Burgin S. Confirmation of an established population of exotic turtles in urban Sydney. Aust J Zool , 2006 , 33: 379 -384 Google Scholar [5] Cadi A, Joly P. Competition for basking places between the endangered European pond turtle (Emys orbicularis galloitalica) and the introduced red-...
In both cases the females were found emerging from the ground with the clutch partly laid. One nest was 12–16 cm beneath the soil surface, under the roots of a small tree (Mela- leuca sp.). The other nest was deeper (16–20 cm), 1 m from the water's edge and >5 m away ...
found that the increased risk of fatal and non-fatal IHD associated with a 5 kg m À 2 increase in BMI was 29% (22–35%), after adjusting for age, sex, physical activity and smoking.9 Analyses undertaken by the Prospective Studies Collaboration,14 with nearly 900 000 participants in ...
We found that the large extinct marsupial predator Thylacoleo was the only taxon apparently represented by all three records, suggesting that the behavioral characteristics of large carnivores may increase the likelihood of their presence being detected within a fossil fauna. In contrast, Diprotodon (...
There is a need for a practical, inexpensive method to assess body composition in obese adolescents. This study aimed to 1) compare body composition parameters estimated by a stand-on, multi-frequency bioelectrical impendence (BIA) device, using a) the manufacturers’ equations, and b) published...
randomization have found that adiposity mediates most of the association between age at menarche and metabolic cardiovascular risk factors50, and that younger age at menarche has a causal effect of increasing adult BMI, even after excluding variants with evidence of horizontal BMI pleiotropy in ...
We found a heritability of 39% for 180-day-old BW, while also the rumen microbiota likely played a significant role, explaining that 20% of the phenotypic variation. Microbiota-wide association studies (MWAS) and GWAS identified four marker genera (Bonferroni corrected P < 0.05) and five ...
Back in the 1950s, psychologist Solomon Asch found that if a group of participants – all but one of whom were plants in the experiment – decided that one straight line was longer than another, when it clearly was not, around 75% of the time the non-plant would defy reason and side ...
Perhaps the violin makers of Cremons knew something special about wood for violins. But the kind of wood may not be so important. It may be more important to cut the wood in a special way. Wood for a violin must be cut into the right size and shape. The smallest difference will chang...
Body size misperception is a phenomenon wherein people believe themselves or others to be larger or smaller than they actually are1–3. In research conducted in a broad range of populations, and in both adolescents and adults, as many as half of participants have been found to misperceive ...