survival of the fittest

... hit Eurasia at the end of the Pleistocene The Moderns managed to survive the onslaught of the LGM With the subsequent global warming the world saw the rise of a hominid that had the intelligence ... of ı these as the latest dates of Neanderthal survival Even so, we can agree that the last Neanderthal populations probably became extinct before the onset of the LGM, at some point towards the ... transmission The net effect is the same – bearers of Mode colonised the largest areas of the planet and bearers of Mode the smallest The sobering conclusion that I derive is that it has been the peripheral...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 07:20

... against them either because they have the shape of testicles, or because they resemble the gates of hell, for they alone have no hinges, or again because they spoil, or because they resemble the ... its roots to Moses’ brother Aaron, the original high priest Levites are descendants of the tribe of Levi, the traditional princes of the temple Today, descendants of the other twelve tribes are ... because of constriction in the extremities, the body signals the kidneys to offload some of the extra fluid But that theory doesn’t fully explain the phenomenon, especially in light of recent...

Ngày tải lên: 20/07/2014, 20:56

... - excluding us, of course - has a conflict of interest Either they have loans to subsidiaries of the company or officers of the bank are also directors of the company We are the only bank owning ... accepted the exchange offer Of those two, the ‘ringleader,’ a Dr Lauder, holds $300,000 of the Notes The other fellow has $150,000." “Now here is the problem, the Penn Central's board of directors ... way, there is another story, which begins on a Wednesday afternoon in December of 1971 Survival of the Penn Central Company The Phone Call Harry Volk, President and CEO of the Union Bank of California...

Ngày tải lên: 27/07/2014, 23:12

... if the soil microorganisms have good health They supply the protoplasm compounds for every living organism above the ground The basis of their health is the availability of the elements of the ... crust of the Earth which is the basic food supply of microorganisms and hence of all of us P OUR 100 % JUNK FOOD SUPPLY IS DESTROYING US Virtually all of the subsoil and most of the topsoil of the ... evaluation of the synthesis For this reason, it seemed advisable to include a review of previous studies in the various disciplines in the form of a few lines distilling the essence of their findings Of...

Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 05:20

... describe the cancer survival model The resulting estimates of cancer deaths by site are compared with the Globocan estimates in Section The use of the survival model to estimate cancer incidence is then ... Because the relative survival is adjusted for the expected survival, based on the general mortality experience of the population, the relative interval survival ( RIS ) was chosen to be modelled Mathematically, ... us take the case of liver cancer There were 49 cases of liver cancer in males, at the start of follow-up Among them, 37 individuals died during the first year of follow-up After that, the numbers...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 16:21

... contrast to that of carnivores, is the time they spend eating, the volume of food they consume, and the consequent volume of faeces they produce They spend the greater part of their lives eating, ... as the seeds start to germinate the cockatoos move in They walk down a row of emerging seedlings, pull them out of the ground, eat just the base of the new stem, and then discard them Once the ... outgrowths of their stomachs rather than their colons; at the beginning rather than the end of their alimentary tract There the microbes the same as those in hind-gut fermenters: digest otherwise...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 19:20

... patients Standard ratios represent the peak area of each mgÆmL)1 standard compared with the peak area of the internal standard (B) Summary of the range of the total bile acid concentrations found ... al the Kd value The log of the [Ca2+] free (x-axis) is plotted against the log of bound ⁄ free dye {(R ) Rmin) ⁄ (Rmax ) R)} (F2 ⁄ F2 max) (y-axis) This can then be used to calculate Kd of the ... number of cells on the y-axis against the level of fluorescence (FL3-H) on the x-axis, with the different stages of the cell cycle highlighted [sub-G1 (apoptotic), G1, S and G2–M] The percentage figures...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 10:21

... sponsored the book [GTM] One of the contributions of the Carnegie Foundation has been to advocate a re-thinking of the way we evaluate professors and reward them Another is to consider the service ... think of about almost any topic you can think of It is one of the more recreational parts of the job 2.16 Your Role in The Professional Societies I have a rather stodgy view in this matter The professional ... their classes Others are quite serious—nearly morose Still other teachers make the learning process a group activity; they are more the guide on the side” than the “sage on the stage.” All of...

Ngày tải lên: 12/05/2014, 03:12

... into them and other wooden objects The triumph of the Catawba Nation rests in its pottery tradition, which is a cultural treasure of tremendous worth Of all the tribes east of the Pueblo only the ... end of the nineteenth century The potters have entered a period where they appreciate the professional aspects of their craft Indeed, many are busy taking Catawba pottery into the realm of art They ... worked together Ervin gathered the wood and burned the pottery The Gordons also kept a sign on the road in front of their home and shared the proceeds from the sales of their work (Georgia Harris,...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 12:48

... systematic review of the literature After exclusion of duplicates, the abstracts of all citations were reviewed Of these, 104 citations concerning the relationship between quality of life and survival ... relative risk of dying of 1.90 (95% CI = 1.10-3.26) [78] The authors speculated that the influence of cognitive functioning on survival in these patients might be related to the use of alcohol In ... of survival They reported that an increase of 10 points in the baseline fatigue score corresponded to a 17% reduction in the likelihood of survival [79] Finally, as Mehanna et al suggested, the...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... studies have investigated the influence of the overall level of genomic DNA methylation on CM prognosis Accordingly, we investigated whether the extent of methylation of the LINE-1 repetitive elements ... examined Survival time was calculated in months from the date of stage IIIC diagnosis until the date of death According with the specific goals of the analysis, we did not classify the deaths ... for the differing survival patterns of CM patients of identical clinico-pathological stage of disease The study was conducted on a series of 42 consecutive stage IIIC CM patients for whom the...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... 2004 at the Cancer Center of Sun Yat-Sen University All the patients underwent radical surgery, and none of them had undergone either chemotherapy or radiotherapy before the collection of the samples ... Committee of our institution Patients were informed of the investigational nature of the study and provided their written informed consent The count of tryptase-positive mast cells in the cancer ... MCCstroma, the count of tryptase-positive mast cells in the cancer stroma of the primary colon tumor; MCCadjacent, the count of tryptase-positive mast cells in the normal mucosa adjacent to the colon...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... studies have investigated the influence of the overall level of genomic DNA methylation on CM prognosis Accordingly, we investigated whether the extent of methylation of the LINE-1 repetitive elements ... examined Survival time was calculated in months from the date of stage IIIC diagnosis until the date of death According with the specific goals of the analysis, we did not classify the deaths ... for the differing survival patterns of CM patients of identical clinico-pathological stage of disease The study was conducted on a series of 42 consecutive stage IIIC CM patients for whom the...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 03:20

... 2004 at the Cancer Center of Sun Yat-Sen University All the patients underwent radical surgery, and none of them had undergone either chemotherapy or radiotherapy before the collection of the samples ... Committee of our institution Patients were informed of the investigational nature of the study and provided their written informed consent The count of tryptase-positive mast cells in the cancer ... MCCstroma, the count of tryptase-positive mast cells in the cancer stroma of the primary colon tumor; MCCadjacent, the count of tryptase-positive mast cells in the normal mucosa adjacent to the colon...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 03:20

... only the variation of blood levels of CA125 and the free disease interval from the finalization of the first line chemotherapy were predictive of survival, while the other variables, including the ... evaluated the relationship between the degree of elevation of preoperative CA125 and length of survival in ovarian cancer Decreased length of survival was found to be related to the degree of elevation ... assess the prognostic value of the CA125 change after the first and the second courses of induction chemotherapy CA125 determination of all patients was carried out before each cycle of chemotherapy...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 07:20

... >75%).Examples of tumors with low AR expression are visualized in the left panels and tumors with high expression in the right panels Bars in the middle represent the distribution of positive cases ... prognostic value within the entire cohort, reduced AR expression was an independent predictor of decreased OCSS in serous tumors The main limitation of this study is the absence of data on residual ... essential component of EOC biomarker studies[15] These findings further highlight the heterogeneity of ovarian cancer, which should not be considered as a single disease, but rather several distinct...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 07:20

... In other words, the benefit of HIV prevented was canceled out by the harm of uninfected child deaths caused by other infectious diseases (Figure 3) These results are not reassuring about the ... has profound social ramifications of stigma, familial loss and deterioration of maternal health, all of which may affect the well-being of the uninfected children [48] It also appears that there ... are breastfed for the typical duration of 18 months will acquire HIV through breastfeeding [20] These rates, which use the number of infants born to HIVinfected mothers as the denominator, have...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 08:20

... evaluate the effect of stocking biomass of the two sizes of M lyrata on growth performance and survival to enhance the production and profit of cultivation The other parameters within the culture ... highest net profit and investment return of the treatment T3 The stocking biomass of 0.2 kg.m2 therefore, was recommended to maximize profit of the clam cultivation Establishment of commercial ... reducing the pressure of declining wild population of clams That is one of the important contributions of the project towards Better Aquaculture Practices Effects of stocking biomass on growth, survival...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 05:20

... of variance of wind speed and direction) and reduce the odor plume of the bird nesting within (Conover 2007) Although nest depredation often is a function of visual detection of the nest or the ... response was the basis for estimating the probability of daily nest survival (i.e., DSR of nests) We included three random effect statements to model the hierarchical structure of the data set ... fates, on the 5,625-km study area in the Wind River Basin in central Wyoming, USA bDates listed are for the initiation of the first nest (i.e., First) and the hatching or depredation of the last...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 17:20

... evaluate the effect of stocking biomass of the two sizes of M lyrata on growth performance and survival to enhance the production and profit of cultivation The other parameters within the culture system ... The estimation of the economic benefit of clam cultured in the intertidal areas is showed in table The net profit is calculated based on the output cost and input cost and price of the clam The ... Microsoft Office EXCEL for Window Results and discussions 3.1 The environment conditions of the experiments The experiment site was situated in the intertidal areas near the estuary where the clams...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 12:20