Among local faunas, the maximum body size and taxonomic affiliation of the top terrestrial vertebrate vary greatly. Does this variation reflect how food requirements differ between trophic levels (herbivores vs. carnivores) and with taxonomic affiliation (mammals and birds vs. reptiles)? We gathered data on the body size and food requirements of the top terrestrial herbivores and carnivores, ov...

Camera trapping has greatly enhanced population monitoring of often cryptic and low abundance apex carnivores. Effectiveness of passive infrared camera trapping, and ultimately population monitoring, relies on temperature mediated differences between the animal and its ambient environment to ensure good camera detection. In ectothermic predators such as large varanid lizards, this criterion is ...

The word dracunculiasis comes from the Latin phrase “afflicted with little dragons.” The global Dracunculiasis Eradication Program (DEP) spearheaded by President Jimmy Carter and The Carter Center has quietly “inched” towards world eradication with stunning success, as shown in Figure 1. In the midst of huge publicity and monies going into such global health campaigns as polio eradication, mala...

By Dean Chang MANAGING EDITOR Led by seven straight points from Rich Chapman, the Albany State Great Danes pulled away from the Cortland Red Dragons late in the second half to record their fifth win, 74-59. Cortland's Mike Stokes had just converted a three-point play to cut the Dane lead to six with four minutes to play. Albany Head Coach Dick Sauers substituted Chapman and Brian Kauppila in fo...

Transhumanist visions appear to aim at invulnerability. We are invited to fight the dragon of death and disease, to shed our old, human bodies, and to live on as invulnerable minds or cyborgs. This paper argues that even if we managed to enhance humans in one of these ways, we would remain highly vulnerable entities given the fundamentally relational and dependent nature of posthuman existence....

background:  the purpose of this study was to report the preoperative complaints and postoperative outcome of patients after removal of the radial head prosthesis.   methods:  this is a retrospective review of 14 adult patients (6 females and 8 males) from 2007 to 2011, who underwent radial head prosthesis removal by three surgeons. the average time between implantation and removal was 23 month...

Media reports suggest that the tabletop roleplaying game Dungeons & Dragons saw its biggest year to date in 2020, with many such touting interactive and social benefits for people facing COVID-19 lockdowns. This paper explores reported challenges of playing D&D through teleconferencing hardware software, experience using virtual tabletops. A thematic analysis a sample Reddit threads dis...

Electrochemistry is a valuable tool used by modern synthetic chemists who use electricity to facilitate redox reactions. In this image, created Karrar Nadhom, the dragon provides electrical surge create reaction between sodium nitrite and secondary amine, which are fused form N-nitroso product. Despite dragons being extinct in most parts of world, title an ecologically green process, as indicat...