Southern rockhopper penguins (Eudyptes chrysocome chrysocome) have a strongly synchronised breeding cycle with a fixed pattern of nest attendance for males and females. We studied leucocyte profiles and the development of granulocyte/lymphocyte (G/L) ratios as an indicator of stress. Variation in G/L ratios were related to sex and breeding stage, but not individual body condition. G/L ratios we...

A set of experiments are designed to evaluate and compare the performances of three well known blind source separation algorithms in this paper. The specific algorithms studied are two group of neural networks algorithms, Bell and Sejnowski’s infomax algorithm and Hyvärinen’s fixed-point family, and J. F. Cardoso’s joint approxomate diagonalization of eigen-matrices algorithm. In this paper, th...

The ratio of dissolved fixed inorganic nitrogen to soluble inorganic phosphate (N:P) in the ocean interior is relatively constant, averaging approximately 16 : 1 by atoms. In contrast, the ratio of these two elements spans more than six orders of magnitude in lakes and other aquatic environments. To understand the factors influencing N:P ratios in aquatic environments, we analyzed 111 observati...

Parton luminosities are convenient for estimating how the physics potential of Large Hadron Collider experiments depends on the energy of the proton beams. I present parton luminosities, ratios of parton luminosities, and contours of fixed parton luminosity for gg, ud̄, and qq interactions over the energy range relevant to the Large Hadron Collider, along with example analyses for specific proce...

The use of a shroud around the rotor of a wind turbine has been known to augment the airflow through the rotor plane and hence result in improved performance. This work uses Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) to assess the validity of several simple theories which attempt to extend Betz theory to shrouded turbines. Two CFD models are employed and compared to predictions of previously published ...

BACKGROUND The prognostic effect of B-cell-specific Moloney leukemia virus insertion site 1 (Bmi-1) in patients with nonsmall cell lung cancer (NSCLC) remains controversial. We thus performed a meta-analysis to reveal the correlation between Bmi-1 with clinical features and overall survival (OS) in NSCLC. METHODS Relevant studies were searched through PubMed, Embase, and Web of Science. Poole...

Abstract. Phytoplankton growth, and hence biomass, responds to variations in light nutrient availability the near-surface ocean. A wide variety of models have been developed capture variable chlorophyll : carbon ratios due photoacclimation, i.e. dynamic physiological response phytoplankton varying availability. Although photoacclimation tested mostly against laboratory results, their applicatio...

B7 homolog 4 (B7-H4) has been recently reported to be a prognostic marker in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) in some studies. However, the results remained conflicting. Thus, we aimed to comprehensively assess the association between B7-H4 expression and prognosis of NSCLC patients by performing a meta-analysis. Relevant publications were thoroughly searched of PubMed, Embase, Web of Science...

The accounting ratios and published financial information serve as a critical tool for investors, creditors, other stakeholders to ascertain companies' profitability, control, status, which may significantly impact the Stock returns performance on exchanges. This paper aims examine whether crucial affects price of paint companies in India. In this paper, nine-years (2012-2020) such asset, equit...