This study investigated the effect of the installation of flood dams on the morphological variation of Alburnoides samiii Mousavi-Sabet, Vatandoust & Doadrio, 2015, in Toolkhone River, origin from Somam Mountain, the South Caspian Sea basin, north of Iran. Multivariate analysis (MANOVA) was employed for morphometric characteristics of the fish inhabit upstream and downstream of the dams. Signif...

Article history: Received 27 May 2008 Accepted 16 February 2009 Available online 26 February 2009

During the last decades, aquaculture has been the world’s fastest growing food production technology. This is primarily due to the fact that control with the production process has allowed innovations thorough the supply chain, leading to increased demand and thereby increased production. We investigate this process for three leading species; salmon, sea bass and shrimp. The process has been ve...

While current tools for the automatic analysis and modeling of intonation are satisfactory for laboratory or isolated sentences, they appear insufficient for the study of longer stretches of authentic speech, which are in general marked by systematic changes of register. This study shows that implementing automatically detected register changes significantly improves the accuracy of the automat...

for current assumptions about scientific knowledge and environmental policy raised by the preventive approach and the associated Precautionary Principle. He offers a critical examination of approaches to characterizing different kinds of uncertainty in policy knowledge, especially in relation to decision making upstream from environmental effects. Via the key dimension of unrecognized indetermi...

Over the last several years the search for functional elements in human and other genomes by exploiting motif over-representation became increasingly popular. However, about half of the human genome consists of known repeated elements, and that is also the case with most higher eukaryotes. In this study we have shown that in addition to these known repeats, human genomic sequence features many ...

E studying innovation and technological change have made significant progress toward understanding firms’ profit incentives as drivers of innovation. However, innovative performance in firms should also depend heavily on the pecuniary and nonpecuniary motives of the employees actually working in research and development. Using data on more than 1,700 Ph.D. scientists and engineers, we examine t...