western Greece. The species is intensively exploited in the area as live bait for hand lines and long lines both for professional and sport fishermen. The study area is a closed bay in western Greece with a small opening which connects it to the Ionian Sea. Longevity of the species in the study area was found to be 4+ years. Females’ total length ranged between 18 and 54 mm; for males it ranged...

Energy expenditure was estimated using the doubly-labelled water (DLW) method in summer in five free-living adult, non-pregnant, non-lactating, red deer (Cervus elaphus) hinds (weight 107.3 (SE 0.9) kg; age 6 (SE 1) years) on lowland pasture under typical farming conditions. Climatic conditions were monitored throughout the experiment. Errors due to 2H losses in CH4 and faeces were calculated f...

We provide an ultrafilter proof of the 2-dimensional Halpern–Läuchli Theorem in the following sense. If T0 and T1 are trees and T0 ⊗ T1 denotes their level product, we exhibit an ultrafilter U ∈ β(T0 ⊗ T1) so that every A ∈ U contains a subset of the form S0 ⊗ S1 for suitable strong subtrees of T0 and T1. We then discuss obstacles to extending our method of proof to higher dimensions.

In their study of a quartic integral, Boros and Moll discovered a special class of sequences, which is called the Boros–Moll sequences. In this paper, we consider the concavity and convexity of the Boros–Moll sequences {di(m)}i=0. We show that for any integer m > 6, there exist two positive integers t0(m) and t1(m) such that di(m)+di+2(m) > 2di+1(m) for i ∈ [0, t0(m)] ⋃ [t1(m),m−2] and di(m)+di...

AIM The effect of two jumping competitions, performed in two consecutive weekends, on serum creatine phosphokinase (CPK), aspartate aminotransferase (AST), and lactate dehydrogenase (LDH), urea, creatinine (CREA) concentrations were evaluated in 12 healthy jumper horses. MATERIALS AND METHODS Blood sampling was performed before the 1(st) day of competition (T0), at the end of each show (J1, J...

Lactuca sativa is widely used as a leafy vegetable belonging to the Asteraceae family. Cotyledonary leaves of in vitro lettuce seedlings were transformed by plasmids containing the GCHI gene. Also the effects of number of days of pre-cultivation and co-cultivation of explants were examined on the transformation frequency. After co-cultivation, the explants were transferred onto the regeneration...

CONTEXT The hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis is a major determinant of the host response to stress. The relationship between its activation and patient outcome is not known. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the prognostic value of cortisol levels and a short corticotropin stimulation test in patients with septic shock. DESIGN AND SETTING Prospective inception cohort study conducted between October ...