Human-driven declines of apex predators can trigger widespread impacts throughout ecological communities. Reduced apex predator occupancy or activity can release mesopredators from intraguild competition, with unknown repercussions on the ecological community. As exurban development continues to expand worldwide, it is important to document how mesopredators are impacted by the combined influen...

BACKGROUND/AIM   Intrusive luxation in the permanent dentition is an uncommon injury but it is considered one of the most severe types of dental trauma because of the risk for damage to the periodontal ligament, pulp and alveolar bone. Management of intrusive luxation in the permanent dentition is controversial. The purpose of this study was to evaluate pulp survival and periodontal healing in ...

BACKGROUND During heart development, the ventricular activation sequence changes from a base-to-apex to an apex-to-base pattern. We investigated the possibility of impulse propagation through remnants of atrioventricular (AV) connections in quail hearts. METHODS AND RESULTS In 86 hearts (group A, HH30-34, n=15; group B, HH35-44, n=65; group C, 5 to 6 months, n=6) electrodes were positioned at...

o bjectives: correct determination of working length is an important step for suc- cess of endodontic therapy. conventional radiography has limitations in providing the accurate location of apical foramen. for this reason, electronic apex locators (eals) were developed to shorten the treatment time and decrease the radiation dose. the aim of this study was to evaluate the accuracy of root zx ea...

The PEA (Physiologically Explicit Approach) cotton model is a mechanistic, L-system (Hanan 1997) model of growth processes utilising carbohydrate production, translocation and allocation. In Thornby et al (2003), we used the PEA cotton model to investigate the phenomenon of compensatory growth in partially defoliated cotton seedlings. Experiments showed that the development rate of cotton seedl...

Cotton (Gossypium spp.) belonging to the genus Gossypium in the family Malvaceae. Cotton is an important fibre crop of global importance. It is grown in tropical and subtropical regions of more than 80 countries with an annual production of 20 million tonnes. It is an important source of oil and high quality protein meal and plays a significant role in the national economy. Among the cotton pro...

immature teeth have a large apical opening and thin divergent or parallel dentinal walls; hence, with conventional needle irrigation there is a very high possibility of extrusion. this study was done to compare the apical extrusion of naocl in an immature root delivered using endovac and needle irrigation.eighty freshly extracted maxillary central incisors were decoronated followed by access ca...