The Mesozoic, mid-Cretaceous (Barremian to Cenomanian) deposits of southern Croatia comprise a succession of shallow tropical-water, inner-platform deposits that formed on a Bahama-type isolated Adriatic carbonate platform in the Dinarides. This succession is dominated by benthic foraminifers and dasycladalean algae, and is exposed in a nearly continuous outcrop section on the islands and along...

Atmospheric hyperoxia, with pO(2) in excess of 30%, has long been hypothesized to account for late Paleozoic (360-250 million years ago) gigantism in numerous higher taxa. However, this hypothesis has not been evaluated statistically because comprehensive size data have not been compiled previously at sufficient temporal resolution to permit quantitative analysis. In this study, we test the hy...

About 5% of Clostridium perfringens type A isolates carry the cpe gene encoding the C. perfringens enterotoxin. Those cpe-positive type A isolates are important causes of food-poisoning and non-food-borne cases of diarrheas in humans, as well as certain veterinary cases of diarrhea. Previous studies have determined that the enterotoxigenic type A isolates causing both non-food-borne human gastr...

introduction : streptococcus pneumoniae cause morbidity and mortality in infants and younger children. because of high prevalence of penicillin resistance, rapid and reliable diagnostic techniques for penicillin non-susceptible s. pneumoniae (pnssp) are important for prevention and treatment. we investigated the association of the restriction length polymorphism (rflp) patterns for pbp2b to dis...

Synthetic chemicals, such as fertilizers and pesticides, are abundantly used in agriculture to enhance soil fertility prevent the occurrence of diseases, respectively. Many studies have reported a negative influence these chemicals on environment. Natural sources from earthworms their products, result vermicomposting, may be considered better alternatives. The aim this review was reveal source ...

This work describes the distribution and diversity of fungal endophytes associated with leaves of Colobanthus quitensis, a dicotyledonous plant that lives in Antarctica. A total of 188 fungal isolates were obtained from six different sites located across a 25.5-km transect through Admiralty Bay, at King George Island. The ITS1-5.8S-ITS2 nuclear ribosomal gene was sequenced and the endophytic fu...

Unlike synchronous processing, low–power asynchronous processing is more efficient in biomedical and sensing networks applications as it it is free from aliasing constraints and quantization error in the amplitude, it allows continuous–time processing and more importantly data is only acquired in significant parts of the signal. In this paper, we consider signal decomposers based on the asynchr...

Surface fuel loads are a key driver of forest fires and the target hazard reduction burns to reduce fire risk. However, role biota in decomposition, or feedbacks between decomposer communities rarely considered. We review evidence that organisms play an important surface regulation how this is affected by fire. First, we outline contribution breakdown fuels. Next, consider three distinct phases...