purpose: patterned breathing allows standardized serial measurements of heart rate variability and baroreflex indices. the slow breathing augments these parameters, and regular exercises, including yoga breathing practices with even respiratory rates have long-term beneficial effects in cardiovascular diseases. the role of temporization of breathing phases, i.e. the ratio of expiration to inspi...

The role of DNA barcoding as a tool to accelerate the inventory and analysis of diversity for hyperdiverse arthropods is tested using ants in Madagascar. We demonstrate how DNA barcoding helps address the failure of current inventory methods to rapidly respond to pressing biodiversity needs, specifically in the assessment of richness and turnover across landscapes with hyperdiverse taxa. In a c...

The distribution and abundance of Hochstetter's frog (Leiopelma hochstetteri Fitzinger) in part of the catchment of the Motu River was assessed during two short surveys in 1981 and 1983. Specimens were found in most tributaries examined and on the banks of the main river, above extreme flood level. Crude indices of abundance were obtained by relating the numbers found to the time spent searchin...

Paralicella tenuipes Chevreux, 1908 and caperesca Shulenberger Barnard, 1976 are known as widely distributed deep-sea scavenging amphipods. Some recent studies based on genetic data indicated the presence of high intraspecific variation P. suggesting it is a species complex. Based published molecular from Pacific Indian oceans new material obtained North South Atlantic, we integrated knowledge ...

In Harvey's Exercitatio Anatomica de Motu Cordis et Sanguinis in Animalibus of 1628, we see the mechanisms of the Circulation worked out more or less in full from the results of experimental demonstration, virtually complete but for the direct visual evidence of a link between the minute final terminations and initial branches of the arterial and venous systems, respectively. This would become ...

Although the Mediterranean Region is known as a hotspot for biodiversity and endemism its freshwater fauna still greatly unexplored, even emblematic taxa such decapods require in-depth integrative investigation. In our research we used approach composed of various geometric morphometric molecular methods to challenge taxonomic status two shrimps representing Palaemonidae: Palaemon antennarius m...

The science of human motion analysis is fascinating because of its highly interdisciplinary nature and wide range of applications. Histories of science usually begin with the ancient Greeks, who first left a record of human inquiry concerning the nature of the world in relationship to our powers of perception. Aristotle (384-322 B.C.) might be considered the first biomechanician. He wrote the b...