Bald eagles (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) may be at risk from contaminants in their diet and young birds may be particularly sensitive to contaminant exposure. To evaluate potential risks from dietary mercury exposure to eagle nestlings in South Carolina (USA), we surveyed mercury concentrations in 34 nestlings over two breeding seasons (1998 and 1999). Samples were also obtained from several post...

An extraordinary amount of genomic variation is contained within the chromosomes of domestic dogs, manifesting as dramatic differences in morphology, behaviour and disease susceptibility. Morphology, in particular, has been a topic of enormous interest as biologists struggle to understand the small window of dog domestication from wolves, and the division of dogs into pure breeding, closed popu...

Active Learning is an essential method for label-efficient deep learning. As a Bayesian active learning method, by Disagreement (BALD) successfully selects the most representative samples maximizing mutual information between model prediction and parameters. However, when applied to batch acquisition mode, like construction with greedy search, BALD suffers from poor performance, especially nois...

The tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle aconitase gene acnA from Streptomyces viridochromogenes Tü494 was cloned and analyzed. AcnA catalyzes the isomerization of citrate to isocitrate in the TCA cycle, as indicated by the ability of acnA to complement the aconitase-deficient Escherichia coli mutant JRG3259. An acnA mutant was unable to develop aerial mycelium and to sporulate, resulting in a bald p...

Scalp is considered to be one of the ' immune zones' in leprosy. The involvement of the scalp in leprosy has been reported, though rarely. In the cases reported so far, the scalp was found to be affected mainly in bacilliferous leprosy and the involvement was mostly on the bald area of the scalp . However, in the present case a tuberculoid lesion was found on the hairy occipital area of the sca...

STEENHOF, K. 1987. Assessing raptor reproductive success and productivity. Pages 157-170 in B.A. Giron Pendleton, B.A. Millsap, K.W. Cline, and D.M. Bird [EDs.], Raptor management techniques manual. Washington, DC U.S.A. WARNKE, D.K., D.E. ANDERSEN, C.R. DYKSTR& M.W. ME3⁄4ER, AND W.H. KAR•SOV. 2002. Provisioning rates and time budgets of adult and nestling Bald Eagles at inland Wisconsin nests....

Eingesetzt in Fahrzeugflotten können Elektrofahrzeuge aufgrund hoher Auslastungsgrade bald wirtschaftlicher sein als konventionell betriebene Fahrzeuge. Der vorliegende Beitrag soll die Herausforderungen an die Integration von Elektromobilen in Fahrzeugflotten aufzeigen und bestehende Ansätze für Mobilitätsdienstleistungen und Geschäftsmodelle vorstellen und weiterentwickeln. Die betrachteten D...