Declines in greater sage grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) productivity and population numbers throughout their range demand a better understanding of how nutrition influences sage grouse populations. During March and April 1999–2001, blood samples were collected from 158 female (73 adult, 85 yearling), free-ranging, prelaying, greater sage grouse from an area in northwestern Nevada, USA, and ...

Serial analysis of gene expression (SAGE) can be used to quantify gene expression in human tissues. Comparison of gene expression levels in neoplastic tissues with those seen in nonneoplastic tissues can, in turn, identify novel tumor markers. Such markers are urgently needed for highly lethal cancers like pancreatic adenocarcinoma, which typically presents at an incurable, advanced stage. The ...

Gunnison sage-grouse (Centrocercus minimus) are distributed across southwestern Colorado and southeastern Utah, United States. Their distribution has decreased over the past century and the species has been listed as threatened by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Reduced genetic diversity, small population size, and isolation may affect Gunnison sage-grouse population persistence. Population...

Foraging herbivores must meet nutritional requirements by not only finding enough plant biomass to consume, but also finding plants with high protein content and low concentrations of potentially toxic plant secondary metabolites (PSMs). Greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus; hereafter, sage-grouse) are sagebrush obligate herbivores that consume relatively high concentrations of PSMs. ...

Increasing energy and housing demands are impacting wildlife populations throughout western North America. Greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus), a species known for its sensitivity to landscape-scale disturbance, inhabits the same low elevation sage-steppe in which much of this development is occurring. Wyoming has committed to maintain sage-grouse populations through conservation ea...

BACKGROUND Gallbladder cancer (GBC) is an uncommon neoplasm in the United States, but one with high mortality rates. This malignancy remains largely understudied at the molecular level such that few targeted therapies or predictive biomarkers exist. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN We built the first series of serial analysis of gene expression (SAGE) libraries from GBC and nonneoplastic gallbladder mucos...

We provide a simple way of searching for formulas the Bailey–Borwein–Plouffe type together with an algorithm and implementation in sage . Aside from rediscovering some already known formulas, method has been used discovery new BBP-type formula 3 π In addition, is very flexible allows us to look irrational bases but integer coefficients. As example this, various Pisot bases, we have discovered b...

Declines in greater sage grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) productivity and population numbers throughout their range demand a better understanding of how nutrition influences sage grouse populations. During March and April 1999-2001, blood samples were collected from 158 female (73 adult, 85 yearling), free-ranging, prelaying, greater sage grouse from an area in northwestern Nevada, USA, and ...

Professor of Geography, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90024 USA Abstract: Unlike chaparral, shrubs of coastal sage are capable of continual seedling reproduction. As a result, mixed-aged stands form which show little senescence. Litter turnover is twice as rapid. The more open sage scrub canopy permits persistence of a diverse herb layer into mature communities. Crown sprout...

Despite a wide array of safe and effective vaccines in use globally, with major impacts on health worldwide, the WHO Strategic Advisory Group of Experts (SAGE) on Immunization has been repeatedly confronted with reports of hesitancy towards accepting specific vaccines or vaccination programmes. This paper summarizes the rationale for a SAGE review of the issue of vaccine hesitancy, its impact a...