Natural history notes on three bat species

Notes on natural inflation

In the so-called natural inflation, an axion-like inflaton is assumed to have a cosine-type periodic potential. This is not the case in a very simple model in which the axion-like inflaton is coupled to an SU(N) (or other) pure Yang-Mills, at least in the large N limit as pointed out by Witten. It has a multi-valued potential, which is effectively quadratic, i.e., there is only a mass term in t...

Notes on Natural Logic Notes for PHIL370

A tree is a structure T = (T,E), where T is a nonempty set whose elements are called nodes and E is a relation on T , E ⊆ T × T , called the immediate edge relation, satisfying the following conditions: for all nodes, n, n′,m ∈ T , • Every node has a unique predecessor: If nEm and n′Em, then n = n′, • There are no cycles: If (n1, . . . , nk) is a sequence of nodes where for each i = 1, . . . , ...

Species richness and structure of three Neotropical bat assemblages

We compared the assemblages of phyllostomid bats in three Neotropical rainforests with respect to species richness and assemblage structure and suggested a method to validate estimates of species richness for Neotropical bat assemblages based on mist-netting data. The fully inventoried bat assemblage at La Selva Biological Station (LS, 100 m elevation) in Costa Rica was used as a reference site...

Notes on Dictyuchus species (Stramenopila, Oomycetes) from Anzali lagoon, Iran

Nine Dictyuchus isolates were obtained from floating and decaying twigs and leaves in Anzali lagoon, Anzali County, Guilan province, Iran. They are interestingly distinguished from current Dictyuchus species by the presence of dictyoid and achlyoid type of zoospore discharge, abundant fusiform and spherical gemma, and the absence of any sexual apparatus. In addition, phylogene...

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