Received Oct 2, 1998. Received revised Jan 13, 1999. Accepted for publication Jan 13, 1999. From the Division of Child Neurology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas (Dr Roach), Dallas, TX; the Division of Pediatric Neurology, University of Connecticut at Connecticut Children’s Medical Center (Dr DiMario), Hartford, CT; the Johnson Neurological Clinic (Dr Kandt), High Poin...

The Droblem of the abru~t change of the direction of a crack, DroDagating with high velocity, is studied in the resent work. The study is based on a unified ao~roach of the directional instability ~henomena, which accomDany running cracks. According to this ao~roach, the running ti^ is simulated by a reb branched configuration, consisted of two microcracks of arbitrary lengths and orientations....

Flow-through toxicity tests were conducted on common freshwater fishes: rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss), three-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus), roach (Rutilus rutilus), perch (Perca fluviatilis) and dace (Leuciscus leuciscus), to estimate their sensitivity to acute toxicity of nickel. The 96-hour median lethal concentration (96-hour LC50) values obtained from the tests ranged fr...

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In the present study, classification trees (CTs-J48 algorithm) were used to study the occurrence of roach in rivers in Flanders (Belgium). The presence/absence of roach was modelled based on a set of river characteristics. The predictive performance of the CTs models was assessed based on the percentage of Correctly Classified Instances (CCI) and Cohen's kappa statistics. To find the best model...

Recently, several studies indicated that species from the Ponto-Caspian region may be evolutionarily predisposed to become nonindigenous species (NIS); however, origin of NIS established in different regions has rarely been compared to confirm these statements. More importantly, if species from certain area/s are proven to be better colonizers, management strategies to control transport vectors...

We describe here the first fossil otoliths from the Middle Miocene (Badenian and Sarmatian) of Belgrade, Serbia. They were obtained from Lower Badenian outcrops at Slanci and from upper Badenian and Sarmatian sediments recovered from four shallow wells near the village of Barajevo. The otoliths from the Lower Badenian of Slanci represent fishes typical for an open marine environment, characteri...

The content of heavy metals in fish different ecological groups the conditions Argazinsky reservoir (Russia) has been studied, its safety when used as a product nutrition was given. material study “local” (bream, pike, perch, roach, whitefish) caught by fishermen. determined atomic absorption method. Compared to muscular tissue, bone tissue found accumulate more manganese, zinc, cadmium, lead, ...

Surveys of U.K. rivers have shown a high incidence of sexual disruption in populations of wild roach (Rutilus rutilus) living downstream from wastewater treatment works (WwTW), and the degree of intersex (gonads containing both male and female structural characteristics) has been correlated with the concentration of effluent in those rivers. In this study, we investigated feminized responses to...