A more medial and anterior position of the red aerobic myotomal muscle (RM) and the presence of a vascular counter-current heat exchange system provide the functional elements that facilitate regional RM endothermy in tunas, lamnid sharks and the common thresher shark (Alopias vulpinus). The convergent RM morphology among all species capable of RM endothermy suggests that RM position is a stron...

Work in the various departments of the 1932 Campanile is progressing rapidly, according to an announcement made Friday by Bill Plath, editor. All students who plan to have pictures in the annual are urged to turn them in as soon as possible, as absolutely no extension of time will be made on the deadline, November 2. Pictures may be made from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. from Monday to Saturday in Autry ho...

Dinemoura discrepans Cressey, 1967 (Copepoda, Siphonostomatoida, Pandaridae) is redescribed based on the specimens taken from four species of sharks caught off the southeast coast of Taiwan. The four species of sharks are: pelagic thresher, Alopias pelagicus Nakamura; bigeye thresher, A. superciliosus Lowe; blacktip shark, Carcharhinus limbatus (Müller et Henle); and oceanic whitetip shark, C. ...

Four embryonic bigeye thresher sharks Alopias superciliosus (126–158 cm total length) were collected from two females caught by bottom set gillnet and hook and line (operating in 120–800 m depth) caught from off Kanyakumari area and landed in Cochin Fisheries Harbour on 11-06-2012 . Detailed morphometric measurements are provided. The ratio of size at birth (Lb) and maximum observed length (L m...

Harvest and post-harvest operations constitute principal constraints to rice production, especially in irrigated systems, because of the larger yield that has to be handled. Post-harvest crop losses of up to 35% have been reported and attributed to inefficiency of manual threshing of rice by small-scale farmers. This leads to poor grain quality and rejection of locally produced rice. The Africa...

Fishes with internalized and endothermic red muscles (i.e. tunas and lamnid sharks) are known for a stiff-bodied form of undulatory swimming, based on unique muscle-tendon architecture that limits lateral undulation to the tail region even though the red muscle is shifted anteriorly. A strong convergence between lamnid sharks and tunas in these features suggests that thunniform swimming might b...

We urge all undergraduates to vote for all three of the blanket tax changes proposed in Friday's all-school referendum. The total combined amount of the increases would be very slight—$2.75—virtually nothing in terms of the benefits the organizations concerned could turn back to the students in the form of the enhanced health and utility of these SA groups. The benefits would come in the form o...

A cowpea thresher that uses petrol engine was developed to overcome drudgery of threshing with manually operated and also replace motorized cannot be used in areas where there is no supply electricity. The performance tests on the machine were replicated three times using 10000, 8000 6000 grams kannanado pods at cylinder speed 700, 800 900 rpm each moisture contents 11.05%, 13.65% 14.75% respec...

in this study the wavelet neural network (wnn) and artificial neural network (ann) were used to simulate barley breakage percentage in combine harvester. the models have been trained using the same data conditions. air temperature, thresher cylinder speed, distance between thresher cylinder and concave (back and forth) and the percentage of barely moisture were as the input variables. the resul...

"Mind power is God power! Mind power is money-getting p o w e r ! " e x c l a i m e d D r . Frederick J. Eikerenkoetter aka Reverend Ike as he dazzled a full house in Hamman Hall Friday with a discourse on his doctrine of the "Science of Living" and Green Power. In town this weekend for a g i a n t r e v i v a l Rev. Ike appeared on campus as a guest of Dr. Bill Martin of the sociology departme...