BACKGROUND Drinking mate has been associated with cancers of the esophagus, oropharynx, larynx, lung, kidney, and bladder. We conducted this study to determine whether drinking mate could lead to substantial exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH), including known carcinogens, such as benzo[a]pyrene. METHODS The concentrations of 21 individual PAHs were measured in dry leaves of ei...

Most studies of repeatability examine female mate choice, but male mate choice may have significant evolutionary consequences when males of a sexual species are sexually parasitized by heterospecific gynogenetic females as is the case for sailfin mollies, Poecilia latipinna. Amazon mollies, Poecilia formosa, are all female gynogens that require sperm from P. latipinna for initiation of embryoge...

The use of parallel/distributed programming increases as it enables high performance computing. However, to cover the expectations of high performance, a high degree of expertise is required. Fortunately, in general, every parallel application follows a particular programming scheme, such as Master/Worker, Pipeline, etc. By studying the bottlenecks of these schemes, the performance problems the...

1. Understanding the effects of individual and population factors on variation in breeding dispersal (the movement of individuals between successive breeding sites) is key to identifying the strategies behind breeders' movements. Dispersal is often influenced by multiple factors and these can be confounded with each other. We used 13 years of data on the locations, mates, breeding success and a...

This paper presents a dependency parsing system, presented as BASQUE TEAM at the SPMRL’2014 Shared Task, based on the combination of different clustering approaches. We create new features applying clustering methods to automatically annotated large corpora. Once these new features are calculated, we add them to the base features in order to create a series of analyzers using two freely availab...

Enantiomorphism in gastropods is related to the shell shape: high-spired snails present a higher proportion of enantiomorphs, low-spired it less frequent. This could be consequence way mate; mounting mating occurs species and independent chirality while mate face-to-face which implies certain degree genitalia adjustment for successful copulation. Cases sinistral Pyramidula have been reported Eu...

Introduction: If the patients are not satisfied with the hospital, this results in switching behavior of patients. In this situation, among different hospitals, the patients choose the hospital with higher level of service quality. So, the main aim of this paper is investigating the effect of hospital's service quality on switching behavior of inpatients in Shahid Sadoughi Hospital of Yazd. Me...