One of the most important food problems of India and many other east and south-east Asian countries, in general, is the provision of adequate amounts of cereals in the diet to meet the caloric requirements of the people. The total production of food grains has been steadily increasing as a result of improved methods of agriculture, but the demand from the rapidly growing population has also cor...

How animals manage their oxygen stores during diving and other breath-hold activities has been a topic of debate among physiologists for decades. Specifically, while the behavior of free-ranging diving animals suggests that metabolism during submersion must be primarily aerobic in nature, no studies have been able to determine their rate of oxygen consumption during submersion (Vo(2)d) and henc...

For land-breeding marine organisms such as seabirds, knowledge about their habitat use has mainly been gained through studies of breeding individuals that are constrained to return frequently to their breeding grounds. In this study we set out to measure whether: a) habitat selection in the non-breeding period predicts habitat selection in the breeding period, and b) whether breeding individual...

Despite the enormous amount of data available on the importance of the gastrointestinal (GI) microbiota in vertebrate (especially mammals), information on the GI microbiota of seabirds remains incomplete. As with many seabirds, penguins have a unique digestive physiology that enables them to store large reserves of adipose tissue, protein, and lipids. This study used quantitative real-time poly...

Ehram is a type of clothing used in outwear by women for covering or protection from cold. As result shearing the wool sheep, cleaning it its dirt, drying laying and spinning it, ehram yarns are prepared woven on wooden shuttle handloom. The colors consist natural sheep such as beige (coffee with milk folk language), white, purple, black. There also many types embroidery- ornament weaving. Thes...

Populations of the macaroni penguin Eudyptes chrysolophus and eastern rockhopper E. filholi breeding at Marion Island (Prince Edward Islands) in sub-Antarctic Indian Ocean decreased from 1994 to 2018. We examined their diets when rearing chicks during this period. There was substantial overlap two species, with crustaceans, dominated by euphausiids Thysanoessa vicina Euphausia vallentini, makin...

1 Division of Population Genetics, National Institute of Genetics, Research Organization of Information and Sytems, 1111 Yata, Mishima, Shizuoka, 411-8540, Japan 2 Department of Genetics, School of Life Sciences, Graduate University of Advanced Studies, 1111 Yata, Mishima, Shizuoka, 411-8540, Japan 3 Current Address: VALWAY Technology Center, NEC Soft, Ltd.,1-18-6 Shinkiba, Koto-ku, Tokyo, 136-...

Introduction The Creativity and Cognition Research Studios (C&CRS) were established for the purposes of developing new art and technology projects and to conduct research into the creative process. In the COSTART Project 1998-2003 an innovative approach to the study of technology-based art founded on practice-led research methods has been developed. The work centers on the practice of art makin...