Of those fishes scraping food off substrates and using head parts in substrate attachment for station-holding, the catfish families Loricariidae, Astroblepidae and Mochokidae display the most dramatically adapted morphologies. Loricariidae and Astroblepidae, living in the Neotropical freshwaters, exclusively contain suckermouth catfish species, and their anatomy and head kinematics have already...

Unique compared with recent and prehistoric Homo sapiens, Neandertal humeri are characterised by a pronounced right-dominant bilateral strength asymmetry and an anteroposteriorly strengthened diaphyseal shape. Remodeling in response to asymmetric forces imposed during regular underhanded spear thrusting is the most influential explanatory hypothesis. The core tenet of the "Spear Thrusting Hypot...

Reading is an activity which takes place widely on the web: every newspaper in the world has his own digital version on the internet and there are even a lot of magazines that exist only on the web. In such a scenario, Computer Vision can offer a useful set of tools that can help web editors to improve the quality of the provided service. One of these tools is here presented: given a webpage of...

Retrieving information from social networks is the first and primordial step many data analysis fields such as Natural Language Processing, Sentiment Analysis and Machine Learning. Important data science tasks relay on historical data gathering for further predictive results. Most of the recent works use Twitter API, a public platform for collecting public streams of information, which allows q...

own experiences with antimony (trivalent and pentavalent compounds) and emetine conform to the results obtained by Captain Goodall and, of course, are quite unsatisfactory. Berberine was mainly used in the British Military Hospital and their reports were just as unsatisfactory. From the start the results of treatment with these drugs were carefully watched and compared with each other" and with...