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Leaping and Accelerometry: A Theoretical Approach
Accelerometry has always been a popular method of monitoring locomotor activity but its use is becoming more widespread due to the easy availability of low cost, low power sensors. However one of t…
Received 13 November 2008 15:09 UTC; Posted 14 November 2008
Posted to: Ecology
Microbial ecosystem constructed in water for successful organic hydroponics
Conventional hydroponics systems generally use only chemical fertilisers, not organic ones, since there are no microbial ecosystems present in such systems to mineralise organic compounds to inorga…
Received 10 November 2008 03:25 UTC; Posted 11 November 2008
Posted to: Ecology, Microbiology, Earth & Environment, Plant Biology
Biospheric context of Siberian development
Productivity of ecosystems surrounding a city is important for supporting its activities in a sustainable way. The total terrestrial net primary production (NPP) shows biosphere potential to supply…
Received 05 November 2008 10:10 UTC; Posted 05 November 2008
Posted to: Ecology, Earth & Environment
Resolving Stressful Relationships in Prehistory: Macroscopic and Histological Indicators of Growth Disruption in Subadult Long Bones
This poster provides a set of quadratic formulas for predicting body mass using the femoral midshaft in subadult skeletons. This age-structured method has lower %SEE and is more efficient than esti…
Received 04 November 2008 19:49 UTC; Posted 07 November 2008
Posted to: Ecology
Dynamic Modeling of Vaccinating Behavior as a Function of Individual Beliefs
Individual perception of vaccine safety is an important factor in determining a person’s adherence to a vaccination program and its consequences for disease control. This perception, or belief, abo…
Received 28 October 2008 17:00 UTC; Posted 28 October 2008
Posted to: Ecology
Memristive model of amoeba’s learning
Recently, behavioural intelligence of the plasmodia of the true slime mold has been demonstrated. It was shown that a large amoeba-like cell Physarum polycephalum subject to a pattern of periodic e…
Received 22 October 2008 23:13 UTC; Posted 24 October 2008
Posted to: Ecology, Molecular Cell Biology, Bioinformatics
Facial Expression Processing Varies with Political Affiliation
Conservative political beliefs have been linked to heightened stress reactivity and protective cognitive biases. Using a facial discrimination task designed to measure perceptions of threat (vs. no…
Received 19 October 2008 01:07 UTC; Posted 21 October 2008
Posted to: Ecology, Neuroscience
Where did Words Come from? A Linking Theory of Sound Symbolism and Natural Language Evolution
Where did words come from? The traditional view is that the relation between the sound of a word and its meaning is arbitrary. An alternative hypothesis, known as sound symbolism, holds that form-m…
Received 06 October 2008 00:21 UTC; Posted 06 October 2008
Posted to: Developmental Biology, Ecology, Neuroscience
Nitrogen Fixation and Translocation in Sugarcane
World sugarcane production is increasing rapidly as a biofuel. In some areas in Brazil, sugarcane has been grown continually over very long periods without N fertiliser inputs. Therefore, the occur…
Received 03 October 2008 05:20 UTC; Posted 07 October 2008
Posted to: Ecology, Earth & Environment, Plant Biology
China is on the track tackling Enteromorpha spp forming green tide
Green tide management is supposed to be a long term fight rather than an episode during the 29th Olympic Games for China, since it has been gaining in scale and frequency during the past 3 decades …
Received 02 October 2008 09:21 UTC; Posted 03 October 2008
Posted to: Ecology, Earth & Environment
