Many animals, and birds in particular, are thought to use directional information from the sun in the form of a time-compensated sun compass, with predictably deviated orientation under clock shift being regarded as the litmus test of this. We suggest that this paradigm obscures a number of other ways in which solar-derived information could be important in animal orientation. We distinguish be...

If you are reading this editorial in the week of publication, chances are that you do not work in one of the countries bordering the Mediterranean. If you are in Scandinavia, this is probably your first opportunity even to read my editorial from July. Most of Europe now takes a full four or five weeks of vacation, usually corresponding to the calendar month of July in the north or August in the...

The effect of cancer cachexia on the oxidative metabolism of lipids has been studied in mice transplanted either with the MAC16 adenocarcinoma, which induces profound loss of host body weight and depletion of lipid stores, or the MAC13 adenocarcinoma, which is of the same histological type, but which grows without an effect on host body weight or lipid stores. While oxidation of D-[U-'4C]glucos...

In this research, a rotating solar still that uses external bottom reflectors was experimentally investigated. The solar still and reflectors have the capability to shift their angle with respect to the south and the reflectors have the capability to shift their angle with respect to the horizon. The experiment has been performed in both fixed and rotating states. For the fixed state the solar ...