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OBJECTIVE S Various iterative reconstruction algorithms in nuclear medicine have been introduced in the last three decades. For each new imaging system, it is wise to select appropriate image reconstruction algorithms and evaluate their performance. In this study, three approaches of image reconstruction were developed for a novel desktop open-gantry SPECT system, PERSPECT, to assess their perf...

Adam D. Kay,* Sara E. Scott, John D. Schade and Sarah E. Hobbie Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota, 100 Ecology Building, 1987 Upper Buford Circle, St Paul, MN 55108, USA Department of Biology, College of St Benedict, St Joseph, MN, USA School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA Department of Integrative Biology, University of Californi...

E-mail: [email protected] Abstract Ecology is often said to lack general theories sufficiently predictive for applications. Here, we examine the concept of a periodic table of niches and feasibility of niche classification schemes from functional trait and performance data. Niche differences and their influence on ecological patterns and processes could be revealed effectively by first perf...

Evan P. Economo,* Andrew J. Kerkhoff and Brian J. Enquist Section of Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin, 1 University Station A6700, Austin, TX 78712, USA Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Biosciences West, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA *Correspondence: E-mail: [email protected] Abstract Population and community level processes must be at least par...

There once was a group of researchers at the State University of New York at Buffalo called the Discourse and Narrative Research Group. Contrary to what the prototypical story opening to this review suggests, this group still exists, proof of which is their publishing a book of more than 500 pages (!) on deixis in narrative, studied from the perspective of cognitive science. The book is a colle...