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Recruitment, abundance (percentage cover, density) and diversity (H9) of a benthic subtidal community were examined in relation to large scale ( > 0.15 km) shoreline configuration in the St. Lawrence Estuary (Canada). Settlement panels were moored inside and outside bays of different sizes (0.15, 1.5, 4 and 7 km aperture) and along a portion of straight ( ̄ 12 km) coast. Only the largest bay wa...

We investigated the hypothesis that maritime climatic factors associated with summer fog and low cloud stratus (summer marine layer) help explain the compositional diversity of chaparral in the coast range of central California. We randomly sampled chaparral species composition in 0.1-hectare plots along a coast-to-interior gradient. For each plot, climatic variables were estimated and soil sam...

OBJECTIVE HIV infection in sub-Saharan Africa increasingly occurs among people who inject drugs (PWID). Kenya is one of the first to implement a national needle and syringe program. Our study undertook a baseline assessment as part of evaluating needle and syringe program in a seek, test, treat, and retain approach. METHODS Participants enrolled between May and December 2012 from 10 sites. Re...

Populations of jellyfish are known to thrive in many low oxygen environments, however, the physiological mechanisms that permit these organisms to live in hypoxia remain unknown. The oxyregulatory abilities of four species of scyphomedusae were investigated, and it was found that Aurelia labiata, Phacellophora camtschatica, Cyanea capillata and Chrysaora quinquecirrha maintain steady oxygen con...

For many species of metagenic jellyfish the location of the benthic polyps is unknown. To gain insight in the distribution, species composition and population structure of scyphozoan jellyfish polyps in the southern North Sea area, polyp samples were collected from natural and artificial substrates (settling plates, marina floats and wrecks) at ten inshore locations in the Netherlands, seven of...

The proportion of adult women without children in the United States has increased in recent years and there are multiple reasons women do not have children. Past research concerning the well-being of women relative to their motherhood status does not recognize the great diversity among women without children. I attempt to fill that gap by classifying women based on the presence or absence of ch...

Objectives: The main objective of this study was to identify some yam assessions that are tolerant to the most invasive nematodes like Scutellonema bradys and Meloidogyne spp. Methodology and results: New assessions of Dioscorea spp. were screened in the savanna zone of central Côte d’Ivoire. Fourteen of D. alata and thirty seven assessions of D. rotundata were tested respectively and separatel...

1Key Laboratory of Special Animal Epidemic Disease of Ministry of Agriculture, Institute of Special Animal and Plant Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Changchun 130112, China 2University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana 3Université Lille, Inserm, CHU Lille, U995-LIRIC-Lille Inflammation Research International Center, 59000 Lille, France 4Instituto de Ciencias Ambientales y Sal...

Bhavisha Bakrania, Eugene F. Du Toit, Kevin J. Ashton, Can J. Kiessling, Karl-Heinz Wagner, John P. Headrick, and Andrew C. Bulmer Heart Foundation Research Centre, Griffith Health Institute, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia; Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine, Bond University, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia; and Department of Nutritional Science, University of Vie...