Background: Fluoxetine (ProzacTM) is one of the most popular antidepressant that can be released to aquatic systems via sewage-treatment effluents. It is suspected to provoke substantial effects in the aquatic environment. Methods: In spawning tanks, specimens were exposed to concentrations of 0 and 0.54 µgl-1 fluoxetine from male introduction until the larvae had hatched. Prior to spawning, n...

The neural simulation tool NEST can simulate small to very large networks of point-neurons or neurons with a few compartments. In this chapter, we show by example how models are programmed and simulated in NEST. This document is based on a preprint version of Gewaltig et al. (2012) and has been updated for NEST 2.6 (r11744). Updated to 2.6.0 Hans E. Plesser, December 2014 Updated to 2.4.0 Hans ...

High Performance Fortran is a dataparallel language that allows the user to specify the parallelism in his program. It is not always easy to extract the parallelism in a given program. To help the user, an automatic loop parallelizer has been developed : Bouclettes. Bouclettes has been written to validate some scheduling and mapping techniques that are mentioned in this paper. A Fortran 77 loop...

This paper discussed three important factors related to the special difficulties of EFL learners: coursebooks, language distance, and teachers. students' vocabulary input sources lack real context socio-cultural target language. At this point, efforts cannot be focused on creating a for them, which is unrealistic, but find methods based EFL. For learners, as one numerous learning resources, hav...

The author describes the methods of finding and predicting compound word correlates in its equivalence nest on basis paradigmatic relations between abbreviation decoding stimuli. relevance study is determined by fact that it established principles dictionary entries formation for Exploratory Dictionary Russian Word Abbreviations compiled Laboratory Abbreviation Trends Research at Language Depar...

This study tries to investigate the perception of Saudi students at Jazan University about native English-speaking teachers (NEST) and non-native based on their teaching language skills grammar. The 50 English was collected from taught by these teachers. findings show that are outstanding reading, listening speaking. In contrast, very good grammar, reading writing skills. will help government e...

Background: Premature birth is a major cause of infant mortality in developed countries. Newborns confined to neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) are in a rapid stage of brain development. As such, sleep plays a pivotal role in the proper brain development of newborns. However, this developmental aspect is often disregarded due to the lack of information. Aim: This study aimed to evaluate the...

Laboratory mice are well capable of performing innate routine behaviour programmes necessary for courtship, nest-building and exploratory activities although housed for decades in animal facilities. We found that in mice inactivation of the clock gene Period1 profoundly changes innate routine behaviour programmes like those necessary for courtship, nest building, exploration and learning. These...