We use approximately 1900bp of mitochondrial (ND2) and nuclear (c-mos and Rag-1) DNA sequence data to recover phylogenetic relationships among 58 species and 26 genera of Eugongylus group scincid lizards from New Caledonia, Lord Howe Island, New Zealand, Australia and New Guinea. Taxon sampling for New Caledonian forms was nearly complete. We find that the endemic skink genera occurring on New ...

DNA damage is tightly associated with various biological and pathological processes, such as aging and tumorigenesis. Although detection of DNA damage is attracting increasing attention, only a limited number of methods are available to quantify DNA lesions, and these techniques are tedious or only detect global DNA damage. In this study, we present a high-sensitivity long-run real-time PCR tec...

The assertion of Lucifer, that the pre-Adamite world was also peopled by rational beings much more intelligent than man, and proportionably powerful to the mammoth, etc., etc., is, of course, a poetical fiction to help him to make out his case. Lord Byron señala a unas lagunas bíblicas y las utiliza para cuestionar los principios de nuestra fe y debatir la naturaleza de la maldad. También, las ...

Among the many peculiarities that were dubbed “paradoxes” by well meaning statisticians, the one reported by Frederic M. Lord in 1967 has earned a special status. Although it can be viewed, formally, as a version of Simpson’s paradox (Arah, 2008; Tu et al., 2008; Pearl, 2014b) its reputation has gone much worse. Unlike Simpson’s reversal, Lord’s is easier to state, harder to disentangle (Wainer...

of this intermediate phase in the development of medical practice and philosophy. Of Butler's MSS. in the Library of Clare College, the six which are medical, and one other, are here transcribed and discussed. In these papers he appears as a physician not tied to any theoretical system, but with ideas pointing to the testing of remedies by trials and theory by experience, to a concern with the ...

Bernstein et al. have proposed a new permutation,Gimli [1], which aims to provide simple and performant implementations on a wide variety of platforms ranging from the AVR ATmega and ARM-Cortex to the Intel Haswell. In a festive spirit of retrocomputing, this brief paper reports such a simple and (somewhat) performant implementation on the almost Third-Age-of-Middle-earth-dating TRS-80.