D URING the summer of 1950 a number of living specimens were collected during studies on temperature regulation in Alaskan mamma1s.l These animals were brought back to Wisconsin and maintained in captivity, a number being still alive more than two years after capture. Since an adequate diet is often essential for successful maintenance, some systematic observations on food preference in terms o...

Cnidarians are the simplest metazoans to exhibit satiety after feeding. When hydra are fed to repletion, they close their mouths and cease to capture prey. As feeding stops, contractions of the tentacles and body column increase. Our earlier experiments showed that a gel chromatographic fraction of prey substances inhibits prey capture. We now present evidence that the same fraction reduces the...

We identified cases where the Jolly-Seber estimator of population size is biased under tag loss and tag-induced mortality by examining the mathematical arguments and performing computer simulations. We found that, except under certain tag-loss models and high sample sizes, the population size estimators (uncorrected for tag loss) are severely biased high when tag loss or tag-induced mortality o...

background and objectives: a single reactive igg anti-dengue virus elisa test in the absence of igm antibodies or ns1 antigen may denote current infection or past exposure to the virus. to determine whether igg index value can be used to identify true current dengue infection we conducted a prospective observational study. materials and methods: suspected dengue patients (n =1745) were tested i...

Fisheries bycatch is a key threat to cetacean species globally. Managing the impact requires an understanding of the conditions under which animals are caught and the sections of the population affected. We used observer data collected on an albacore tuna gillnet fishery in the northeast Atlantic, to assess operational and environmental factors contributing to bycatch of common and striped dolp...

Abstract This paper explores the significance of intelligent social behavior among non‐human animals for philosophical theories communication. Using alarm call system vervet monkeys as a case study, I argue that interpersonal communication (or what “minded communication”) can and does take place in absence production recognition communicative intentions. More generally, evolutionary theory prov...

The role of carbon dioxide in global warming is one of the contemporary environmental issues and it is, therefore, necessary to have available technology to capture the released CO2 into the atmosphere. Amino acids have the same amine functionality as alkanolamines with similar behavior towards CO2 absorption. The solubility of carbon dioxide in potassium glycinate (KG) solutions with different...

Separation and capture of carbon dioxide from the flue gas of power plants in order to reduceenvironmental damages has always been of interest to researchers. In this study, aqueous solution ofmethylamine was used as an absorbent for CO2 capture. In order to study this reaction, DensityFunctional Theory (DFT) was employed at the level of B3LYP/6-311++G(d,p) by using theconductor-like polarizabl...

The study on the ecophysiological impacts of stress in female Persian sturgeon broodfishes revealed that the average cortisol level varried in all broodfish caught at the Sefidrud River (163.38±21.2ng mL-1), Sefidrud River estuary (260.27±19.7ng mL-1) and Gorganrud River estuary (179.38±20.8ng mL-1). The variations in serum glucose levels were 140.65±12.05mg dL-1, 144.44±5.9mg dL-1 and 126.24±1...