Freshwater turtles possess high hypoxia tolerance relating to their diving behaviour and ability to hibernate for several months without access to air (Jackson, 2000, 2002). While sustained cardiac function during hypoxia is essential for survival (Belkin, 1968), cardiac performance is markedly reduced and may depend on the high circulating levels of catecholamines during anoxia (White and Ross...

Ali Iranmanesh General Chair On behalf of the ISQED 2003 conference and technical committees, we are pleased to welcome you to the 4 International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design, ISQED 2003. Due to the overwhelming success of the first 3 conferences, despite the slump in the IC industry last year, and the unique value that it offers, IEEE ISQED is gaining recognition in both academia an...

W ecosystems are highly productive and valued for numerous reasons including wildlife habitat, biodiversity, water quantity and quality, and human uses. They are also relatively small ecosystems, occupying less than 1% of the state. Because livestock are thought to damage the physical, chemical and biological integrity of these systems, they are subject to government regulations, ranging from s...

For a French neurologist whose neurological training has been carried out at the school of the Salpetriere, Paris, Queen Square seems to be, in a certain way, London's Salpetriere. This assumption may be partly true, since these two famous hospitals have been for years dedicated to the nursing and to the study of the diseases of the nervous system, and both have a rich and peculiar tradition an...

Nutrition is vital in fish farming because feed costs represent 40–50 % of the total variable production costs (SHANG, 1992; CRAIG and HELFRICH, 2002). For several decades, fishmeal has been used as the main source of protein in fish feeds (TACON and JACKSON, 1985; TACON, 1993; EL-SAIDY and GABER, 2004; ALCESTE and JORY, 2000). However, the periodically occurring low availability, competition a...

(paper pages 133-156) zagros active fold-thrust belt lies on the northern margin of the arabian continental crust it is a young fold-thrust mountain belt currently shortening, thickening and uplifting as a result of the collision of the arabian and iranian plates. rethickening of crust during collisional orogenies could have been carried out by reversal of fault motion along the mesozoic normal...