PURPOSE The study aims to review systematically the quality of evidence supporting seizure detection devices. The unpredictable nature of seizures is distressing and disabling for sufferers and carers. If a seizure can be reliably detected then the patient or carer could be alerted. It could help prevent injury and death. METHODS A literature search was completed. Forty three of 120 studies f...

DNA barcode sequences were developed from 557 mesopelagic and upper bathypelagic teleost specimens collected in waters off Atlantic Canada. Confident morphological identifications were available for 366 specimens, of 118 species and 93 genera, which yielded 328 haplotypes. Five of the species were novel to the Barcode of Life Database (BOLD). Most of the 118 species conformed to expectations of...

We combined conventional dietary sampling (2002) with stable isotope analysis of nitrogen (δ15N) and carbon (δ13C) in feathers of Leach’s storm-petrels Oceanodroma leucorhoa (2001 and 2002) to investigate temporal, sexand age-related variation in diet and trophic position, at Baccalieu Island, Newfoundland, Canada. Nestlings are fed mainly fish and crustaceans (ca. 90 and 9% by mass, respective...

Maerl beds are sensitive biogenic habitats built by an accumulation of loose-lying, non-geniculate coralline algae. While these habitats are considered hot-spots of marine biodiversity, the number and distribution of maerl-forming species is uncertain because homoplasy and plasticity of morphological characters are common. As a result, species discrimination based on morphological features is n...

Until recently, polar night constituted truly a “ mare incognitum ” of our times. Yet, the first records from this very little-explored period showcased surprisingly rich and active ecosystem. This investigation aims to reveal level scavenger activity during both Arctic day. It compares shallow-water scavenging fauna observed two contrasting seasons (winter vs. summer) in high fjord (Kongsfjord...

Mesopelagic fish populations are characterised by high species richness and abundance, have been identified as important contributors to the active carbon fluxes in open ocean. We report variability communities of mesopelagic between five zones around Iberian Peninsula, i.e. Balears Alboran Mediterranean, Cadiz, Lisboa Galicia Atlantic. Day night samples were collected from 7 layers water colum...

Pathogens have important effects on host life-history traits, but the magnitude of these effects is often strongly context-dependent. The outcome of an interaction between a host and an infectious agent is often associated with the level of stress experienced by the host. Ranavirus causes disease and mortality in amphibian populations in various locations around the world, but most known cases ...

miRNA 5 end being fully complementary to the target mRNA, with binding of the 3 miRNA end varying. Many predictive algorithms have been produced to identify potential miRNA-target pairs. However many ignore full and near-full complementarity miRNA-mRNA pairs as they are considered unusual or potential false positives. However miRNA-mRNA pairs of this nature have been previously verified as func...