-The approximately 330 living species of marsupials are currently divided into three American (Didelphimorphia, Microbiotheria, and Paucituberculata) and four Australasian (Dasyuromorphia, Diprotodontia, Notoryctemorphia, and Peramelemorphia) orders. Studies of interordinal relationships generally support the monophyly of Australidelphia, which includes the four Australian orders and the South ...

This book inventories all available (and some unavailable) names in the family, genus, and species groups of extant members of orders Actiniaria and Corallimorpharia [cnidarian subclass Hexacorallia (Zoantharia) of class Anthozoa], providing a benchmark of names, their status, and taxon membership. I have attempted to make the compilation complete as of 2010; some names created after 2010 are i...

Understanding the extremely variable, complex shape and venation characters of angiosperm leaves is one of the most challenging problems in botany. Machine learning offers opportunities to analyze large numbers of specimens, to discover novel leaf features of angiosperm clades that may have phylogenetic significance, and to use those characters to classify unknowns. Previous computer vision app...

We have investigated the mechanism of TOP-53 distribution to the lung and lung-localized tumor. In contrast to etoposide (VP-16), TOP-53 contains a basic aminoalkyl group that may predispose it to interact specifically with phospholipids, consequently leading to an increase of drug accumulation in the tissues. Therefore, we have studied its interaction with phospholipids in vitro using an organ...

A standardized batch test procedure was developed and used to evaluate the reactivity of twelve newly designed microscale zerovalent iron (mZVI) particles and two biogenic iron sulfides towards a mixture of chlorinated aliphatic hydrocarbons (CAHs) and their breakdown products. For comparison, commercially available mZVIs, nanoscale zerovalent irons (nZVIs), iron sulfides (FeS) and granular zer...

background the aim of this study was to evaluate the association between quran commands and marital satisfaction in family. methods and materials this study is performed with quantitative methods and survey technique by using a questionnaire. the sample size was families living in marand city. by using cochran formula and based on systematic randomized sampling, 360 persons were survived. resul...

We study the structure of additively indecomposable integers in families totally real cubic fields. prove that for orders these fields, minimal traces multiplied by positive elements codifferent can be arbitrarily large. This is very surprising, as so-far studied examples quadratic and simplest this minimum 1 or 2. further give sharp upper bounds on norms our families.

Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) technique now widely use for efficiency evaluation of a set of Decision Making Units (DMUs). As regards of the necessity for ranking efficient units different DEA models presented each of which has advantages and rank efficient units from special aspects. Note that all the existing ranking models have disadvantages, as well and there is not a model in which all t...

We consider families of orders of complex cubic fields introduced recently by Levesque and Rhin and find the Voronoï-algorithm expansions and the fundamental units. We compare with the Jacobi-Perron algorithm expansions.

The issue of clustering proteins into homologous protein families (HPFs) has attracted considerable attention by researchers. On one side, many databases of protein families have been developed by using popular sequence alignment tools and relatively simple clustering methods followed by extensive manual curation. On the other side, more elaborate clustering approaches have been used, yet with ...