We surveyed 110 country churches in south-western Sweden for presence of brown long-eared bats Plecotus auritus in summer 2016 by visual inspection and/or evening emergence counts. Each church was also classified according to the presence and amount of aesthetic directional lights (flood-lights) aimed on its walls and tower from the outside. Sixty-one of the churches had previously been surveye...

Churches are a trusted resource in African American communities; however, little is known about their presentation of health care information. This study characterized health care information disseminated by 11 African American churches. Content analysis conducted on print media systematically collected over one year used a coding scheme with .77 intercoder reliability. Health care information ...

Computation trees with operation set S f+;?; ;DIV; DIV c g (S-CTs) are considered. DIV denotes integer division, DIV c integer division by constants. We characterize the families of languages L Z Z n that can be recognized by S-CTs, separate the computational capabilities of S-CTs for diierent operation sets S, and prove lower bounds for the depth of such trees.

Bilateral symmetry of flowers is a relevant novelty that has occurred many times throughout the evolution of flowering plants. In Antirrhinum majus, establishment of flower dorso-ventral asymmetry is mainly due to interaction of TCP (CYC and DICH) and MYB (DIV, RAD, and DRIF) transcription factors. In the present study, we characterized 8 DIV-, 4 RAD-, and 2 DRIF-like genes from the transcripto...

In this paper, we examine Black churches located in economically challenged neighborhoods in a northeastern US city. Employing the concepts of the organizational divide and Heek’s designactuality model, we conducted interviews with clergy at seven black churches to understand their level of ICT use and capacity to secure funding from the White House Office of Community and Faith-Based Initiativ...

Organotypic cultures of the mouse olfactory epithelium connected to the olfactory bulb were obtained with the roller tube technique from postnatal mice aged between 13 and 66 days. To test the functionality of the cultures, we measured electroolfactograms (EOGs) at different days in vitro (DIV), up to 7 DIV, and we compared them with EOGs from identical acute preparations (0 DIV). Average ampli...

key words: wall paintings, rocky hewn churches, Cappadocia (Turkey), pigments, Raman spectroscopy, Fourier transform infrared spectrometry This paper presents the results of the analysis on the rock hewn wall paintings of eleven churches in Cappadocia, Turkey. A large group of churches in the region of Nevşehir were analysed in order to increase the database of materials and techniques of medie...