Class No of animals No of isolates (%) Birds Reptiles Mammals Total 15 46 233 294 (6.7) ... zookeepers and other humans [10] Evaluation of the environmental spread of Salmonella strains in the reptile department of the Antwerp Zoo found contamination of the floor, window benches, cage furniture,...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 20:23

... never exceeded 15% of the phenotypic variance The overall mean and the coefficient of variation, asymmetry and kurtosis of the distribution of the mean of the total number of bristles at generations ... The mean and the coefficient of variation, asymmetry and kurtosis of the distribution of the phenotypic variance of the total number of bristles on both sternites of the lines at generations 0, ... corresponding hierarchical analysis of variance Computation of environmental variance assumes a genetic correlation of one between the number of bristles on both sternites, as has often been reported (Caballero...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 22:22

... Strength 7of association page) Strength of association between cis-SNPs and transcript abundance Frequency histograms in bins of increasing order of magnitude of significance, with number of genes ... variance, often increasing power It may not improve the accuracy of estimation of sample means, and under some circumstances loess transformation markedly reduces the detection rate of differential ... right-hand side of Table shows a 20% decrease in the rate of detection of multimodal transcription, after loess transformation Only 50% of the NC multiple mode assignments (and just 32% of the CA)...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 07:21

... Calculation of the IBD matrices and REML estimation of variance components were obtained with the software package DMU [16] Maximising a sequence of restricted likelihoods over a grid of specific ... chromosomes show that the QTL on chromosome 20 has a higher effect at the end of the lactation than at the beginning and it is the contrary for the QTL detected on chromosome 27 For chromosome ... few parameters This study showed that the use of random regression models increased the power of detection of QTL that had a high effect for some parts of the lactation but not the whole period They...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 13:22

... attitudes of 12th grade students in listening lessons at a high school in Bac Ninh province” is the result of my own research in the fulfillment of the requirement for Degree of Master of Arts ... Aims of the study The research questions Significance of the study Scope of the study Method of the study Design of the study ... processes It ends with review of some studies related to language learning attitudes 1.1 Theoretical background of attitude 1.1.1 Definition of attitude In the line of researches and studies, the...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2015, 09:23

... However, there are still some problems in the use of peer feedback One of the major problems is that the quality of the responses is questioned Students often feel that their peers offer unspecific, ... university Most of the participants’ level of English proficiency is pre-intermediate level though in reality, some students have lower level Moreover, because of the curriculum of the university, ... LIST OF CHARTS ix PART A: INTRODUCTION 1 Rationale Aims of the study Scope of the study Method of the study Significance of...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2015, 10:07

... different ways of seating arrangement The Dean of the school, Assoc Prof Dr Le Vu Anh, was one of the first Vietnamese medical workers to study public health in the United States He has offered good ... one of the other arrangements should be chosen 23 CHAPTER II: METHODOLOGY The purpose of this study was to suggest applying some types of classroom seating arrangements at Hanoi School of Public ... most of them seldom performed this style of teaching (accounting for 70%) In terms of types of seating arrangement, no one arranged his/her classroom in modular or circular style Only three out of...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2015, 13:59

... 18 20 21 Conflict of Interest The authors have declared that no conflict of interest exists 22 References [Internet] The Office of Dietary Supplements - National Institutes of Health Promoting ... Strategic 23 Plan for the Office of Dietary Supplements 2004-2009 http://ods.od.nih.gov/pubs/SP10B.web.pdf [Internet] Washington, DC: Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Surgeon General ... transition: evidence of a beneficial effect of calcium, alcohol, and fruit and vegetable nutrients and of a detrimental effect of fatty acids Am J Clin Nutr 2004; 79:155-165 76 New SA: Intake of fruit and...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 11:10

... first flush load of urban surface runoff, Water Research, 32 (8), 2462-2470 Ebise S., Muraoka K and Otubo K (1982) Separation of run-off components by water quality, Proceedings of the 26th Japanese ... study of runoff characteristics of pollutants in combined sewer overflow J Korean Soc Environ Eng 18(10), 1147-1160 Lee J H and Bang K W (2000) Characterization of urban stormwater runoff, Water ... deposited in fine days strongly affected the runoff of VSS during a storm event (5) Origins of various ions were deduced by examining the temporal variations of ion composition As a result, it was indicated...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 09:08

... the washout of sludge from the reactor, and therefore, we investigated the effect of surface loading rate and aeration rate on the selection of well-settling sludge and the formation of aerobic ... influencing the selection of well-settling sludge because the sludge selection is one of the most important operational strategies that are essential to successful formation of aerobic granular sludge ... sludge with a diameter of 200 m in our previous study (Tsuneda et al., 2003), which makes practical application difficult The specific objective of this study is to reveal some factors greatly...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 10:15

... terms of their distributions with respect to a presumably natural class called numericals Supposing one of a certain group of characters often occurs as a neighbor to one of the other groups of ... the domain of the training set The tag set consisted of 209 part -of- speech tags 16 For the word model decision-tree, three of 69 questions concerned the character clusters and three of 63 the ... classifying words in such a way so as to minimizes the reduction of MI This idea is general in the clustering of any kind of list of items into hierarchical classes We therefore have adopted this...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 18:20