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Differentiating salient histopathologic changes from normal anatomic features or tissue artifacts can be decidedly challenging, especially for the novice fish pathologist. As a consequence, findings of questionable accuracy may be reported...
2015-04 (iso8601)
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Several behavioral studies have suggested that rarity is critical for enabling irrelevant, salient objects to capture attention. We tested this hypothesis using the event-related potential (ERP) component, N2pc, thought to reflect attentional...
2015-05-13 (iso8601)
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Radioecology observes the movement of radioactive isotopes throughout the environment. For radioecology, locations of study are limited to areas accidentally contaminated from a number of sources. The Chalk River Laboratories of Atomic Energy of...
2015-04-14 (iso8601)
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The present study involved the development and evaluation of an American history supplemental curriculum which was aimed at teaching high school students an American Indian perspective to the nation's history, while sustaining learning of the...
1994 (iso8601)
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The coexistence problem occurs when a single wireless body area network (WBAN) is located within a multiple-WBAN
environment. This causes WBANs to suffer from severe channel interference that degrades the communication performance of each
WBAN....
2015 (iso8601)
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Rickettsial-like cells are reported from the body cavity of the Myanmar amber larval tick, Cornupalpatum burmanicum (Ixodida: Ixodidae). These cells are characterized and described in a new collective fossil genus erected for putative rickettsial...
2015-01 (iso8601)
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Key message Leyland cypress, an intergeneric hybrid, produces the same volatile heartwood compounds as its parental taxa, yellow-cedar and Monterrey cypress. However, the proportion of total sesquiterpenes and some of the individual components...
2015-05 (iso8601)
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2015-04-30 (iso8601)
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2015-04-30 (iso8601)
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In this study we investigated the role of astragaloside IV (AS-IV), one of the major active constituents purified from the Chinese
medicinal herb Astragalus membranaceus, in LPS-induced acute inflammatory responses in mice in vivo and examined...
2015 (iso8601)
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As computational power increases, so does the desire to use fluid-structure interaction (FSI) software to design complex systems and components such as fuel plates. Presently, an effort is underway to support the design and qualification of a new...
2015-04-24 (iso8601)
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Crested wheatgrass (Agropyron cristatum [L] Gaertm) has been seeded on more than 5 million hectares in
western North America because it establishes more readily than native bunchgrasses. Currently, there is
substantial interest in reestablishing...
2015-03 (iso8601)
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Mice under standard laboratory conditions are generally housed between 20 and 24C, which are below their lower critical temperature of ~ 30C. When the ambient temperature falls below a mammal's lower critical temperature, the metabolic rate is...
2011 (iso8601)
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A major goal in ecology is to understand how processes observed on single habitat patches "scale up" to predict population- or metapopulation-scale dynamics. This issue is especially critical for marine species with widely-dispersing, planktonic...
2007 (iso8601)
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Constructing a panorama from a set of videos is a long-standing problem in computer
vision. A panorama represents an enhanced still-image representation of an entire scene
captured in a set of videos, where each video shows only a part of the...
2015-05-22 (iso8601)
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Keepaway is a collection of poems that examines a woman's relationship with language, intimacy, family, the body, and memory. While Keepaway may be classified as a coming-of-age collection, its speaker questions this process's gendered...
2015-04-30 (iso8601)
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Background: Like other transformative healthcare initiatives, patient-centered medical home (PCMH) implementation requires substantial investments of time and resources. Even though PCMH and PCMH-like models are being implemented by multiple...
2015-04-19 (iso8601)
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Fungi in the genus Ascosphaera (Ascomycota: Eurotiomycetes: Ascosphaerales) cause chalkbrood disease in larvae of bees. Here, we report the first-ever detection of the fungus in adult bumble bees that were raised in captivity for studies on colony...
2015-04-17 (iso8601)
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The abiotic environment has strong influences on the growth, survival, behavior, and ecology of aquatic organisms. Biotic interactions and species life histories interact with abiotic factors to structure the food web. One measure of food-web...
2015-04-16 (iso8601)
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Many ecologists and environmental scientists witnessing the scale of current environmental change are becoming
increasingly alarmed about how humanity is pushing the boundaries of the Earth’s systems beyond sustainable levels. The world urgently...
2015 (iso8601)
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2015-03 (iso8601)
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A study was conducted to evaluate the developmental toxicity of three commonly detected mycotoxins in food (deoxynivalenol, patulin, and zearalenone) using the zebrafish (Danio rerio) model. Mycotoxin exposures were carried out at five...
2015-05-26 (iso8601)
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Problem: The current national focus on college student success highlights the need to increase
the graduation rates of students of color. To date, qualitative research has shown benefits from
Ethnic Studies courses such as higher levels of student...
2015-04-29 (iso8601)
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The ethics of implant technology is a wide-ranging topic in the field of bioethics. This paper intends to add to the ethical discourse of implant technology by addressing a new class of implants applicable to orthopedic surgery. These new implants...
2015-05-26 (iso8601)
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