The spotted scat (Scatophagus argus) is the most widely commercially cultured fish in eastern and southern Asia that possess potential economic value. However, up to date, there are no studies reported on selection of suitable reference genes this fish, which crucial for guaranteeing accurate reliable results RT-qPCR analyses. This study aimed at screening stable ovary pituitary different ovari...

Exact solutions to the Dirac-Born-Infeld equation, which describes scat-terings of localized wave packets in the presence of constant background fields, are derived in this paper.

In the aquaculture industry, fish oil is widely used as a nutritional supplement to promote gonadal maturation of broodstocks, while mechanism on ovary development remain unclear. Herein, female adult spotted scat ( Scatophagus argus ) with most ovaries at phase II were fed diets containing 8% soybean (SO) or (FO) for 60 days. The final average body weight was similar between FO and SO groups. ...

When we interpret modal ♦ as the limit point operator of a topological space, the Gödel-Löb modal system GL defines the class Scat of scattered spaces. We give a partition of Scat into α-slices Sα , where α ranges over all ordinals. This provides topological completeness and definability results for extensions of GL. In particular, we axiomatize the modal logic of each ordinal α, thus obtaining...

The status of many carnivore species is a growing concern for wildlife agencies, conservation organizations, and the general public. Historically, kit foxes (Vulpes macrotis) were classified as abundant and distributed in the desert and semi-arid regions of southwestern North America, but is now considered rare throughout its range. Survey methods have been evaluated for kit foxes, but often in...

Surveys using conservation detection dogs have grown increasingly popular as an efficient means to gather monitoring data, particularly for elusive and low-density species such as carnivores. Working with dogs can greatly increase the area surveyed for wildlife and the detection rate of survey targets. Due to the confounding effects of scent dispersion and dog movement, however, it can be diffi...

Cononsolvency-induced micellization kinetics of a pyrene end-labeled diblock copolymer of N-isopropylacrylamide and oligo(ethylene glycol) methyl ether methacrylate, Py-PNIPAM-b-POEGMA, was investigated in detail via a combination of stopped-flow light-scattering and fluorescence techniques. Upon a stopped-flow jump from pure methanol to proper methanol/water mixtures, scattered light intensity...

ABSTRACT The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW), Office Spill Prevention Response (OSPR) has employed Geographic Information System (GIS) technology for oil spill planning response since the early 1990's, adding remote sensing tools to mix by turn Century. Discussed herein are OSPR's current smartphone tablet-based field data collection applications. We use an off-the-shelf tool ...

Head-down bed rest (HDBR) increases plasma levels of Atrial Natriuretic Peptide (ANP) and decreases norepinephrine levels. We have previously demonstrated that ANP promotes lipid mobilization and utilization, an effect independent of sympathetic nervous system activation, when infused into lean healthy men at pharmacological doses. The purpose of the current study was to demonstrate that a phys...