Species identification Gyrodactylids are ubiquitous monogenean ectoparasites on the skin and gills of teleost fish both in marine and freshwater ecosystems. The most recent species compilation lists some 400 gyrodactylid species. Gyrodactylus salaris is a species of this genus found on fins and skin of Atlantic and Baltic salmon in its freshwater phase (Figure 1). The small (0.5 1 mm) parasite ...

Zaugg, W.S. and Beckman, B.R., 1990. Saltwater-induced decreases i n weight and Length relative t o seasonal gill Na+-K+ ATPase changes i n coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch): a test for saltwater adaptability. Aquaculture, 86: 19-23. Juvenile coho salmon challenged for 24 h i n 31 ppt seawater experienced decreases i n weight and length. These decreases became significantly less pronounced dur...

of morbidly obese patients: LMA CTrach vs direct laryngoscopy. Br J Anaesth 2006; 97: 742–5 2 Liu EHC, Goy RWL, Chen FG. The LMA CTrach, a new laryngeal mask airway for endotracheal intubation under vision: evaluation in 100 patients. Br J Anaesth 2006; 96: 396–400 3 Timmermann A, Russo S, Graf BM. Evaluation of the CTrach— an intubating LMA with integrated fibreoptic system. Br J Anaesth 2006;...

Rob S. B. Beanlands, MD, FRCPC, FACC,* Graham Nichol, MD, FRCPC,†† Ella Huszti, MSC,¶ Dennis Humen, MD, FRCPC, FACP, FACC,† Normand Racine, MD, FRCPC,# Michael Freeman, MD, FACC, FRCPC,‡ Karen Y. Gulenchyn, MD, FRCPC, Linda Garrard, BSC, RN,* Robert deKemp, PHD,* Ann Guo, MENG,* Terrence D. Ruddy, MD, FRCPC, FACC,* Francois Benard, MD, FRCPC,** André Lamy, MD, MHSC, Robert M. Iwanochko, MD, FRC...

PAC-optimal, Non-parametric Algorithms and Bounds for Exploration in Concurrent MDPs with Delayed Updates by Jason Pazis Department of Computer Science Duke University Date: Approved: Ronald Parr, Supervisor Vincent Conitzer George Konidaris Mauro Maggioni Peter Stone An abstract of a dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the...

ion at any point of the reaction coordinate. However, in this approximation, some systems present spurious negative activation energies. Johnston and Parr 3 addressed this problem by introducing an anti-Morse function to describe the triplet repulsion between the end atoms of the three-atom fragment involved in the reactive bonds. A recent evaluation of the BEBO method, involving 97 gas-phase r...

Starting from the π-electrons Pariser-Parr-Pople (PPP) Hamiltonian which includes both strong electron-phonon and electron-electron interactions, we propose a strongly correlated wave function for the ground state of conjugated polymers. This wavefunction describes nearest-neighbour intermonomer charge fluctuations in the background of paired electrons localized on monomers. With this picture, ...