The first winter in the life cycle of Antarctic krill Euphausia superba is a critical period in which larval survival and recruitment to the adult population are highly sensitive to environmental conditions, yet little is known about larval physiological dynamics during this period. An individual-based model was developed to investigate patterns of larval krill growth and condition factor in re...

the feeding habit and developmental stages of cunaxa setriostris (hermann) on most injurious mite, tetranychus ludeni zacher was investigated in varanasi region, uttar pradesh, india. the female of c. setirostris as a dominant species of cunaxid mite completed its life cycle on t. ludeni within 27.5 ± 13.55 days having one larval followed by three nymphal stages. whereas, the male sex of the sa...

We conducted a transplant study in which embryonic southern toads (Bufo terrestris) were held in a site polluted with coal ash (site AB; containing As, Cd, Cr, Cu, Se, and other elements) and a reference site (site R) through hatching and early larval development. To examine the remainder of the larval period, surviving larvae in AB were then transplanted to R and back-transplanted to AB, where...

Hormonal control of post-embryonic morphogenesis is well established, but it is not clear how differences in developmental endocrinology between species may underlie animal diversity. We studied this issue by comparing metamorphic thyroid hormone (TH) physiology and gonad development across spadefoot toad species divergent in metamorphic rate. Tissue TH content, in vitro tail tip sensitivity to...

A simple and practical all-fiber approach for realizing ultrafast optical differentiators is proposed and numerically tested. In particular, it is demonstrated that first-order and second-order temporal differentiation of an arbitrary optical waveform can be realized by simply propagating the waveform through a suitable uniform longperiod grating photoinscribed in the core of an optical fiber (...

Critical buildings such as hospitals and police stations must remain functional immediately following a major earthquake event. Due to earthquake effects, they often experience large strains, leading to progressive collapses. Therefore, monitoring and assessing the large strain condition of critical buildings is of paramount importance to post-earthquake responses and evacuations in earthquake-...