To evaluate the current status of farm animal behavioral research in North America, we searched and analyzed the scientific literature, consulted the national Agricultural Library and the Current Research Information System of the USDA and sought advice from several authorities. We than sent letters to 78 North American behavioral researchers, inviting them to supply information about their cur...

The intertidal biota of the North Atlantic is characterized by two disjunct communities (North American and European) exposed to different climatic regimes during the Pleistocene and in the Holocene. We collect multilocus DNA sequence data from the nearshore fish Pholis gunnellus to help uncover processes determining biogeographical persistence during periodic coastal glaciations. Coalescent-ba...

This paper focuses on a number of American stories which helped educate people and bring about legal or social change. There are many stories which caused major or minor legal and political change, particularly, in the United States. Some of them are written by Herman Melville, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Upton Sinclair and Sidney Kingsley. After the publication of White Jacket by Melville the novel...

This paper provides a critical survey of the now burgeoning literature on the spatial application of endogenous growth theory. Attention is paid both to the (mainly North American) "new economics of urban and regional growth" literature, and to European literature that has focused on questions of convergence and the estimation of the Verdoorn law. The paper then identifies potentially fruitful ...

OBJECTIVES In this study the author aimed to provide information for researchers to help them with the selection of suitable databases for finding medical ethics literature. The quantity of medical ethical literature that is indexed in different existing electronic bibliographies was ascertained. METHOD Using the international journal index Ulrich's Periodicals Directory, journals on medical ...

sooty molds are a group of fungi with dark-coloured hyphae, which grow saprophytically on various living plant organs and sometimes on non-living substrates and produce brown to black superficial colonies, black pellicles or pseudoparenchymatous crust. in north of iran including guilan and mazandaran provinces, sooty molds are common on living leaves of a great variety of plants especially citr...

Breast metastasis of ovarian carcinoma is rare. To date, only 39 cases have been reported in the English-language  literature  so  far.  We  are  herewith  reporting  a  primary  ovarian  papillary  serous  cyst adenocarcinoma metastasing to breast and epsilateral supraclavicular node in a 58 year old female as the first case in our centre, located at North-East India.  The purpose of reporting...