Any use of trade, product, or firm names is for descriptive purposes only and does not imply endorsement by the U.S. Government. Tables Table 1. Sample sizes before and after the exclusion of genetic outliers for collection sites by estuary and site within estuary. Table 2. Analysis of Molecular Variance (AMOVA), based on 87 AFLP markers, for Litopenaeus vannamei populations collected from mult...

Internet information services are developed everywhere. Such servicesinclude content generation and functionality support that have to bemodeled in a consistent way. Here, we show how concepts of conceptualmodeling can be used for systematic development of Internet sites.We give an introduction into our methodology of modeling Internetapplications resulting in the Cottbu...

blood supply chain management is one of the mainchallenges in healthcare system. optimal locationof blood donation camps is one of the key factors in optimizing the bloodsupply chain. disruption in location of blood donation camps because ofdisasters will have a negative impact on the entire supply chain. thispaper develops a generalized network optimization model for the complex supplychain of...

Four five-skin alkaloid extracts of the Madagascan poison frog Mantella baroni from three disturbed collection sites were compared with four five-skin extracts from three undisturbed sites. The number of alkaloids (diversity) was significantly different in M. baroni between undisturbed and disturbed collection sites, with more alkaloids generally being found in frogs from disturbed sites. Two u...

BACKGROUND The choice between paper data collection methods and electronic data collection (EDC) methods has become a key question for clinical researchers. There remains a need to examine potential benefits, efficiencies, and innovations associated with an EDC system in a multi-center medical record review study. METHODS A computer-based automated menu-driven system with 658 data fields was ...

introduction: consumers have referred to the web to learn how they can improve their health, prevent disease and learn details about specific diseases. while efforts are being made to monitor information found on the web especially with the emergence of her: electronic health record in iran, they are not enough to cover every web site with health information. as a result, it was decided to eval...

in february and march 2005, the archaeological survey of righ saray desert in the northern part of varzaneh was conducted. ancient rigsray is an area which has been buried by the sandy dunes at the western margin of the marsh gavkhoni. during this project nearly 100 archaeological sites were identified and recorded. one of the most important sites identified by the survey is saba 9 which is the...