age at first breeding on Ural owl lifetime reproductive success and fitness under cyclic food conditions. – Journal of Animal Ecology 67: 359–369. survival in a variable environment: Ural owls and the three-year vole cycle. – Auk in press. effort and reproductive values in periodic environments. – seasonal recruitment and the evolution of the seasonal decline in Ural owl clutch size. – Manuscri...

Competitive intraguild interactions can modify the spatial and temporal territory use of predators, e.g., this phenomenon was reported among species of owls (Strigidae). This study made use of owl guild present in fragmented forests in southern Poland to investigate how the occurrence of the dominant Ural owl affects the territory distribution of subordinate (in descending order): tawny owl, bo...

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Tuberculosis (TB) persists as a public health problem in Iran. Characterization of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates circulating in this area will contribute to understand and control the spread of the strains. The aims of this study were to understand the genetic diversity and drug susceptibility of M. tuberculosis isolates circulating in Iran and to analyze the relationship between genotype...

Z. V. Pchelkina,1,* I. A. Nekrasov,2 Th. Pruschke,3 A. Sekiyama,4 S. Suga,4 V. I. Anisimov,1 and D. Vollhardt5 1Institute of Metal Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences-Ural Division, 620041 Yekaterinburg GSP-170, Russia 2Institute of Electrophysics, Russian Academy of Sciences-Ural Division, 620016 Yekaterinburg, Russia 3Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Göttingen, Friedrich-Hund...

M. I. Oshtrakh, O. B. Milder', V. A. Semionkin', A. L. Berkovsky, M. A. Azhigirova, E. P. Vyazova a Division of Applied Biophysics, Faculty of Physical Techniques and Devices for Quality Control, Ural State Technical University, Ekaterinburg, 620002, Russian Federation b Faculty of Experimental Physics, Ural State Technical University, Ekaterinburg, 620002, Russian Federation c Hematological Sc...

M. I. Oshtrakh, V. A. Semionkin', O. B. Milder', A. B. Livshits, and A. A. Kozlov a Division of Applied Biophysics, Faculty of Physical Techniques and Devices for Quality Control, Ural State Technical University, Ekaterinburg, 620002, Russian Federation b Faculty of Experimental Physics, Ural State Technical University, Ekaterinburg, 620002, Russian Federation c Hematological Scientific Center ...