—It is difficult for agencies to evaluate the impacts of the many planned dams on São Francisco River, Brazil, migratory fishes because fish migrations are poorly known. We conducted a study on zulega Prochilodus argenteus, an important commercial and recreational fish in the São Francisco River, to identify migrations and spawning areas and to determine linear home range. During two spawning s...

Supplementary Document Data Distributions, Computing Time, Analysis and Methods Ching-Wei Wang 1,2∗, Yu-Ching Lee 2,3, Evelyne Calista 1,2, Fan Zhou 5, Hongtu Zhu 5,6, Ryohei Suzuki 7,8, Daisuke Komura 7, Shumpei Ishikawa 7, Shih-Ping Cheng 4 Graduate Institute of Biomedical Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan . NTUST Center of Computer Vision and Medical I...

In the West, comics are traditionally seen by the " literati " as a rather low-brow medium pandering to sweaty-palmed, superhero-obsessed teenagers. Although this perception may contain a grain of truth, the genre as a whole has long since outgrown this well-worn stereotype. This will come as no surprise to the Japanese, who have considered manga (Japanese comics) part of the established litera...

We have previously isolated mutants of the major-group human rhinovirus type 89 that grow in cells deficient in intercellular adhesion molecule 1 (ICAM-1), the receptor used by the wild-type virus for cell entry [A. Reischl, M. Reithmayer, G. Winsauer, R. Moser, I. Goesler, and D. Blaas., J. Virol. 75:9312-9319, 2001]. We now demonstrate that one of these variants utilizes heparan sulfate prote...