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One of the most striking components of the modern assemblage of South American mammals is the semiaquatic capybara (Caviidae, Hydrochoerinae), the biggest rodent in the world. The large hydrochoerines are recorded from t...

Bringing together and successfully managing a highly interdisciplinary (ID) research team of socioeconomic, biophysical, and engineering scientists is highly challenging, particularly when that team includes 20 scientist...

Dendromonocotylerajidicola n. sp. is described from the dorsal surface of the yellownose skate Zearaja chilensis (Guichenot) (Rajiformes) caught on the Argentine shelf. Dendromonocotylerajidicola n. sp. can be distinguis...

It is difficult to map and quantify biodiversity at landscape level in areas with low data availability, despite demand from decision-makers. We propose a methodology to determine potential biodiversity pattern using hab...

Shroom is a family of related proteins linked to the actin cytoskeleton. xShroom1 is constitutively expressed in Xenopus laevis oocytes, and it is required for the expression of the epithelial sodium channel (ENaC). As t...

Octodontoidea is the most species-rich cladeamong hystricomorph rodents. Based on a combined parsimonyanalysis of morphological and molecular data of extinctand extant species, we analyze the history of SouthAmerican oct...

Stomatal pore regulation is a key process for carbon and water homeostasis of terrestrial plants. The pore size is modulated through changes in the guard cell volume, driven by variations in the osmotic potential of the ...

Deep inelastic scattering (DIS) of charged leptons off scalar mesons in the 1/N expansion is studied by using the gauge/gravity duality. We focus on the D3D7-brane system and investigate the corresponding structure funct...

Peatlands often encompass shallow pools, wherein dystrophic and colored acid waters host a remarkably diverse biota, with ciliates likely playing a key role in their short trophic webs. In the Sphagnum magellanicum-domin...

Thermal transformations of glasses with formulations derived from Bioglass 45S5 with Al2O3 (≤2.5 wt %) and K2O additions through K-feldspar were studied. Crystallization kinetics and transformations were followed-up by...

The retention, release, and detection of metallic complexes in polymeric hydrogels are of interest in drug delivery, analytical chemistry, and water remediation. The electrochemistry of the redox complexes inside the hyd...

The inflationary paradigm is the most successful model that explains the observed spectrum of primordial perturbations. However, the precise emergence of such inhomogeneities and the quantum-to-classical transition of th...

Interaction between epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) signaling with GM3 ganglioside expression has been previously described. However, little is known about EGFR and NeuGcGM3 co-expression in cancer patients and t...

The importance of chromosomal rearrangements for speciation can be inferred from studies of genetic exchange between hybridising chromosomal races within species. Reduced fertility or recombination suppression in karyoty...

Staphylococcus aureus is a pathogen that frequently causes mastitis in bovine herds worldwide. This pathogen produces several virulence factors, including cell-associated adhesins, toxic and cytolytic exoproteins, and ca...

In semi-arid environments there is often a lack of data on hydrological variables that limits the ability to understand key hydrological processes. In response to this need, geomorphometric analysis is a quantitative app...

In this study we combine information from landscape characteristics, demographic inference and species distribution modelling to identify environmental factors that shape the genetic distribution of the fossorial rodent ...

Macrophyte health status can influence the composition of their exudates causing different effects on zooplankton behavior and distribution in nature. We hypothesize that: (1) the release of phenolic compounds and chromo...

Background: Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is an aggressive disease with a survival rate of 4–6 months from diagnosis. PDAC is the fourth leading cause of cancer-related death in the Western world, with a mort...

Background: The use of microorganisms for the synthesis of nanoparticles (NPs) is relatively new in basic research and technology areas. Purpose: This work was conducted to optimized the biosynthesis of iron NPs intra- a...

Differential cross sections are presented for the prompt and non-prompt production of the hidden-charm states X(3872) and ψ(2S ), in the decay mode J/ψπ+π − , measured using 11.4 fb−1 of pp collisions at √ s = ...

Hunting and gathering remained the main mode of subsistence of humanity for hundreds of thousands of years, beginning some 1.8 million years ago, and until the Neolithic Revolution (some 10,000 years ago), when agricultu...

Numerous theoretical studies using various equation of state models have shown that quark matter may exist at the extreme densities in the cores of high-mass neutron stars. It has also been shown that a phase transition ...

In this paper we present a summary of numerical methods for solving free surface and two fluid flow problems. We will focus the attention on level set formulations extensively used in the context of the finite element me...