Turtles have been known since the Upper Triassic (210Myr old); however, fossils recording the first steps of turtle evolution are scarce and often fragmentary. As a consequence, one of the main questions is whether living turtles (Testudines) originated during the Late Triassic (210Myr old) or during the Middle to Late Jurassic (ca 160Myr old). The discovery of the new fossil turtle, Condorchel...

Ectotherms can attain preferred body temperatures by selecting specific temperature microhabitats within a varied thermal environment. The side-blotched lizard, Uta stansburiana may employ microhabitat selection to thermoregulate behaviorally. It is unknown to what degree habitat structural complexity provides thermal microhabitats for thermoregulation. Thermal microhabitat structure, lizard te...

University of Tampere submitted runs for Genomics Track ad hoc retrieval task. The first run (uta05a) was an automatic and the second (uta05i) an interactive run. The uta05a queries were constructed by using the original topic terms as query keys. The uta05a queries served as a baseline for the uta05i queries which were constructed by expanding the uta05a queries with synonyms for the topic gen...

Background/Aims: Periconceptional folate has a preventive effect not only on neural tube defects, but possibly also on other birth defects such as urinary tract anomalies (UTA), orofacial clefts and conotruncal heart defects. Folate metabolism gene variants are therefore being investigated as potential susceptibility factors. Methods: We assessed the methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) ...

0957-4174/$ see front matter 2011 Elsevier Ltd. A doi:10.1016/j.eswa.2011.02.065 ⇑ Corresponding author. Tel.: +98 21 82883388. E-mail address: [email protected] (S.E. Khade In this paper, a system based on artificial neural networks (ANNs) was designed to diagnose different types of fault in a gearbox. An experimental set of data was used to verify the effectiveness and accuracy of the prop...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the potential value of biophysical and biochemical markers at 30-34 weeks' gestation in the prediction of adverse perinatal outcome. METHODS This was a screening study in 8268 singleton pregnancies at 30-34 weeks' gestation. Estimated fetal weight (EFW), uterine artery (UtA) pulsatility index (PI), umbilical artery (UA) PI, fetal middle cerebral artery (MCA) PI, mean ...

nowadays multicriteria decision making (mcdm) methods are a useful tool for investigating natural resources and toaddress problems related to hydro systems. the goal of this research was to assess the daliri standardization method(dsm) to prioritize and make selections for application to mcdm. and to compare the dsm method with the utilityadditive (uta) method. the (dsm) method, unlike the (uta...

Gillian Lê ([email protected]) Tolib Mirzoev ([email protected]) Marsha Orgill ([email protected]) Ermin Erasmus ([email protected]) Uta Lehmann ([email protected]) Stephen Okeyo ([email protected]) Jane Goudge ([email protected]) Stephen Maluka ([email protected]) Benjamin Uzochukwu ([email protected]) Moses Aikins ([email protected]) Don de Savigny (d.d...

The formation of populous secondary star cluster systems is a widespread phenomenon in mergers of gas-rich galaxies. Many, if not most, of those clusters are massive and compact enough to be young globular clusters (GCs). GC systems in most E/S0 galaxies feature bimodal color distributions with a fairly universal blue peak similar to the blue peak of halo GCs in the Milky Way (MW) and M31, and ...