To maximize fitness, flying animals should maximize flight speed while minimizing energetic expenditure.Soaring speeds of large-bodied birds are Playmats determined by flight routes and tradeoffs between minimizing time and energetic costs.Large raptors migrating in eastern North America predominantly glide between thermals that provide lift or soa
Abstract Background PHF21A has been associated with intellectual disability and craniofacial anomalies based on its deletion in the Potocki-Shaffer syndrome region at 11p11.2 and its disruption in three patients with balanced translocations.In addition, three patients with de novo truncating mutations in PHF21A were reported recently.Here, we analy
Welcome to the second instalment of the Language Learning Spaces: Self-Access in Action column.While the first instalment examined the process of establishing facilities, this second instalment focuses on the role learners themselves play in the ecology of a self-access centre.When the self-access movement first started, many facilities were labell
Litsea cubeba (Lour.) Pers.(mountain pepper, Lauraceae) is an important woody essential oil crop that produces fragrant oils in its fruits, especially in its peels.Identification of genes involved in the regulation of fruits and peel architecture is of economic significance for L.cubeba industry.It has been well known that the MADS-box genes are es
A 75-year-old man was diagnosed with gastric cancer.Fifty years previously, he had undergone Pant gastroenterostomy with a Braun enteroenterostomy.At present, a distal gastrectomy and small intestinal partial resection were performed.Intraoperatively, the tumor was localized to the previous stomal site.HE staining showed that the tumor comprised tw