... and Björn Malmqvist TheBiologyof Mangroves Peter F Hogarth TheBiologyof Soft Shores and Estuaries Colin Little TheBiologyofthe Deep Ocean Peter Herring TheBiologyof Lakes and Ponds, ... habitat TheBiologyof Rocky Shores Colin Little and F A Kitching TheBiologyof Polar Habitats G E Fogg TheBiologyof Lakes and Ponds Christer Brönmark and Lars-Anders Hansson TheBiologyof Streams ... Glacier Bay, on the coast of southeast Alaska, is one ofthe 12 THEBIOLOGYOF SOIL best known places for research on soil and ecosystem development because ofthe continuous retreat ofthe glaciers...
... race against the media and surely also against other people The future ofthe adapted mind is the creation of artificial people 401 XIII THE FUTURE OFTHE ADAPTED MIND A feature ofthe adapted ... other societies, and the mere success ofthe industry is a reflection ofthe immense strength ofthe relevant psychological adaptations and mate preferences The strong beliefs among women in the ... number of faces in the brain derives the norm The second hypothesis is the ‘density alone hypothesis’, where the Gestalt is a pointby-point representation in a multidimensional space Darwinian aesthetics...
... The larval development ofthe prawns Macrobrachium equidens and Macrobrachium sp (Decapoda : Palaemonidae), reared in the laboratory Journal of Zoology Proceedings ofthe Zoological Society of ... der Wissenschaften Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe Wien 45: 389426 Holthuis, L B (1950) The Decapoda ofthe Siboga Expedition Part 10 The Palaemonidae collected by the Siboga and Snellius ... Decapoda) from the Xishuangbanna region of Yunnan province, southern China Hydrobiologia, 400: – 41 Cai, Y & P K L Ng (2001) The freshwater decapod crustaceans of Halmahera, Indonesia Journal of Crustacean...
... eight to eighty five and yet the favorite of each age group, N7, had a waist to hip ratio of or 70% So here is the definition of beauty as portrayed by the article The ideal man should be above ... psychologist at the University of Texas studying the attractive traits ofthe female figure His survey on attractive female figures gives an outlook on what men find most attractive According to the results ... waist-hip ratio of or 90% The ideal woman, on the other hand, should have large eyes, a small jaw, chin, and nose, full lips, firm, symmetrical breasts, unblemished skin, and a waist-hip ratio of or 70%...
... in the development of his own ideas In the preface to the French edition of his book The Wisdom ofthe Body, Cannon acknowledged that its main tenet, that the stability ofthe inner medium ofthe ... mammals, the great cetaceans, so spectacularly adapted for life in the sea, are confined to the surface layers ofthe ocean The crushing pressure ofthe seawater, the cold, and the darkness make the ... but if both occur the probability of death is (set at) 1.0 (certainty) Therefore, the overall risk of death is the sum ofthe three products, or 2.1 in 100,000 The bottom part ofthe diagram shows...
... materials along the inside of their axons, or the blood supply that nourishes them from the outside The loss of vision results from the death of these nerve cells The hardness ofthe eye to touch ... interface ofthe cornea (the clear front surface ofthe eye), than at the fluid– tissue–fluid interface ofthe lens Thus, two‐third ofthe focusing of light is done by the cornea and only one‐third by the ... glaucoma, the pressure increase in the aqueous humor in the front ofthe eye is transmitted to the back ofthe eye Although the pressure increase is caused by events in the front ofthe eye, the damage...
... rarity of iGb3 and the dominance ofthe regioisomer Gb3 Furthermore, other than the enzymatic pathways of synthesis and degradation, little is known about the general biologyof iGb3, its subcellular ... Although their precise distribution within the lymphoid organs is still unknown, they reside within the liver sinusoids, which they appear to patrol Their expression of CXCR6 matches the expression of ... reports over the past 10 years, more than 300 of which were published in the past year alone We attempt to organize a critical understanding ofthe general biologyof NKT cells, mainly ofthe predominant...
... membrane ofthe cell walls of Sphingomonas and Escherichia coli The inner leaflet ofthe outer membrane is composed of phospholipids, whereas the outer leaflet is made of LPS for E coli In the case of ... follow the same pre-Tα path as mainstream T cells (120, 134) Therefore, the question arises whether the biased usage of Vβ8, Vβ7, and Vβ2 in mouse (and Vβ11 in human) is due to the inability ofthe ... cells to synthetic iGb3 (26) The other reason is that the developing NKT cell precursors interact with cortical DP thymocytes rather than with epithelial cells, implying that homotypic rather than...
... complicating the task of drawing a clear picture ofthe involvement of NKT cells in noninfectious diseases Type I diabetes The relative deficiency of NKT cells in NOD mice (36, 37), combined with the notion ... explained by the reduced frequency of isletspecific T cells and the general Th2 bias of these mice (219) Likewise, the suppression of diabetes by αGalCer multi-injection regimens could be the mere ... February 2007 12:20 ofthe most physiologically relevant ligands and the structural basis of their recognition by the semi-invariant TCRs These solid advances in fundamental biology should help...
... expression of cathepsin L is essential for NKT cell development Nat Immunol 3:1069–74 113 Makino Y, Kanno R, Koseki H, Taniguchi M 1996 Development of Vα4+ NK T cells in the early stages of embryogenesis ... not thymic epithelial cells can mediate negative selection of NKT cells J Exp Med 197:907–18 137 Xu H, Chun T, Colmone A, Nguyen H, Wang CR 2003 Expression of CD1d under the control of a MHC class ... during the development of Vα14i NKT cells Blood 107:2797–805 163 Atherly LO, Lucas JA, Felices M, Yin CC, Reiner SL, Berg LJ 2006 The Tec family tyrosine kinases Itk and Rlk regulate the development...
... state of knowledge ofthe sensory biologyof vision, hearing, and olfaction in sea turtles 3.2 VISION 3.2.1 MORPHOLOGY AND ANATOMY OFTHE EYE 3.2.1.1 Main Structures ofthe Eye The anatomy ofthe ... organization ofthe main features ofthe retina as well as the spatial variation ofthe photoreceptor cells of large juvenile loggerhead sea turtles (C caretta) On the basis ofthe properties ofthe neural ... past the round window, back to the lateral side ofthe stapes (the direction ofthe fluid is reversed with an outward movement ofthe stapes) A limitation of this circular fluid motion is the added...
... turtles hatch to dig their way to the surface, an energy-intensive effort that often exceeds the gas diffusion capacity ofthe environment as well as the aerobic capacity ofthe hatchlings such ... increasing the likelihood of predation (Stancyk, 1982; Witherington and Salmon, 1992) (Of course, resting at the sand surface also increases the likelihood of predation.) Crawling from the nest to the ... whereas the Indian River Lagoon appears to be the northernmost limit ofthe green turtles’ winter range Leatherback turtles nest on tropical beaches, but are seen as far north as the waters off Newfoundland,...
... throughout most of its range, with the exception ofthe eastern Pacific and the northern Indian Ocean The olive ridley is highly migratory and spends most of its nonbreeding life cycle in the oceanic ... turtles, and these patterns are best understood in the context ofthe locations and sizes of their foraging areas The first pattern is exhibited by leatherbacks and east Pacific olive ridleys These turtles ... satellite telemetry and other electronic technologies for the study of marine turtles, with reference to the first year long tracking of leatherback sea turtles, in Proceedings ofthe Seventeenth Annual...
... program of a nation is comparable to that ofthe U.S is their TED design Currently there are two sets of regulations in the U.S The required minimum size ofthe TED opening differs in the Gulf of ... manage the shrimp fishery in the Gulf of Mexico) require TEDs to prevent the continued drowning of sea turtles in shrimp trawls (Center * Much ofthe discussion on the implementation of TEDs in the ... 340 TheBiologyof Sea Turtles, Vol II In 1988, the U.S Congress mandated a study ofthe causes and significance of turtle mortality in the coastal waters ofthe country A study...
... test results The proportion that tested negative is false negative The more sensitive the test, the fewer false negatives will result The specificity ofthe test measures the ability ofthe test to ... either of these values is less than 100%, the predictive value ofthe test (i.e., how much confidence can be placed in the result being true) will vary, depending on the true prevalence ofthe ... Diagnoses List The next step involves the development of a list of alternative possible causes for each ofthe problems identified In many cases, the cause ofthe problem may not be obvious, and there...