an updated checklist of the herpetofauna of iran is presented based on records of amphibian and reptile species whose presence has been confirmed in iran as a result of extensive field expeditions, examination of herpetological collections, literature review, and personal communications from researchers. the herpetofauna of iran consists of 13 species and five subspecies of frogs and toads belo...

"Predecisional information distortion" occurs when decision makers evaluate new information in a way that is biased towards their leading option. The phenomenon is well established, as is the method typically used to measure it, termed "stepwise evolution of preference" (SEP). An inadequacy of this method has recently come to the fore: it measures distortion as the total advantage afforded a le...

The chromosome number and karyotype formula of interesting five genera six species Araceae from Thailand were studied, including Lasia spinosa —uncommon local Thai vegetable (2n=26, L6sm+L2st+Mm14+M4sm), Pistia stratiotes—common aquatic plant (2n=28, Lm10+Mm18), Pycnosphata palmata—rare endemic to Laos Lm12+L4sm+M6m+M2sm+M2st), Scittomaglottis calyptrata—rare in Lm6+L2sm+Mm6+Msm12), Typhonium g...

Following our recent work on the benzene molecule [P.-F. Loos, Y. Damour, and A. Scemama, J. Chem. Phys. 153, 176101 (2020)], motivated by blind challenge of Eriksen et al. [J. Lett. 11, 8922 (2020)] same system, we report accurate full configuration interaction (FCI) frozen-core correlation energy estimates for 12 five- six-membered ring molecules (cyclopentadiene, furan, imidazole, pyrrole, t...