We investigate the effect of the temperature-size rule upon zooids of the tropical American bryozoan Cupuladria exfragminis. Results show that mean zooid length, zooid width and zooid area vary significantly between clonal replicates of C. exfragminis kept under different controlled temperature conditions. Significantly larger zooids are produced during times of lowered water temperature that a...

We focus on the chiral Lagrangian couplings describing radiative corrections to weak semi-leptonic decays and relate them to the decay amplitude of a lepton, computed by Braaten and Li at one loop in the Standard Model. For this purpose, we follow a two-step procedure. A first matching, from the Standard Model to Fermi theory, yields a relevant set of counterterms. The latter are related to chi...

Background Real time dynamic lung MRI is a promising tool to noninvasively assess lung function and mechanics. However, it potential is not realized in the clinic due to the restricted spatio-temporal resolution and volume coverage. The main focus of this work is to overcome these drawbacks using the recent blind compressed sensing (BCS) scheme [Lingala et al., IEEE TMI 2013], which enables rec...

The commercial value of ornamental fish is primarily dependent on their external body colouration. Fade coloured fish fails to attract the interest of the buyers. In the present study an experiment were conducted to evaluate the efficacy of four types of feed (Living tubifex, Dried tubifex, Dried Daphnia and Prepared granulated feed) in the rearing of fantail guppy. Carotenoid content of the fe...

An investigation into the influence of temperature on the growth and reproductive status of the fathead minnow Pimephales promelas revealed that, while there was no clear effect of treatment on sex differentiation, ovarian tissue from female fish reared under the highest temperature regime contained large amounts of undefined tissue containing no germ cells. Furthermore, both male and female fi...