Spontaneous phytoplankton blooms cause extensive damage to aquatic ecosystems all over the world. Red Tide, a type of bloom, causes extensive damage in the Gulf of Mexico every year. Red tide is caused by Karenia brevis, ...

Multimodal multiplex spectroscopy (MMS) has been demonstrated to increase the optical throughput of a spectrometer as opposed to that of conventional optical spectrometers and has been implemented using three-dimensional ...

Hybridization is believed to be an important mechanism for genetic diversity and speciation in many groups of organisms. One of the most important evolutionary signatures of hybridization is low phylogenetic resolution in ...

Conversations involve the exchanging of feedback, both verbal and nonverbal, and the importance of these cues is well understood. The cognitive processes used in integrating the feedback have yet to examined, especially ...

Males of the marine copepod species Temora longicornis have been seen to track the chemical trails of females in order to locate the female for mating. The males of one freshwater copepod, Hesperodiaptomus shoshone, have ...

Many automobile accidents occur at intersections, which are often controlled by stop signs and traffic lights. Understanding how a driver interprets, anticipates, and responds to stop signs and traffic lights could help ...

Vibrio parahaemolyticus is an emerging enteric pathogen. The O3:K6 serotype has become pandemic, and the genome has been sequenced for the RIMD2210633 strain of this serotype (20). The thermostabile direct hemolysin (tdh), ...

A dynamic model for odontogenesis is lacking. Cichlids serve as superior organisms for studies in tooth development because of diversity in tooth shape, size, number, number of rows, all of which undergo continuous ...

Historically, fan culture has played an enormous role in the creation and development of science fiction and fantasy, and the genres have left a significant impact on the lives of their fans. I have determined that fandom ...

A feeling-of-knowing (FOK) is a sense of knowing that an item would be recognizable if seen again later, despite one’s current inability to recall that item from memory. An FOK judgment occurs after a memory search and is ...