Ameisen: Die heimliche Weltmacht (Ants: Nature's Secret Power) is a nature documentary about ants. Wolfgang Thaler wrote, filmed, and directed the film, which focuses on the work of ant researcher Bert Hölldobler. The 2004 film was produced by Adi Mayer Film for Österreichischer Rundfunk (Austrian Broadcasting), a public service broadcaster headquartered in Vienna, Austria. Ants: Nature's Secre...

We describe the synthesis and fluorescence properties of a Fura-2FF-based fluorescent Ca(2+) indicator that can be covalently linked to SNAP-tag fusion proteins and retains its Ca(2+) sensing ability after coupling to protein.

In the educational context it is examined the teacher-stress association. The teacher’s stress is related with variables of academic environment, of out of the school and of the teacher. The impact of that association can be see in the teacher’s health, in his achievement and in the quality of the teaching-learning process. With the objective to present one view of how issue is being considered...

We demonstrate that an oft-used indirect attitude assessment technique—the attitude activation paradigm—accurately assesses attitudes only when participants attend to the prime stimuli during the attitude activation task. Attitude activation attitudes toward obviously valenced words (e.g., torture, liberty) were more sensitive to attitude valence and extremity when participants were required to...

The Economic Sentiment Indicator (ESI), published by the European Commission on a monthly basis, is a powerful tool for tracking year on year GDP growth. However, its performance is weaker when GDP growth is expressed in quarter on quarter changes. This paper investigates whether cross-sector survey data gathered in the framework of the harmonised EU Business and Consumer Survey (EU BCS) can be...

Filopodia have been regarded as the sensory extensions of neuronal growth cones. As such, filopodia assay distant environments and are important for directing growth cones toward their targets. Since the territory encountered by a growth cone depends on the area spanned by the filopodia, changes in filopodial length or number result in the "exploration" of different-sized regions of the environ...

Despite the fact that sustainability of bushmeat hunting in tropical areas is of major concern for conservation and development practitioners, we still know very little about how to measure sustainability and how to put in place sustainable bushmeat hunting systems. We review the current limits of traditional methods used to investigate sustainability of bushmeat hunting, discuss the need to in...

Abstract We evaluated the diagnostic accuracy of insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) for screening hormone deficiency (GHD) to determine usefulness IGF-1 as a test. Among 298 consecutive children who had short stature or decreased height velocity, we measured levels and performed (GH) secretion test using clonidine, arginine, and, in cases with different results two tests, L-dopa. Patients con...