STOCK DEFINITION AND GEOGRAPHIC RANGE Spotted seals are distributed along the continental shelf of the Beaufort, Chukchi, Bering, and Okhotsk Seas south to the northern Yellow Sea and western Sea of Japan (Shaughnessy and Fay 1977, Fig. 11). Satellite tagging studies have provided considerable insight into the seasonal movements of spotted seals (Lowry et al. 1998, Lowry et al. 2000). Those stu...

The evolution of sociality is related to many ecological factors that act on animals as selective forces, thus driving the formation of groups. Group size will depend on the payoffs of group living. The Social Complexity Hypothesis for Communication (SCHC) predicts that increases in group size will be related to increases in the complexity of the communication among individuals. This hypothesis...

Wastes of Barbonymus gonionotus (Java barb) skin can be processed as collagen a food additive. Yogurt is functionaldrink that has gained attention. This study aimed to characterize yogurt added with from Java barb skin. The solutions used extract the were (A) 1:10 (w/v) for 24 h, (B) 1:20 (C) 36 and (D) h. obtained was at concentrations 1%, 2%, 3%. then examined its protein content, pH, titrata...

--The aim of this work is to implement on real-time a speech recognition module in order to control the movements of a five degree of freedom manipulator arm using a Kalman filter as a selector in noisy environment and HHM model to recognise 12 Arabic spotted words. The methodology adopted is based on detecting and spotting vocabulary words within a phrase generated by user, the system recognis...

A spotted fever-like rickettsia was identified in a Hemaphysalis tick by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification and sequencing of the 16S rDNA, ompA, and ompB genes. A comparison of these nucleotide sequences with those of other spotted fever group (SFG) rickettsiae revealed that the Hemaphysalis tick rickettsia ia was distinct from other previously reported strains. Phylogenetic analysi...

A spatial predator–prey model with colored noise is investigated in this paper. We find that the number of the spotted pattern is increased as the noise intensity is increased. When the noise intensity and temporal correlation are in appropriate levels, the model exhibits phase transition from spotted to stripe pattern. Moreover, we show the number of the spotted and stripe pattern, with respec...

The recent range expansion of Barred Owls (Strix varia) into the Pacific Northwest, where the species now co-occurs with the endemic Northern Spotted Owl (Strix occidentalis caurina), resulted in a unique opportunity to investigate potential competition between two congeneric, previously allopatric species. The primary criticism of early competition research was the use of current species' dist...

1. Zhu Y, Fournier PE, Eremeeva M, Raoult D. Proposal to create subspecies of Rickettsia conorii based on multi-locus sequence typing and an emended description of Rickettsia conorii. BMC Microbiol. 2005;5:11. 2. Fournier PE, Dumler JS, Greub G, Zhang J, Wu Y, Raoult D. Gene sequence-based criteria for identifi cation of new Rickettsia isolates and description of Rickettsia heilongjiangensis sp...

When thinking of MDE, the immediate understanding is that models drive software development, in the sense that the software is constructed by transforming models from higher levels of abstraction to the point where we reach a model which is executable with the desired degree of quality characteristics. What tends to be less evident, is that, precisely in order to reach the desired quality, many...