spiders are poorly studied in iran, based on the latest studies the spider fauna of iran includes 394 species in 126 genera belonging to 36 families. considering the climatic and geographical variation of iran, it can be assumed that iran has a rich spider fauna compared to the adjacent countries. the present study seeks to take a new step in the ongoing active research of iranian spider fauna....

The role of nutrition is especially important in certain ‘lifestyle’ diseases that impact disproportionately on ethnic minority populations. The aim of this paper is to review the evidence of risk, health outcomes and interventions for certain diseases that affect the UK’s largest ethnic minority group (South Asians) in order to help professionals better address the needs of this diverse popula...

High levels of genetic diversity exist among natural isolates of the bacterium Pseudomonas fluorescens, and are especially elevated around the replication terminus of the genome, where strain-specific genes are found. In an effort to understand the role of genetic variation in the evolution of Pseudomonas, we analyzed 31,106 base substitutions from 45 mutation accumulation lines of P. fluoresce...

Methods: Data on the sexual behavior, sexual attitudes, educational experiences and demographics of 2,087 never-married metropolitan males aged 17–19 from the 1979 National Survey of Young Men and the 1988 and 1995 waves of the National Survey of Adolescent Males were analyzed through multivariate methods to examine factors that predict sexual behavior as well as those that predict sexual attit...

There is increasing evidence that pregnancy alters the function of drug-metabolizing enzymes and drug transporters in a gestationalstage and tissue-specific manner. In vivo probe studies have shown that the activity of several hepatic cytochrome P450 enzymes, such as CYP2D6 and CYP3A4, is increased during pregnancy, whereas the activity of others, such as CYP1A2, is decreased. The activity of s...

The rates of oxygen consumption and carbon dioxide release of primitive hunters and weaver spiders, the Chilean Recluse spider Loxosceles laeta Nicolet (Araneae: Sicariidae) and the Chilean Tiger spider Scytodes globula Nicolet (Araneae: Scytodidae), are analyzed, and their relationship with body mass is studied. The results are compared with the metabolic data available for other spiders. A lo...

(1) True/False [14 points, 2 each] For each answer provide a one sentence explanation. a) Aries could do " time travel " if you kept the whole log and a set of archived snapshots. True. Time travel is the ability to go back to previous point in " serialization " time (which is well defined for ACID transactions). You can start from a fuzzy snapshot and roll forward to the target time using the ...

Reduced-representation sequencing (RRS) has made it possible to identify hundreds thousands of genetic markers for phylogenomic analysis the testing phylogenetic hypotheses in non-model taxa. The use customized probes capture (i.e., ultraconserved element (UCE) approach) further boosted efficiency collecting markers. Three UCE probe sets pertaining spiders (Araneae) have been published, includi...