Yellow wrasses (Halichoeres chrysus) show clear daily activity patterns. The fish hide in the substrate at (subjective) night, during the distinct rest phase. Initial entrainment in a 12h:12h light-dark (12:12 LD) cycle (mean period 24.02h, SD 0.27h, n = 16) was followed by a free run (mean period 24.42h, SD 1.33h) after transition into constant dim light conditions. Light pulses of a comparabl...

Vertebral development is a dynamic and complicated process, and defects can be caused by a variety of influences. Spinal curvature with no known cause (idiopathic scoliosis) affects 2-3% of the human population. In order to understand the etiology and pathogenesis of complex human skeletal defects such as idiopathic scoliosis, multiple models must be used to study all of the factors affecting v...

When sharks and dogfish are at rest on the sea bottom, gill ventilation is produced by the action of the branchial musculature and elastic recoil of the visceral skeleton (Hughes & Ballintijn, 1965). Water flows across the gills as a result of an increase in pressure in front of the gills and of suction behind them. During the swimming of some related forms such as the leopard shark, Triakis se...

A survey of zoological literature affirmed the wide occurrence of Fibonacci numbers in the organization of acellular and prokaryotic life forms as well as in some eukaryotic protistans and in the embryonic development and adult forms of many living and fossil remains of metazoan animals. A detailed comparative analysis of the axial skeleton of a fossil fish and humans revealed a new rule of the...

osteological features are important to study the taxonomy and phylogenetic relationship of fishes. since there is no information is available about osteological features of squalius orientalis , therefore this study was aimed to provide a detailed description of the osteological features of this species from the urmia lake basin of iran and comparing it with population of s. orientalis from the...

nitrogen containing bisphosphonate (n-bp) therapy is used extensively to treat osteoporosis and osteolytic bone lesions. recently, a special form of osteonecrosis limited to the maxillofacial skeleton has been discovered especially within those patients who are receiving either long-term n-bp therapy alone and/or associated with invasive dental procedure. bisphosphonates accumulate almost exclu...

The trunk of fish is covered by a large variety of morphologically and structurally diverse skeletal elements, such as scales, scutes and bony plates [1]. These elements are formed from intramembraneous ossifications and are part of the integumentary skeleton [2]. Histological and developmental similarities with neural crest-derived teeth in fossil and extant vertebrates, have led to the widely...

Algorithmic skeleton has received attention as an efficient method of parallel programming in recent years. Using the method, the programmer can implement parallel programs easily. In this study, a set of efficient algorithmic skeletons is introduced for use in implementing parallel genetic algorithm (PGA).A performance modelis derived for each skeleton that makes the comparison of skeletons po...

the alternative double bonds and conjugation in the polyene compounds are one of the main properties in these compounds. each carbon-carbon bonds in a polyene compound along the chain has appreciable double-bond character. the p-electrons are therefore not localized but are relatively free to move throughout the entire carbon skeleton as an one-dimensional box. the skeleton be considered as a r...