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Although invertebrate drift is an important ecological process in lotic ecosystems, very little is known about it in Kenyan rivers. The primary aim of this study was to investigate the effect of driftnet mesh size and exposure duration on drift density in 2017. Drift samples were dominated by Chironomidae, Baetidae, Simuliidae, Caenidae and Culicidae. The 100 µm mesh driftnet had the highest mean invertebrate density, followed by the 250 µm and 500 µm nets. Invertebrate drift densities decreased with increased exposure time. This study demonstrates that sampler mesh size and exposure time should be taken into account when characterising invertebrate drift in streams. Future studies should consider sampling different biotopes and during different seasons. 相似文献
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Sabaté M Ligthart J Deshpande N DeFeyter P Serruys P 《International journal of cardiovascular interventions》1998,1(2):109-112
We report a case of implantation of a new design of stent which allows creation of a double-hemispheric lumen for the treatment of a bifurcational stenosis. The unfavourable outcome following the implantation of this stent is described. 相似文献
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Mitochondrial control-region sequences in two shorebird species, the turnstone and the dunlin, and their utility in population genetic studies 总被引:12,自引:0,他引:12
We determined the mitochondrial control-region sequences of five turnstones
(Arenaria interpres) and three dunlins (Calidris alpina). Comparisons
revealed that the central part (part II) is conserved relative to much more
variable parts at the beginning (part I) and the end (part III). This
pattern of sequence conservation is also found in the control regions of
other vertebrates. The average sequence divergence between turnstone and
dunlin was 21.8% for part I, 7.5% for part II, and 29.5% for part III.
Within-species sequence divergence over the entire control region was much
lower, at 0.9% for turnstones and 2.0% for dunlins. In both shorebird
species, part III contains a repetitive sequence composed only of A and C
nucleotides, which has not been found in the control regions of other
birds. A survey of the part I sequences of 25 turnstones and 25 dunlins
sampled around the world revealed that these species have very different
population genetic structures. Dunlins are not only much more
differentiated in their sequences but also have a strongly subdivided
population genetic structure. Pleistocene vicariant events combined with
strong natal philopatry and high mutation rates of the sequences are likely
responsible for this population genetic subdivision. Conversely, part I
sequences of turnstones are weakly differentiated and are geographically
unstructured. We argue that this is not the result of global gene flow but
that, instead turnstones have recently expanded from a refugial population
that was bottlenecked.
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Johnston A Benton CP McOwan PW 《Proceedings. Biological sciences / The Royal Society》1999,266(1436):2441-2450
When a static textured background is covered and uncovered by a moving bar of the same mean luminance we can clearly see the motion of the bar. Texture-defined motion provides an example of a naturally occurring second-order motion. Second-order motion sequences defeat standard spatio-temporal energy models of motion perception. It has been proposed that second-order stimuli are analysed by separate systems, operating in parallel with luminance-defined motion processing, which incorporate identifiable pre-processing stages that make second-order patterns visible to standard techniques. However, the proposal of multiple paths to motion analysis remains controversial. Here we describe the behaviour of a model that recovers both luminance-defined and an important class of texture-defined motion. The model also accounts for the induced motion that is seen in some texture-defined motion sequences. We measured the perceived direction and speed of both the contrast envelope and induced motion in the case of a contrast modulation of static noise textures. Significantly, the model predicts the perceived speed of the induced motion seen at second-order texture boundaries. The induced motion investigated here appears distinct from classical induced effects resulting from motion contrast or the movement of a reference frame. 相似文献
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Sabaté M Giessen Wv Deshpande N Ligthart J Kay I Bruining N Serruys P 《International journal of cardiovascular interventions》1999,2(1):55-59
We report a patient who received a stent following intracoronary 3-irradiation. Despite a good initial angiographic result, the stent appeared to be not fully expanded on intravascular ultrasound imaging at 6-month follow-up. Four months later, sudden thrombotic occlusion occurred shortly after aspirin cessation. 相似文献
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Serruys P Grines C Stone G Garcia E Kiemeney F Morice M Sousa J Hamm C Costantini C Probst P Rutsch W Penn I Fernandez-Aviles F Vandormael M Bartorelli A Bilodeau L Eijgelshoven M 《International journal of cardiovascular interventions》1998,1(1):19-27
Preliminary experience with primary stenting in myocardial infarction has suggested a greater benefit in clinical outcome than has been obtained with direct balloon angioplasty. However, subacute thrombosis (SAT) remains a limitation for this new mode of therapy. In the BENESTENT II Pilot and main trials, the incidence of SAT with the heparin-coated Palmaz-Schatz stent was only 0.15%. Therefore, as a preamble to a large randomized trial, the feasibility and safety of the use of the Heparin-Coated Palmaz-Schatz trade mark Stent in Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI) was tested in 101 patients enrolled between April and September 1996 in 18 clinical centres. In 101 stent-eligible AMI patients, as dictated by protocol, a heparin-coated stent was implanted. The primary objectives were to determine the in-hospital incidence of major adverse cardiac events (MACE: death, MI, target lesion revascularization) and bleeding complications, while the secondary objectives were the procedural success rate and the MACE, the restenosis and reocclusion rates at 6.5 months. Stent implantation (n 3 129 stents) was successful in 97 patients of the 101 who were included in this trial. During their hospital stay, two patients died and no patient experienced re-infarction, ischaemia prompting re-PTCA or CABG. Four patients suffered a bleeding complication, three major and one minor, of whom three required surgical repair. At 210 days follow-up, 81% of the patients were event free. At 6.5 months restenosis was documented in 18% of the 88 patients who underwent follow-up angiography, including three total occlusions. The results, both with respect to QCA and the occurrence of MACE, compare favourably with studies using elective stenting in both stable and unstable angina patients. As a result of this pilot study, a large randomized trial comparing direct balloon angioplasty with direct stenting in 900 patients with AMI was initiated in December 1996. 相似文献
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The chaetognaths, or arrowworms, constitute a small and enigmatic phylum of
marine invertebrates whose phylogenetic affinities have long been
uncertain. A popular hypothesis is that the chaetognaths are the sister
group of the major deuterostome phyla: chordates, hemichordates, and
echinoderms. Here we attempt to determine the affinities of the
chaetognaths by using molecular sequence data. We describe the isolation
and nucleotide sequence determination of 18S ribosomal DNA from one species
of chaetognath and one acanthocephalan. Extensive phylogenetic analyses
employing a suite of phylogenetic reconstruction methods (maximum
parsimony, maximum likelihood, evolutionary parsimony, and two distance
methods) suggest that the hypothesized relationship between chaetognaths
and the deuterostomes is incorrect. In contrast, we propose that the
lineage leading to the chaetognaths arose prior to the advent of the
coelomate metazoa.
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A computational model of the analysis of some first-order and second-order motion patterns by simple and complex cells. 总被引:3,自引:0,他引:3
A Johnston P W McOwan H Buxton 《Proceedings. Biological sciences / The Royal Society》1992,250(1329):297-306
Although spatio-temporal gradient schemes are widely used in the computation of image motion, algorithms are ill conditioned for particular classes of input. This paper addresses this problem. Motion is computed as the space-time direction in which the difference in image illuminance from the local mean is conserved. This method can reliably detect motion in first-order and some second-order motion stimuli. Components of the model can be identified with directionally asymmetric and directionally selective simple cells. A stage in which we compute spatial and temporal derivatives of the difference between image illuminance and the local mean illuminance using a truncated Taylor series gives rise to a phase-invariant output reminiscent of the response of complex cells. 相似文献