The present study was undertaken to investigate the effect of ethanol on the sleep-wake cycle in normal rats and sleep-disturbed rats. In normal rats, no significant difference was observed by ethanol in sleep latency, total awake time and total non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep time, except for total REM sleep time. On the other hand, in sleep-disturbed rats, ethanol at doses of 1 and 2 g/kg...

Arthropod diversity between disturbed and undisturbed habitats was studied. Arthropods are organisms that have six or more jointed legs, there are numerous in species and can be found in several different habitats. In our experiment, we wanted to test if there was a significant difference in arthropod diversity between undisturbed and disturbed areas of South Florida. We focused on two Miami-Da...

The organization of gall on the ovary ofSesamum indicum L induced by the gall midge, Asphondylia sesami Felt, not only affects biochemical equilibrium of the host but also causes disturbed vegetative growth and reduced seed-setting. The toxicity created by the gall maker induces the re-orientation of vasculature Cecidogenetic stimuli lead to excessive hypertrophy and hyperplasy forming the gall...

Accepted for publication 21 December 1992 Abstract Gastric emptying of liquid (orange juice containing technetium-99m ('Tc) labelled antimony sulphide colioid) and solid (570 kcal pancake containing O 5 mm resin microspheres labelled with Indiun-ll ("'-In)) was measured in seven patients with jejunum and no colon (jejunal lengths 30-160 cm), six patients with jejunum in continuity with the colo...

We consider a simple model of stochastic evolution in population games. In our model, each agent occasionally receives opportunities to update his choice of strategy. When such an opportunity arises, the agent selects a strategy that is currently optimal, but only after his payoffs have been randomly perturbed. We prove that the resulting evolutionary process converges to approximate Nash equil...

Analog radio broadcast signals are often disturbed in various ways as experienced in driving situations. These disturbances cover typical short term “pops”, longer noise bursts, short term “mutes”, insertion of so-called “HighCut” (i.e. the attenuation of higher frequencies to mask disturbances) or noticeable stereo/mono switching. These disturbances can be separated in two parts: they are caus...