Designing conservation strategies that protect wide-ranging marine species is a significant challenge, but integrating regional telemetry datasets and synthesizing modeled movements and behavior offer promise for uncovering distinct at-sea areas that are important habitats for imperiled marine species. Movement paths of 10 satellite-tracked female loggerheads (Caretta caretta) from three separa...

Shaping and bending of the neural plate are cardinal events of neurulation. These processes are initiated in avian embryos shortly after the onset of gastrulation and concluded concomitantly with the completion of gastrulation. The epiblast undergoes extensive morphogenetic movements during gastrulation and neurulation, but the directions, distances, rates, mechanisms and roles of such rearrang...

Manta rays (Genus Manta) are economically important for fisheries and tourism in Indonesia. These species have been listed by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature Red List as Vulnerable to extinction; therefore, human exploitation of manta rays must be regulated. A better understanding of the habitat use and movement patterns of manta rays in Indonesia is needed in order to em...

Young loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) from eastern Florida, USA, undertake a transoceanic migration in which they gradually circle the Sargasso Sea before returning to the North American coast. Loggerheads possess a 'magnetic map' in which regional magnetic fields elicit changes in swimming direction along the migratory pathway. In some geographic areas, however, ocean currents move mo...

BACKGROUND Phantom limb and complex regional pain syndrome type 1 (CRPS1) are characterized by changes in cortical processing and organization, perceptual disturbances, and poor response to conventional treatments. Graded motor imagery is effective for a small subset of patients with CRPS1. OBJECTIVE To investigate whether graded motor imagery would reduce pain and disability for a more gener...

OBJECTIVE To determine why patients with Huntington disease are apparently unaware of their involuntary movements. DESIGN Correlative study using a subjective report questionnaire of physical symptoms and objective measures of neurologic and cognitive dysfunction. PATIENTS Forty patients with Huntington disease attending a regional Huntington disease clinic. RESULTS Patients were poor at ...

There are growing calls within public health for researchers and practitioners working to improve and protect the public's health to become more involved in politics and advocacy. Such a move takes practitioners and researchers beyond the traditional, evidence-based public health paradigm, raising potential dilemmas and risks for those who undertake such work. Drawing on the example of the Peop...

Bluetongue (BT) can cause severe livestock losses and large direct and indirect costs for farmers. To propose targeted control strategies as alternative to massive vaccination, there is a need to better understand how BT virus spread in space and time according to local characteristics of host and vector populations. Our objective was to assess, using a modelling approach, how spatiotemporal he...

In this study, we propose a novel endoscopic manipulation system that is controlled by a surgeon’s eye movements. The optical axis direction of the endoscopic manipulator is altered intuitively based on the surgeon’s pupil movements. A graphical user interface was developed by dividing the monitor screen into several areas with shape boundaries, so that the movement direction of the endoscope c...

BACKGROUND/AIMS The paucity of knowledge regarding gastrointestinal motility in patients with neuroendocrine tumors and carcinoid diarrhea re-stricts targeted treatment. 3D-Transit is a novel, minimally invasive, ambulatory method for description of gastrointestinal motility. The system has not yet been evaluated in any group of patients. We aimed to test the performance of 3D-Transit in patien...