A variety of refugia were offered to different instars of brown recluse spiders, Loxosceles reclusa Gertsch and Mulaik, and a South American recluse spider, L. laeta (Nicolet), to determine whether they preferred certain types of refugia spaces. Variables included (1) crevice widths ranging from 3.2 to 21 mm, (2) horizontal and vertical orientations, and (3) new refugia or refugia that had silk...

The effect of substratum heterogeneity on the distribution and abundance of sessile epibenthos was studied between May 1980 and September 1981, in a mid-intertidal shore subject to severe annual ice scouring during winter In summer, low abundances of organisms were associated with smooth regular surfaces whereas high abundances were associated with higher heterogeneity in the form of cracks and...

The application of prestressed concrete technology in civil structures is relatively recent. Therefore, the existing prestressed concrete members in such structure are still relatively young, and the corrosion and the concrete deterioration problems associated with this type of concrete members have became clearly evident only in the early 1980s. Damage during service, frequently appearing afte...

The hemoproteins are such versatile oxidation-reduction catalysts and such remarkable oxygen-binding pigments that there has always been a lively interest in the structural factors that determine the reactivity of the heme iron atom. The high specificity which characterizes many of their reactions, which is shown in only a rudimentary manner by heme itself, would appear to rule out structures w...

The binding site of the dopamine D2 receptor, like that of other homologous G protein-coupled receptors, is contained within a water-accessible crevice formed among its seven membrane-spanning segments. We have developed a method to map systematically all the residues forming the surface of this binding-site crevice, and we have applied this method to the third membrane-spanning segment (M3). W...

G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) transmit extracellular signals to activate intracellular heterotrimeric G proteins (Gαβγ) and arrestins. For G protein signalling, the Gα C-terminus (GαCT) binds to a cytoplasmic crevice of the receptor that opens upon activation. A consensus motif is shared among GαCT from the Gi/Gt family and the 'finger loop' region (ArrFL1-4) of all four arrestins. Here w...

Modularity in total hip arthroplasty provides multiple benefits to the surgeon in restoring the appropriate alignment and position to a previously damaged hip joint. The vast majority of modern implants incorporate modularity into their design with some implants having multiple modular interfaces. There is the potential for failure at modular junctions because of fretting and crevice corrosion ...