Here's a list of the most threatened animal species in the world. It approximates how many of each exist in the wild and also indicates which efforts, if any, are being used to save them.
Despite this fact, we cannot say that median game is more ‘fair’ for graphs of even order, since player I can choose at the beginning the vertex which will be the median of her profile and get with this a big advantage. 2. Results Since player I starts the game he has an obvious...
After the end of the 24 h labelling incubations, coral fragments were collected and immediately sectioned into slices using an electric rotating diamond saw blade. Separate slices from each fragment were used for (a) Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS), (b) NanoSIMS analyses, and (c) spectral...
The termination of the NADX at 3.3 Ma coincides with the beginning of the mid-Pliocene Warm Period (3.265–3.025 Ma46), whereas NADX initiation at 5.59 Ma is coeval with the acme of the Messinian Salinity Crisis (MSC, stage 2 or “Messinian gap”47) supposedly related to a high...
Since the beginning of industrialisation, average ocean pH had decreased by 0.1 units, representing an increase in hydrogen ions (protons) of around 25%. These changes have been matched by similar decreases in the concentration of carbonate ions (Fig. 4B). Subsequent work followed which showed ...
The subtropical forests were sub-divided into two types—subtropical dry deciduous forests, and subtropical evergreen chir-pine forests. At lower altitudes, the trees were dominated by subtropical dry deciduous scrubs. The major dominant tree species of subtropical dry deciduous vegetation were Mallotus...
At the beginning of the third century [after the Buddha’s nirvāṇa], there was a little dissension and it was divided into two schools: 1. the Sarvāstivāda, 2. the [original] Sthaviravāda, which changed its name into the Haimavata school. Subsepuently 320 years [after the ...
Here you can see the passing cloud display in action on this dwarf cuttlefish that I filmed at the Seattle Aquarium. It does it at the beginning and the end of the video. S. bandensisis not the only cuttlefish species to display these strange, psychedelic waves. Many other cuttlefish do ...
752 Net cash used in and provided by financing activities 49,322 Effect of exchange rate change on cash and cash equivalents (14,427) Cash and cash equivalents increased 13,013 Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of year 444,335 Decrease by change in accounting period of consolidated ...
Despite frequent outages of domestic producers, lower demand of finished goods ensured PTA's availability. Mono Ethylene Glycol (MEG) Unlike the costs of PX and PTA, MEG's prices remained steady during the beginning of the year. However, it reduced from USD 970 to USD 868 in June 2012, ...