Road verges provide alternative habitats for some, but not all, meadow plants

Squat lobster assemblages on seamounts differ from some, but not all, deepsea habitats of comparable depth

1 National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research, Wellington, New Zealand 2 Faculty of Science, Health & Education, The University of the Sunshine Coast, Maroochydore DC, Queensland, Australia 3 Centro de Estudios Avanzados de Blanes (CSIC), C. acc. Cala Sant Francesc, Blanes, Girona, Spain 4 Systématique, Adaptation et Evolution, UMR7138UPMC-IRD-MNHN-CNRS (URIRD148), Institut de Recherche ...

Prepregnancy care: improvements for some women but not for all!

Not all lactic acid bacteria are probiotics, ...but some are.

The WHO defines probiotics as: ‘live microorganisms, which when administered in adequate amounts confer a health benefit on the host’, a definition which implies that a beneficial health effect must be demonstrated in human subjects. In October 2009, the European Food Safety Agency (EFSA) issued scientific opinions concerning more than 500 health claim applications; all those concerning probiot...

Some (but not all) unattested determiners are unlearnable

A striking cross-linguistic generalisation about the semantics of determiners is that they never express nonconservative relations. To account for this one might hypothesise that the mechanisms underlying human language acquisition are not compatible with nonconservative determiner meanings. We stress that the crosslinguistic generalisation alone should not be taken as decisive evidence for thi...

Scale Changes Provide an Alternative Cue For the Discrimination of Heading, But Not Object Motion

BACKGROUND Understanding the dynamics of our surrounding environments is a task usually attributed to the detection of motion based on changes in luminance across space. Yet a number of other cues, both dynamic and static, have been shown to provide useful information about how we are moving and how objects around us move. One such cue, based on changes in spatial frequency, or scale, over time...