In petals of Salvia high concentrations of ether cause an increase in oxygen consumption and in the production of CO(2), while at the same time a decrease occurs in the acidity of the cell contents.

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I wish to thank the following people for their assistance, advise, and support: Don Lien, Tom Weiss, Rick Lotspeich, JiÍina Jilková, Zdenek Svoboda, and James Boyd. I also thank the feedback from participants at the 1999 Association for Comparative Economic Studies (ACES) meetings and the 1999 American Law and Economics Association (ALEA) meetings. Finally, I acknowledge the financial assistanc...

one of the issues that occur in most wars is captivating the enemy soldiers. international humanitarian law as a branch of contemporary islamic law from many years ago has focused on the treatment with prisoners. present comparative study in jus ad bellum shows that, the four 1949 geneva convention's and the 1977 additional protocols which compared with the islamic rules of international h...

OBJECTIVES As the use of functioning outcomes is increasingly being advocated in multinational clinical trials and comparative studies, making available instruments with known validity and reliability in several languages is required. Here we present data on the Portuguese validation of the Functioning Assessment Short Test (FAST), which was explicitly designed to gauge functioning dimensions e...

PAGE, R. D. M. 1993. Parasites, phylogeny, and cospeciation. International Journal for Parasitology 23:499-506. Host-parasite assemblages offer exciting possibilities for the comparative study of rates of speciation and evolution in different organisms. The basis for such studies must be a phylogenetic analysis of the host-parasite association. Some recent developments in this field are briefly...