Beach seine gear is one of the prominent fishing gears in Nile Perch fishery. Before Nile Perch was introduced to the lake, beach seines the species targeted with beach seine were Tilapia, Bagrus, Haplochromis, Protopterus and Labeo. In 1994, beach seines were banned in Tanzania and by 2004, this particular regulation and others, were harmonized and applied to the entire Lake as a result of imp...

*Correspondence: Devi Stuart-Fox, Zoology Department, The University of Melbourne, Building 147, Royal Parade, Parkville, VIC 3010, Australia e-mail: [email protected] Female signals of reproductive status often comprise both distinctive color patches and behaviors but their relative influence on male courtship investment is unclear. We examined the role of female-specific coloration in sign...

Abstract The Mediterranean cypress ( Cupressus sempervirens ) is an evergreen conifer that belongs to the Cupressaceae, which first plant family whose detailed evolutionary history traces break-up of supercontinent Pangaea roughly 150 million years ago. broad and deep economic socio-cultural significance species began in at least third millennium BCE. This interdisciplinary review highlights tr...

93 This research was supported by Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (2010-0013701 and 2013R1A1A2012013). Received 16 May 2015, Revised 17 June 2015, Accepted 19 June 2015 Correspondence: Samju Cho ([email protected]) Tel: 82-2-2228-4390, Fax: 82-2-2227-7823 cc This is an Open-Access...

The ancient Egyptians believed dreams possessed oracular power—in the Bible, for example, Joseph’s elucidation of Pharaoh’s dream averted seven years of famine. Other cultures have interpreted dreams as inspirational, curative or alternative reality. During the past century, scientists have offered conflicting psychological and neuroscientific explanations for dreams. In 1900, with the publicat...

New insights into the mechanisms of hematopoietic cell transformation by activated receptor tyrosine kinases Short title: Mechanisms of receptor tyrosine kinase activation Federica Toffalini and Jean-Baptiste Demoulin* Université catholique de Louvain, De Duve Institute, Brussels, Belgium. * Correspondence: J.B. Demoulin. Address: de Duve Institute, Université catholique de Louvain, UCL 74.30, ...

Fenglei Li 1, Zhao Chang 1, Qi Tian 1,*, Changzhi Wu 2 and Xiangyu Wang 2 1 College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan 030024, China; [email protected] (F.L.); [email protected] (Z.C.) 2 Australasian Joint Research Centre for Building Information Modelling, School of Built Environment, Curtin University, Perth, WA 6845, Australia; c.wu@curtin...

About 14, 000 years ago, Lake Victoria contained 500 species. Of these original species, 200 have become extinct and 200 are on the endangered species list (DuHamel, 2004). Predation coupled with poor harvesting methods has caused a big economic loss on most Ugandan lakes in particular and the world at large. In this study, we formulate a model based on a standard Lotka-Volterra prey-predator m...

hypoglycemic agent along with metformin. Although the management of diabetes was attempted by the “experts” of the Pharaoah of Egypt 3500 years ago and by Shushruta, the modern times efforts began only in the in the early 1900. In the year 1937, hypoglycemic activity of sulfur compounds was noted, and five years later, Michel Janbon noted hypoglycemia while using antibiotic para amino sulfonami...

I t’s a cool November day near Bologna, Italy. We are strolling through the woods with truffle hunter Mirko Illice and his little dog, Clinto. Clinto runs back and forth among the oak trees sniffing the ground, pausing, then running again. Suddenly, he stops and begins to dig furiously with both paws. “Ah, he’s found an Italian white truffle,” Mirko explains. “He uses both paws only when he fin...