ABSTRACT We investigated regional diatom species distribution, local diversity, and spatial variation in body size from 105 boreal stream sites in Finland. Stream diatom body size distributions ranged from a slightly right-skewed pattern at the largest study extent, com...

The interface between assisted reproductive technologies (ART) and genetics comprises several sensitive and important issues that affect infertile couples, families with severe genetic diseases, potential children, professionals in ART and genetics, health care, researc...

Increased urinary excretion of indican was detected in earlier studies of patients with the form of progressive myoclonus epilepsy (PME) where no Lafora bodies are present in the brain and other tissues. Since then, all PME patients have been given sodium valproate and/...

In this paper we introduce a notion of spectral approximation for directed graphs. While there are many potential ways one might define approximation for directed graphs, most of them are too strong to allow sparse approximations in general. In contrast, we prove that f...

Biochemical and cellular characteristics of pleural fluid from two patients with pleuropulmonary tularemia and 39 patients with tuberculous pleurisy were compared. High pleural fluid concentrations of adenosine deaminase, lysozyme, and β2-microglobulin occurred in both ...

Abstract We have considered a number of different GEM foil geometries in order to assess how the hole shape affects the performance of a GEM structure operated with the Ar–70%/CO 2 –30% gas mixture. The contributions of primary electron collection efficiency, hole multi...

Fatigue performance of Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) primary circuit components and laboratory specimens depends on temperature. Temperature plays a particular role in environmental fatigue, but affects also generic fatigue evaluations. Historically, fatigue data was genera...

Lifetimes of excited states in $^{182}\mathrm{Hg}$ were extracted from recoil-gated $\ensuremath{\gamma}$-ray spectra and recoil-gated $\ensuremath{\gamma}\ensuremath{\gamma}$-coincidence matrices using the recoil distance Doppler-shift method. States were populated usi...

The impressive progress in fabricating and controlling superconducting devices for quantum information processing has reached a level where reliable theoretical predictions need to account for quantum correlations that are not captured by the conventional modeling of co...

This article concerns the ontological status of the performing body. What if it were not considered derivative in relation to any kind of discursive construction or any kind of pre-existent materiality or force? What if it were taken as a starting point of our attempts ...