Habitat preferences for juvenile loggerhead turtles in the North Pacific were investigated with data from two several-year long tagging programs, using 224 satellite transmitters deployed on wild and captive-reared turtles. Animals ranged between 23 and 81 cm in straight carapace length. Tracks were used to investigate changes in temperature preferences and speed of the animals with size. Avera...

In this paper, we prove that any BL-general fuzzy automaton (BL-GFA) and its quotient have the same behavior. In addition, we obtain the minimal quotient BL-GFA and minimal quotient transformation of the BL-GFA, considering the notion of maximal admissible partition. Furthermore, we show that the number of input symbols and time complexity of the minimal quotient transformation of a BL-GFA are ...

This research was conducted to investigate the effect of inclusion of wheat bran (as a source of insoluble fiber) in a barley-based diet, fed from 11 to 42 d of age, on villus morphology of jejunum, serum cholesterol level, abdominal fat pad and growth performance of broiler chickens. Three hundred and thirty six 10-d-old female Ross 308 chicks were allocated to six diets with four replicates o...

In this paper, we show that for any BL-general L-fuzzy automaton (BL-GLFA) there exists a complete deterministic accessible reduced BL-general L-fuzzy automaton that recognizing the behavior of the BL-GLFA. Also, we prove that for any finite realization β, there exists a minimal complete deterministic BL-GLFA recognizing β. We prove any complete deterministic accessible reduced BL-GLFA is a min...

We present H-band (1.65 µm) imaging of 23 low redshift (z ≤ 0.3) BL Lac objects that were previously investigated by us in the optical R-band. For all the observed objects, the host galaxy is clearly detected and well represented by an elliptical model, with average scale length R(e) = 7.2±3.6 kpc and average absolute magnitude M(H) =-25.9±0.6. BL Lac hosts are therefore luminous (massive) elli...