We designed and tested a novel otolith viewing apparatus termed the otolith illumination device (OID) to ascertain if its use would result in a reduction of interpretation error as determined by increased precision of age estimates obtained from otoliths of walleye Sander vitreus and smallmouth bass Micropterus dolomieu. Clarity of annuli on otolith sections viewed with the OID was generally gr...

two species of pratylenchoides recovered from the grasslands in sabalan region and one species recovered from natural habitats of tehran are illustrated based on morphological, morphometric and molecular characters. the first species, p. crenicauda is characterized mainly by its lip region with three-four annuli, lateral field with four incisures areolated throughout the length and having rod s...

Cardinal polysplines of order p on annuli are functions in C2p−2 (Rn \ {0}) which are piecewise polyharmonic of order p such that ∆p−1S may have discontinuities on spheres in Rn, centered at the origin and having radii of the form ej , j ∈ Z. The main result is an interpolation theorem for cardinal polysplines where the data are given by sufficiently smooth functions on the spheres of radius ej...

Meloidogyne californiensis n. sp. is described and illustrated from bulrush Scirpus robustus in California. LM and SEM studies revealed that this species differs from other known species in the genus Meloidogyne especially by the prominent posterior cuticular protuberances in the female, the distinct shape of the perineal pattern which is marked by one prominent stria in the perineum, indistinc...

Electron microscope studies were made on various tunicate oocytes at different stages of growth and development. Both the inner and outer lamellae of the perforated nuclear envelope demonstrate considerable blebbing activity. The blebs of the inner lamella detach into the nucleoplasm where they undergo a special type of fusion process resulting in the formation of numerous, usually single, diff...

Populations of Bakernema inaequale, C. petasum, C. sphagni, C. mutabile, Ogma octangulare, Xenocriconemella macrodora and Hemicriconemoides chitwoodi were identified and re-described from different geographical areas in the continental United States and molecularly characterized. Two new species of spine nematodes Criconema arkaense n. sp. from Washington County and Lee County, Arkansas and Cri...

We study geometric properties of stabilisers in the handlebody group. find that meridians are undistorted, while primitive curves or annuli exponentially distorted for large enough genus.

Aalto University, P.O. Box 11000, FI-00076 Aalto www.aalto.fi Author Harri Hakula, Tri Quach, Antti Rasila Name of the publication Conjugate function method for numerical conformal mappings Publisher School of Science Unit Department of Mathematics and Systems Analysis Series Aalto University publication series SCIENCE + TECHNOLOGY 21/2011 Field of research Abstract We present a method for nume...