Amongst Greek and Roman athletes it was commonly supposed that the presence of the spleen was a hindrance to their power of running, and they used certain drugs which were thought to have the effect of diminishing or dissolving the organ. With the same object Hippocrates advised the application of a preparation of mushrooms. In support of this supposed influence of the spleen some surgeons spra...

Gattan (Barbus xanthopterus Heckel) was artificially propagated in marine science center fish hatchery- University of Basrah, During Spring 2009. The brooders were collected from Al-Huwaizah Marsh (which bring to the hatchery directly) and Al-Therthar reservoir reared earthen ponds). efforts collect Al- Kut dam failed, because water shortage. ranged between 1500-6500 gr weight II-V year age. go...

Colour is a key element in the discrimination and matching of textile fibres for forensic purposes. Two aspects of research aimed at developing an autcmated forensic textile fibre matching system by colour computer vision are outlined. The segnentation procedure is described. It is based on a mult{resolution image format and incorporates progressive plan refinement. Filters for building the mil...

Determining the extent of reproductive isolation in cryptic species with dynamic geographic ranges can yield important insights into the processes that generate and maintain genetic divergence in the absence of severe geographic barriers. We studied mating patterns, propensity to hybridize in nature and subsequent fertilization rates, as well as survival and development of hybrid F1 offspring f...