Ascidians exhibit a rich array of body plans and life history strategies. Colonial species typically consist of zooids embedded in a common test and brood large, fully developed larvae, while solitary species live singly and usually free-spawn eggs that develop into small, undifferentiated larvae. Ascidians in the order Stolidobranchia include both colonial and solitary species, as well as seve...

Reducing resource competition is a crucial requirement for colonial seabirds to ensure adequate self- and chick-provisioning during breeding season. Spatial segregation is a common avoidance strategy among and within species from neighboring breeding colonies. We determined whether the foraging behaviors of incubating lesser black-backed gulls (Larus fuscus) differed between six colonies varyin...

A meeting was held under tlie presidency of Sir Joseph Fayrer, Bart., K.C.S.I., in the Bast Conference Hall of the Imperial Institute, on Wednesday, March 2nd, 1898, and Mr. James Cantlie gave an address on the Organisation of the Colonial Medical Department. The scheme which was proposed for consideration was based upon that contained in a paper on the organisation of the Colonial Medical Serv...

We develop a model of oligarchy subject to elite competition. Even when all members of the elite share an economic interest in labor repression, competition for control of the state can drive a wedge between the incentives of old and new elites. Thus ‘the iron law of oligarchy’–that all elite members share an overriding interest in repressive institutions–can be bent in various ways. New elites...

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Stalheim, O. H. V. (University of Wisconsin, Madison) and J. B. Wilson. Leptospiral colonial morphology. J. Bacteriol. 86:482-489. 1963.-A sequence of apparent colonial types was observed with colonies of Leptospira pomona, L. canicola, L. icterohaemorrhagiae, and L. grippotyphosa in agar medium. Although some colonies of these serotypes had a different appearance initially, they eventually dev...

In Nationalizing the Body, Projit Mukharji presents a meticulously researched construction of the identity of Daktari physicians, or Indian practitioners of Western medicine, through the late nineteenth and early twentieth century in British Colonial Bengal. With new and compelling views and evidence, Mukharji’s revisits a critical theme in the history of medicine in the colonial context. Namel...

as a significant number of post-colonial writers have reread colonial masterpieces, the main purpose of the researchers in this study is a detailed analysis of among the believers by v. s. naipaul in the light of orientalism.this article is indeed a response to the representation of the orient, islam, and the islamic middle east in the west, in general, and in naipaul’s travel writing, in parti...