Understanding the relationship between taxonomic and morphological changes is important in identifying the reasons for accelerated morphological diversi¢cation early in the history of animal phyla. Here, a simple general model describing the joint dynamics of taxonomic diversity and morphological disparity is presented and applied to the data on the diversi¢cation of blastozoans. I show that th...

Forest Certifi cation ( FC) is a process of certifying any forest by an independent party. During the 80’s when forest was heavily destructed, the need of the forest certifi cation was felt, and was accepted worldwide.The interest for FC varies as per the needs of the people and/or organizations involved. Various organizations are involved in the certifi cation process, major ones being Forest ...

The present study was planned to assess the variation in serum electrolytes in patients of major depression. A total of 100 patients of 35-45 yrs of age (68 males and 32 females) of depression were compared with the age matched healthy volunteers. Severity of depression was assessed by DSM IV criteria and were graded into mild, moderate and severe depression. In all the subjects serum electroly...

Major con ̄ icts in design process management seem to stem from speci® cation con ̄ icts among the constituent coupled design tasks. Coupled tasks represent con ̄ icts in the ̄ ow of information of a design process. Resolving these speci® cation con ̄ icts early on in the development process tends to reduce product development lead times and cost. In this paper, we attempt to explain the coupling or...

H2 gas generation with associated swelling using Li4Ti5O12 (LTO)-based hybrid capacitors upon high-voltage operation over 3.0 V has been a major challenge owing to catalytic reductive decomposition of solvent such as propylene carbonate (PC) at the Lewis-acid sites on LTO surface. Herein, we report method suppress gassing behavior by adding spiro(1,1?)-bipyrrolidinium tetrafluoroborate (SBPBF4)...

In recent years, several novel cation-independent bioflocculants have been reported, which can avoid the secondary contamination caused by addition of cations. However, compared with cation-dependent bioflocculants, the flocculating mechanism of cation-independent bioflocculants is largely unknown. In this study, a cation-independent bioflocculant MBF-W6 produced by Chryseobacterium daeguense W...