This publication should be cited as follows: Frick, M., Panagopoulou A., Rees A. F. and K. Williams (compilers). 2006. Book of Abstracts. Twenty Sixth Annual Symposium on Sea Turtle Biology and Conservation. International Sea Turtle Society, Athens, Greece. 376 pp. This publication can be freely downloaded from: http://www.seaturtle.org/ists/ Hard copies can be obtained by writing to: ARCHELON,...

Formal semantics states that the meanings of phrases are composed from constituent parts and syntax. Little is known about how composition neurally implemented. We studied ERP behavioural responses to determiner-adjective-noun phrases. assessed effects typicality denotation, using intersective (typical: “A green turtle”, atypical: “An orange turtle”) or subsective adjectives slow fast turtle”)....

This publication should be cited as follows: Frick, M., Panagopoulou A., Rees A. F. and K. Williams (compilers). 2006. Book of Abstracts. Twenty Sixth Annual Symposium on Sea Turtle Biology and Conservation. International Sea Turtle Society, Athens, Greece. 376 pp. This publication can be freely downloaded from: http://www.seaturtle.org/ists/ Hard copies can be obtained by writing to: ARCHELON,...

A turtle sequence is a word constructed from an alphabet of two letters: F , which represents the forward motion of a turtle in the plane, and L, which represents a counterclockwise turn. In this paper, we investigate such sequences and establish links between the combinatoric properties of words and the geometric properties of the curves they generate. In particular, we classify periodic turtl...

Two sea turtle species nest in the Mediterranean, the green turtle and the loggerhead turtle. Leatherbacks are widely distributed in the Mediterranean, although they do not have any permanent nesting area. Two other species, the hawksbill and the Kemp’s ridley turtle only occur occasionally. Available information on sea turtle populations in the Mediterranean Sea, including distribution, popula...

Turtles are characterized by their shell, composed of a dorsal carapace and a ventral plastron. The carapace first appears as the turtle-specific carapacial ridge (CR) on the lateral aspect of the embryonic flank. Accompanying the acquisition of the shell, unlike in other amniotes, hypaxial muscles in turtle embryos appear as thin threads of fibrous tissue. To understand carapacial evolution fr...

Historical global declines of megaherbivores from marine ecosystems have hitherto contributed to an understanding of seagrass meadow production dominated by detrital pathways — a paradigm increasingly being questioned by recent re-evaluations of the importance of herbivory. Recoveries in green turtle populations at some locations provide an ideal opportunity to examine effects of high megaherbi...

OBJECTIVE To describe a coelioscopic-assisted prefemoral oophorectomy technique for use in chelonians. DESIGN Descriptive report. ANIMALS 11 adult female turtles (6 red-eared sliders, 2 box turtles, 1 painted turtle, 1 four-eyed turtle, and 1 Chinese red-necked pond turtle). Five turtles required oophorectomy because of reproductive tract disease; the remaining 6 underwent elective oophorec...

A new type of Authoring System NeGAS for 3DCG animation is developed in which a user can easily manipulate three dimensional objects in 3DCG space on the computer. This system is described using an object oriented three dimensional Logo language called o3logo developed by us. The user can manipulate objects comfortably with the help of the turtle metaphor by using o3logo programming, programmin...