Certain distinct populations of neurons in the dorsal cochlear nucleus are inhibited by a neural source that is responsive to a wide range of acoustic frequencies. In this study, we examined the glycine immunoreactivity of two types of ventral cochlear nucleus neurons (planar and radiate) in the rat which project to the dorsal cochlear nucleus (DCN) and thus, might be responsible for this inhib...

Mollusk shell formation is a fascinating aspect of biomineralization research. Shell matrix proteins play crucial roles in the control of calcium carbonate crystallization during shell formation in the pearl oyster, Pinctada fucata. Characterization of biomineralization-related genes during larval development could enhance our understanding of shell formation. Genes involved in shell biomineral...

The pearl oyster, Pinctada fucata (P. fucata), is one of the marine bivalves that is predominantly cultured for pearl production. To obtain more genetic information for breeding purposes, we constructed a high-density linkage map of P. fucata and identified quantitative trait loci (QTL) for growth-related traits. One F1 family, which included the two parents, 48 largest progeny and 50 smallest ...

In addition, a UWB antenna is preferentially nondispersive, having a fixed phase center. If waveform dispersion occurs in a predictable fashion it may be possible to compensate for it, but in general it is desirable to radiate similar waveforms in all directions. A logperiodic antenna is an example of a dispersive antenna. Larger scale components radiate low frequency components while smaller s...

Ships and submarines radiate sound into the water as an inevitable by-product of the mechanical energy required to propel them. For military surface vessels the characteritics of the radiated underwater sound can be a critical factor in determining the vulnerability of the vessel to detection, and consequently considerable effort is put into characterising and minimising the radiation from thes...

the objective of this research was to evaluate and to quantify the magnitude of the genotype environment interaction effects on mung bean grain yield and to determine the winning genotype for the test environments. seven mung bean genotypes were tested at three locations for over two years. the grain yield data for each environment (location year combination) was first subjected to analysis of ...

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