Stable isotope and gut content analyses were completed on multiple age classes of Detroit River rock bass (Ambloplites rupestris) and bluegill sunfish (Lepomis macrochirus) to determine the importance of resource partitioning in littoral centrarchids. d15N signatures ranged from 10.9‰ to 12.8‰ in young of the year (YOY) to 7-yrold rock bass and from 10.3‰ to 12.1‰ for YOY to 4-yr-old bluegills....

We evaluated the ability of Ikonos imagery from August and October 2000 to classify prairie pothole community types of the Missouri Coteau of North Dakota. Classification tree analyses were conducted to create land-cover maps at three levels of detail. The analyses successfully distinguished broad cover types (potholes including emergent vegetation versus upland vegetation) at 92 percent overal...

Based on the hypothesis that decreased stimulus energy might reduce ECT-induced amnesia, Liberson (1948) and others advocated seizure induction with low-energy pulse wave forms instead of the conventional sinusoidal wave form. Recent studies have reported similar antidepressive efficacy between brief-pulse and sinusoidal ECT (Carney and Sheffield, 1974; Weaver et al., I~77; Welch et al., 1982)....

Nowadays electroporation is well established as a method for increasing the permeability of biological membranes aiming to include some kind of molecule inside cells (anticancer drugs, for example) or to extract molecules from cells (enzymes, DNA, etc.). The permeabilized cells show a distribution of hydrophilic pores with diameters of several nanometers in the regions where the induced transme...

investigating nozzle’s orifice flow is challenging both experimentally and theoretically. this paper focuses on simulating flow inside diesel injector nozzle via ansys fluent v15. validation is performed with experimental results from winkhofler et al (2001). several important parameters such as mass flow rate, velocity profiles and pressure profiles are used for this validation. results includ...

Zika virus (ZIKV) is a mosquito-borne flavivirus and although it has been known for decades it largely remained obscured and cases were reported only sporadically (Weaver et al., 2016). In 2007, the situation changed dramatically upon the first large outbreak of ZIKV in the state of Yap, Federated States of Micronesia (Lanciotti et al., 2008). Subsequently, ZIKV spread to South America in 2015 ...

Investigating nozzle’s orifice flow is challenging both experimentally and theoretically. This paper focuses on simulating flow inside diesel injector nozzle via Ansys fluent v15. Validation is performed with experimental results from Winkhofler et al (2001). Several important parameters such as mass flow rate, velocity profiles and pressure profiles are used for this validation. Results includ...

Functional neurosurgery is the only surgical alternative treatment for patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD) (Agid, 1999; Benzzouz & Hallett, 2000; Beric et al., 2001; DeLong & Wichmann, 2001; Dowsey-Limousin et al., 2001; Hariz & Fodstad, 2002; Kopper et al., 2003; Krause et al., 2001; Vesper et al., 2002). Dopamine deficiency in Parkinson’s disease leads to increased neuronal activity. Regul...