the present study investigated effects of starvation on growth, body chemical composition and non-specific immune parameters in yellow fin seabream.  in this study, 120 fish with a mean length of 8.05± 0.98 cm and weight of 7.46± 1.07 g (was referred as size a) and 120 fish with a mean length of 11.05 ± 0.86 cm and weight of 18.01± 3.07 g (was referred size b) were used with each size was compr...

Although most schools offer and/or require a course in spreadsheet and database applications, the amount of meaningful learning derived from the class varies widely. The approach described in this paper involves a combination of demonstration and hands-on practice using two term-long cases to be used in an introductory course in spreadsheet and database applications. These cases, packaged toget...

Refunding efficiency, a measure of the optimality of a refunding decision, is widely used in the call exercise decision for agency, corporate, and municipal bonds. The original definition of efficiency assumes that the refunding bond is optionless. However, in practice, the refunding bond is often callable. We show that the commonly used method of incorporating the value of the refunding bond’s...

In this paper we propose to predict the students’ outcome by analyzing the interactions that happen in class during the course. PresenceClick lets teachers and students register their interactions during learning sessions in an agile way to give feedback in return about the students’ learning progress by means of visualizations. Some of the registered interactions are the students who are atten...

The flotation version of restricted environmental stimulation technique (REST) has been shown to improve perceptual-motor skills in sports and creativity in the sciences. We examined whether these effects would extend to jazz improvisation—an activity involving perceptual-motor coordination and creativity. College students enrolled in an intermediate-level jazz improvisation class (N 1⁄4 8) flo...

In this resolution, the AD is defined as: The set of wishes, previously and expressly manifested by the patient, about the care and treatment that he or she wants to receive when he or she is unable to freely and autonomously express their will [1]. It states that the individual may choose to record the medical treatments he or she does not wish to receive in certain situations in the future, t...

An experiment was conducted to determine the effect of injecting glucagon-like peptide 2 (GLP-2) on the small intestinal weight, morphology, and nutrient transporter expression in pharmacologically stressed broiler chickens. A total of 144 seven-day-old birds were fed either a basal diet (CTRL) or a basal diet plus 30 mg of corticosterone (CORT)/kg of diet for a total of 14 d. Half of the birds...

The use of statistical potentials in NMR structure calculation improves the accuracy of the final structure but also raises issues of double counting and possible bias. Because statistical potentials are averaged over a large set of structures, they may not reflect the preferences of a particular structure or data set. We propose a Bayesian method to incorporate a knowledge-based backbone dihed...

Although alternative mating tactics are found in males of many species, little is known about tactic-specific adaptations to sperm competition and the mechanism by which fertilization success is obtained. We now report on the sperm investment patterns of males that use alternative mating tactics in bluegill sunfish (Lepomis macrochirus). Bluegill males are characterized by three alternative mat...