In this work, we are modelling the physic-chemical parameters of water using bioindicator data (diatom taxa abundance data). Chemical status of the water (or water quality class) is defined by the values of measured physic-chemical parameters. Traditional approach to model these data is to learn a separate model for each parameter and then derive a global overview with some kind of summarizatio...

Genomic retrotransposons are major genomic components in most eukaryotic organisms. Their abundance in the genome is generally correlated with genome size. These elements spread throughout the genome by a process termed retro-transposition consisting of transcription, reverse transcription and reinsertion of the copied element into a new genomic location. The target sites are relatively unspeci...

the evening of the 17th December, he took his food and made no complaint of any illness or pain. At about 5-15 a.m. next day, before unlock, he went to the urinal, passed urine walked back to his place in the dormitory and lay down. The convict night watchman accompanied him to the urinal and back. He says the man made no complaint of illness, walked quite steady and did not appear to be at all...

One of the most dramatic and widely appreciated natural history insights of recent decades has been the recording of the songs of the male humpback whale. Humans have valued the complexity and haunting tones produced by one of the largest marine mammals. The songs have been thought to play a key role in the mating process in their winter feeding grounds, which, for the Atlantic population, occu...