morphological and ethological adaptations of ostracoda to microhabitats in zostera beds

... Cologne Index of non-marine ostracods produced by Kempf in 1980 and now being expanded to include marine ostracods is a case in point There is no doubt that this area will continue to develop and ... helped us in innumerable ways We are deeply indebted to all of these people for their unstinting help and encouragement both during the symposium and in the editing of these proceedings Tetsuro ... theme of diversity and diversity indices In a penetrating study of the value and limitations of this method and the Walton and Simpson Indices commonly used, he took as an example a study of two...

Ngày tải lên: 08/04/2014, 03:16

... reliable during pregnancy than inhibin B Page of 10 Risk of bias We aimed to minimize risk of bias of individual studies by excluding all studies reporting tumor markers measured in pregnancies ... to 39.3 1.0 to 40 7.0 to 56 [7,11,51,52] Squamous cell carcinoma antigen

Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 06:20

... increasing metabolism needed to repair ozone damage could also cause increasing K concentrations (Schier, 1990) and Cape et al (1990) found that increasing K was due to a mechanism to maintain ... there was an increase in Ca influx into the cytoplasm of mesophyll cells where normally conifers are able to export this ion out of the cell Because, in Norway spruce, the increase in potassium ... showed increasing concentrations of potassium in all tissues, as ozone increased Such an increase was also observed in the epidermis and guard cells and to a lesser extent the mesophyll and endodermis...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 19:21

... 1982) Enclosing them in a cuvette causes errors in A, E and g Soil temperature affected gas exchange pine seedlings In general A and E were higher in warm than in cold soil At a changing soil temperature, ... recovered up to the level of other treatments Photosynthetic efficiency decreased to 50-60% of the initial values in all treatments The largest decrease occurred in seedlings at a changing soil temperature ... temperature resulted in a shock from which the seedlings did not recover until in the end of the experiment Conifer seedlings coming out of cold storage require a period of almost wk to acclimate physiologically...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 04:20

... variations The coincidence of a right non-recurrent ILN and bilateral bifurcation of both nerves is a very interesting feature SILAB is a rare additional finding as a third anatomic variation in the same ... terminal division of a non-recurrent ILN is an extremely unusual anatomic finding Two anatomic variations have occurred in the same nerve, like “the variation of the variation” Introduction The inferior ... structure in thyroid 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...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 23:21

... use of the COI barcode becomes a standard practice among coral scientists The increasing ease and falling cost of DNA sequencing has not only generated interest in the barcoding of the Scleractinia—reconstructions ... of Salam, Rahmat and Ishak for skillful handling of the department boat, and I am also grateful to Latiff for offering help in many ways Kelvin Lim kindly facilitated my access to the coral collection ... jellyfish and hydrozoans) using a dataset of 685 sequences from 283 species Variation within and among species was found to be much lower in Porifera and Anthozoa (containing Scleractinia) compared to...

Ngày tải lên: 26/11/2015, 12:47

... results of RENEW trial of induction dosing using pegylated alpha 2b plus ribavirin in 650 interferon alpha 2b plus ribavirin non-responders were less encouraging The SVR to 0.5µg/kg, 1.5µg/kg and ... 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 liver ... overall and 27 % in AA compared to 41% in non-AA This study mimics the situation in clinical practice in which failure during therapy is followed by the decision to treat with higher dose or to stop...

Ngày tải lên: 02/11/2012, 09:48

... Pestova TV, Shatsky IN, Fletcher SP, Jackson RJ, Hellen CUT: A prokaryotic-like mode of cytoplasmic eukaryotic ribosome binging to the initiation codon during internal translation initiation of ... 1a strains (Fig 1A, middle) Interestingly, type HCV strains isolated in Bolivia, Colombia and some of the Uruguayan strains not clustered together with major type sub-types (1a and 1b) Instead, ... 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 in Bolivia and Colombia This study aimed to elucidate...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 18:20

... plates were incubated for 18 h at 35oC, and the zones of inhibition were interpreted by the guideline of the National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards (NCCLS, 1990) Serotyping Fifteen ... infrequent, zoo visitors and zookeepers are at risk of infection from animal carriers The purpose of this research was to ascertain the rate of Salmonella spp rate in zoo animals at Seoul Grand ... were stored in 󰠏20oC for a year ml aliquots of cultured buffered peptone water were inoculated onto Mueller-Hinton (Oxoid, UK) agar plates with using a sterilized swab, followed by placing antibiotic...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 20:23

... segregating loci affecting bristle number can be assumed to be initially in linkage equilibrium Furthermore, losses of lines during the period of inbreeding can be considered to occur at random ... Consider a set ofI independent lines The phenotypic variance of the trait in the i th line is V and ; , the mean and the variance of the distribution of the variances of the lines are V and V(1; ), ... brother-sister matings, and refer to the evolution of the between- and within-line variance of a quantitative trait In such analyses, the between-line variance, in the absence of maternal effects,...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 22:22

... component to much of this variation that is due both to cis-acting and trans-acting factors, and frequently more than 25% of the transcriptional variance can be attributed to single regulatory QTLs ... clustering of abundance of all transcripts in NC and CA samples The heat map indicates relatively high abundance in magenta and low abundance in blue, with each row corresponding to one gene and ... numerous issues of ascertainment bias that remain to be addressed There appears to be a slight excess of minor TACs in the range of 0.05 to 0.1 in both populations, but this may be a result of a strong...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 07:21

... proposed to use a non-linear function to model individual production curves in dairy cattle The parameters of this function have biological interpretation in terms of peak of production and persistency, ... in each part of the time period Analysis of the protein yield data in dairy cattle confirmed these results since QTL with high effect at the beginning or the end of the lactation and very low in ... and was assumed to be about 20% of the total genetic variance In the second scenario, an initially large effect declined gradually, and the effect was minimal in the second half of the time period...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 13:22

... covering four basic skills in English learning, including reading, speaking, listening and writing Consequently, listening and speaking are likely to be ignored and neglected during their learning ... process of listening to the message without interpreting and responding to the text while listening comprehension is a process including the meaningful interactive activity to understand the ... receiving what the speaker actually says, constructing and representing meaning, negotiating meaning with the speaker and responding, and creating meaning through involvement, imagination and empathy...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2015, 09:23

... deciding a topic, brainstorming ideas, outlining, etc (2) Composing/drafting: In this stage, the writers actual writing and refining of their sentences and paragraphs (3) Revising: In this stage, the ... stages in writing: (1) prewriting, (2) composing/drafting, (3) revising, and (4) editing (1) Prewriting: Prewriting includes anything done by the writer before he writes a draft: deciding a topic, ... reading, listening, speaking and writing However, not many students like writing and are able to write well Le (2008), when investigating the teaching and learning English among high schools in...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2015, 10:07

... the exchange of information, making decisions, and meeting The discussion style has similar teamwork style characteristics such as the sharing of information and brainstorming Instructors also allocate ... increasingly becoming popular and is also referred to as collaborative learning The activities involved with teamwork are intergroup work, shared discovery, brainstorming, and games Therefore, the instructor ... arrangement is some students are going to have to sit in the corners and in the back of the room In these locations in the classroom students participate and interact less and more behavioral problems...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2015, 13:59

... found to have concomitant adverse effects on bone health [9-13] including the increasing use of SSRIs for the treatment of depression [14-17] and contraceptives [18] Since intentional and unintentional ... study per-protocol (PP) For Plan 2, a total of 274 S‟s were invited to complete a bone density test and to have the study components explained to them prior to enrolling for the study Of these, ... of bone in both sexes of 1% [52] which is accelerated to 2% for up to 14 years in women around the age of menopause [53] In men, a small loss is detected in 40-year olds [45] that increases to...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 11:10

... basin investigated in this study The river is a tributary of Niyodo River and is located in Ino town, the central part of Kochi prefecture, Japan The area of watershed is 14.7 km2 and the mainstream ... 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 that NO3-, SO42- and K+ were mainly ... surface soil layer of river basins and carried by subsurface runoff To analyze the change in ion composition accompanied with the increase of flow rate, the following index is defined RPI = ([A]/[Cl])P...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 09:08

... factor influencing the sludge selection in an SBR (McSwain et al., 2004a) Generally, surface loading rate (equal to liquid linear velocity at a sludge settling zone) and aeration rate in continuous ... formation of aerobic granular sludge was investigated MATERIALS AND METHODS Reactor Configuration In this study, AUFB reactors with a working volume of 13.8 L (including a gas-solid separator), an internal ... granulation in a continuous-flow reactor Both surface loading and aeration rates affect the selection of well-settling sludge and the formation of aerobic granular sludge By setting and controlling adequate...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 10:15

... groups of characters, and supposing characters are clustered and organized in a hierarchical fashion, then it is possible to refer to such groupings by pointing ~Other sorts found in ordinary ... models of word clustering (Brown et al 1992) to obtain hierarchical clusters of words by classifying words in such a way so as to minimizes the reduction of MI This idea is general in the clustering ... the training and test sentences were taken The analyzer was trained for an incrementally enlarged set of training data using or not using character clustering 15 Table shows results obtained from...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 18:20