Scavengers provide significant nature's contributions to people (NCP), including disease control through carcass removal, but their non-material NCP are rarely considered. For the first time, we assess extent and value of provided by European avian scavengers a scavenger-based tourism at Pyrenean supplementary feeding sites (SFS). Using two-step cluster analysis, two different types visitor wer...

Only very limited information regarding the protective effects of the superoxide anion scavenger on chronic intermittent hypoxia-induced cardiac apoptosis is available. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effects of the superoxide anion scavenger on cardiac apoptotic and prosurvival pathways in rats with sleep apnea. Forty-two Sprague-Dawley rats were divided into three groups, rats wi...

Scavenger receptors on sinusoidal liver endothelial cells (SECs) eliminate potentially harmful modified proteins circulating through the liver. It was shown recently that aldehyde-modified proteins bind to scavenger receptors and are associated with the development/progression of alcoholic liver diseases. For these studies, rat livers were perfused in situ with 125I-formaldehyde-bovine serum al...

The class A scavenger receptors are phagocytic pattern recognition receptors that are well represented in vertebrate genomes. The high level of conservation among vertebrates implies that this is an evolutionarily conserved family of receptors and indicates the presence of a common ancestral gene. The identity of this ancestral gene is not clear, as it appears that many of the domains of the sc...

There has been much interest in analyzing genome-scale DNA sequence data to infer population histories, but the inference methods developed hitherto are limited in model complexity and computational scalability. Here, we present an e cient, flexible statistical method that can utilize whole-genome sequence data from multiple populations to infer complex demographic models involving population s...

Title: “Development of New Monoclonal Antibodies To Identify Novel Scavenger Receptors On Murine

A range of linear conjugated polymers is reported that promote simultaneous photocatalytic CO2 reduction and proton with a sacrificial hole-scavenger.

This paper describes the UMass Lowell entry into the Scavenger Hunt Competition at the AAAI-2005 Robot Competition and Exhibition. The scavenger hunt entry was built on top of the system we have been developing for urban search and rescue (USAR) research. The system includes new behaviors and behavior sequencing, vision algorithms and sensor processing algorithms, all used to locate the objects...