Comparative study has been done to examine the biodiversity and ecological status of the intertidal region of Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Bandstand and National Centre for Performing Arts (NCPA) rocky beaches in Mumbai, West coast of India. A total of 50 species of intertidal organisms were recorded from these shores. Shannon and Simpson's diversity index, Margalefs richness ...

Threshold detection methods are increasingly popular for assessing nonlinear responses to environmental change, but their statistical performance remains poorly understood. We simulated linear change in stream benthic macroinvertebrate communities and evaluated the performance of commonly used threshold detection methods based on model fitting (piecewise quantile regression [PQR]), data partiti...

Context. Static and quasi-static aberrations represent a great limit for high-contrast imaging in large telescopes. Among them the most important ones are all not corrected by adaptive optics (AO) system, which called non-common path (NCPA). Several techniques have been proposed to mitigate it. The typical approach is set an offset on AO system with exactly opposite sign of NCPA order correct i...

The phylogeography of the lacertid lizard Gallotia atlantica from the small volcanic island of Lanzarote (Canary Islands) was analysed based on 1075 bp of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) sequence (partial cytochrome b and ND2) for 157 individuals from 27 sites (including three sites from neighbouring islets). Levels of sequence divergence were generally low, with the most distant haplotypes separated...

INTRODUCTION Early-onset dementia (EOD) is defined as dementia with onset before the age of 65 years. EOD is increasingly recognised as an important clinical and social problem with devastating consequences for patients and caregivers. OBJECTIVE Determine the annual crude incidence rate and the specific incidence rates by sex and age in patients with EOD, and the standardised rate using the l...

In poorly known groups for which data are insufficient to develop biologically plausible model-based approaches to phylogeographical analyses, a ‘first hypotheses’ protocol is suggested as offering the best way to generate hypotheses for subsequent model-based tests. Preliminary hypotheses are formulated about species boundaries and population processes in three species complexes of the Liolaem...

Context. Direct imaging of Earth-like planets is one the main science cases for next generation extremely large telescopes. This very challenging due to star-planet contrast that has be overcome. Most current high-contrast instruments are limited in sensitivity at small angular separations non-common path aberrations (NCPA). The NCPA leak through corona-graph and create bright speckles limit on...

Focal plane wavefront sensing (FPWFS) is appealing for several reasons. Notably, it offers high sensitivity and does not suffer from non-common path aberrations (NCPA). The price to pay a computational burden the need diversity lift any phase ambiguity. If those limitations can be overcome, FPWFS great solution NCPA measurement, key limitation high-contrast imaging, could used as adaptive optic...

One of the key noise sources that currently limits high-contrast imaging observations for exoplanet detection is quasi-static speckles. Quasi-static speckles originate from slowly evolving non-common path aberrations (NCPA). The purpose this work to present a proof-of-concept on-sky demonstration spatial Linear Dark Field Control (LDFC). ultimate goal LDFC stabilize point spread function (PSF) ...

APhA, its pharmacy partners, and community pharmacies have long argued that PBMs working with Medicare Part D plan sponsors’ use of retroactive direct indirect remuneration (DIR) fees cheats beneficiaries, forces to close their doors, endangers access pharmacist-provided care. After years unsuccessful attempts get relief via legislation or regulation, APhA has signed on as an equal partner in a...