Rocky intertidal organisms are facing pronounced fluctuations in environmental conditions even at small spatial and temporal scales. This heterogeneous habitat is a proper model system to investigate effects of physical parameters and their interactions on physiological performances of marine organisms. In the intertidal zone (especially in tidal pools), the temperature and salinity usually inc...

Labeo rohita, Gibelion catla, Cirrhinus mrigala, Ctenopharyngodon idella and Hypophthalmichthys molitrix were grown together for 365 days in triplicate ponds. Six iso-caloric feeds having varying protein levels i.e. 22, 24, 26, 28, 30 and 32% were prepared and supplemented to fish at 2% fish weight daily. Significantly, higher final average weight (793 ± 197 g) and total length gain (398 ± 40 m...

Abstract Multi-accent environments offer rich but inconsistent language input, as words are produced differently across accents. The current study examined, in two experiments, whether multi-accent variability affects infants’ ability to learn and toddlers’ prior experience with accents modulates learning. In Experiment 1, two-and-a-half-year-old Norwegian toddlers were exposed, their kindergar...

collection, the patient was started on intravenous cefotaxime and transferred back to Torbay for further care. He received a total of three weeks of intravenous antibiotics and, at follow up five weeks following surgery, his computed tomogram had returned to normal and he was symptom free. During his recovery, he recalled an incident two years previously when he had been struck on the head whil...

Still's disease (juvenile chronic polyarthritis) differs markedly from adult rheumatoid arthritis in the relative incidence of rheumatoid factor. The sheep cell agglutination test was found to be positive in only 11 to 13 per cent. of Still's disease patients compared with 70 to 80 per cent. of affected adults (Bywaters, Carter, and Scott, 1959; Laaksonen, 1966). Similarly, using the sensitive ...

The methods, languages and tools for developing a smart card system share some characteristics with those of the embedded domain. Until recently, smart card programs were written in hand coded native assembly language. All programs (drivers, operating system, libraries, applications) were developed as a monolithic piece of code burned in the smart card ROM. Therefore, not only are traditional c...

To protect the non-structural components in critical facilities (such as hospitals), focusing in particular on the key sensitive components on the floor of a room, the combined solution of stiffening the structure and isolating the floor is proposed. One-story and three-story stiffened shear frames were considered as examples for the purpose of conducting different analyses. Models for each ana...

In this paper we describe a generalized classification method for HMM-based speech recognition systems, that uses free energy as a discriminant function rather than conventional probabilities. The discriminant function incorporates a single adjustable temperature parameter T. The computation of free energy can be motivated using an entropy regularization, where the entropy grows monotonically w...

Need to avoid bias in controlled trials EDITOR,-It is accepted practice that in all quantitative research statistical tests should be used to estimate the likelihood that findings arose by chance and that authors should avoid overinterpreting data where these tests suggest that the likelihood is high. It is also accepted that to avoid bias in the analysis of randomised controlled trials clinica...