Recent petitions to list the fisher (Martes pennanti) under the Endangered Species Act have brought attention to fisher conservation. Although commercial trapping of fishers in California ended in 1946, summarizing the commercial harvest data can provide a historical perspective to fisher conservation and may indicate the prevalence of incidental fisher captures in traps set for other species. ...

[Purpose] It is important to facilitate intestinal motility in patients with reduced bowel movement through physiotherapy. The purpose of the present study was to compare the effects of passive exercise of the lower limbs and trunk (PELT) and combination therapies (COM) with those of conventional thermotherapy (TT) on bowel sounds (BSs) in healthy adult subjects. Since autonomic activity (AA) s...

Horses and other equids are unusual in producing protein-rich sweat for thermoregulation, a major component of which is latherin, a highly surface-active, non-glycosylated protein that is a member of the PLUNC (palate, lung and nasal epithelium clone) family. Latherin produces a significant reduction in water surface tension at low concentrations (≤1 mg/ml), and probably acts as a wetting agent...

ˆ Pruned dynamic programming is implemented in R package cghseg on CRAN and provides the exact solution for several model sizes [Rigaill, 2010]. In the code below, we fixed maxSegments=15, which means that the algorithm reports the optimal solution from 1 to 15 segments. ˆ Pruned Exact Linear Time (PELT) is implemented in R package changepoint on CRAN and provides the exact solution for one mod...

Previous data have demonstrated that thyroid gland thyroxine secretion rate in suckling rats is high and correlated with the hormonal needs of the young. Non-hormonal iodine metabolism is more elevated in the young than in the adult. The object of the present work was to measure rates of iodine transfer in 10-day old families of rats equilibrated with 125I or not. Reciprocal iodine exchange bet...

THE 11TH-CENTURY SKJOLDEHAMN GRAVE is a remarkable accidental find, discovered in bog coastal Arctic Norway 1936. The grave consisted of fully clothed skeleton wrapped wool blanket, lashed with leather straps and tin ring-ornamented woven bands. body was laid on reindeer pelt, which turn placed sticks birch. Finally, the covered birch bark, potentially turf. has intrigued scholars since its dis...

In Oregon, USA, bobcats on either side of the Cascade Mountain Range are recognized as distinct subspecies, with Lynx rufus fasciatus west and Lynx rufus pallescens east of the Cascades. These subspecies are currently managed for harvest as separate populations primarily because of substantial differences in regional pelt values. We used genetic data to determine whether bobcats in Oregon are s...