Abstract Background The transition to a parasitic lifestyle entails comprehensive changes to the selective regime.In parasites, genes encoding for traits that facilitate host detection, exploitation and transmission should be under selection.Slavemaking ants are social parasites that exploit the altruistic behaviour of Footstools their hosts by ste
The relative ability of the NOEC (no-observed-effect concentration) and ECx (the effect concentration corresponding to x-percent response) to determine benchmark toxicant concentrations, which are expected to ensure environmental safety, when there are large uncertainties 1200D Nylon Horse Rug Combo (200g fill) in data was investigated with Monte C
This study aims at enhancing platform design and passive control technology, reducing maintenance costs, and increasing stability and efficiency.The selected site for this study is offshore water in Hsinchu, Taiwan.Owing to shallow water conditions at the selected site, an octagonal barge-type platform was chosen for investigation of its suitabilit
Abstract Background User-scripts are programs stored in Web browsers that can manipulate the content of websites prior to display in the browser.They provide a novel mechanism by which users can conveniently gain increased control over the content and the display of the information presented to them on the Web.As the Web is the primary medium by wh