Biological Sciences
epub |eng | 2017-01-26 | Author:Wolf D. Storl [Storl, Wolf D.]

Comfrey Lungwort (Pulmonaria officinalis): The leaves of this white-flecked, bristly plant in the borage family are said to resemble spots on sick lungs. Why should the lungwort—as it was named ...
( Category: Shamanism March 26,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-03-22 | Author:Luke Hunter

The Eurasian Lynx is the only lynx species that specialises on ungulate prey across most of its range. This adult female in the Jura Mountains, Switzerland has killed a male ...
( Category: Cats, Lions & Tigers March 23,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-03-21 | Author:Jon Kramer

Ceratosaurus (Seh-rat-oh-soar-us) Fun Facts: With a row of hard, bony protrusions sticking out of its back, Ceratosaurus is one of the only theropods known to have armor. Dinosaur Group: Ceratosaur ...
( Category: Fossils March 22,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-03-21 | Author:Ian Miller

A stoker heats blade blanks in the blank forge using tongs. DRAWING OUT THE BLADE These slabs of welded steel with forged tangs were then heated in the drawing forge ...
( Category: Hand Tools March 22,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-03-21 | Author:David Mohrman & Lois Jane Heller

OTHER NEURAL INFLUENCES Blood vessels, as a general rule, do not receive innervation from the parasympathetic division of the autonomic nervous system. However, parasympathetic vasodilator nerves, which release acetylcholine, are ...
( Category: Cardiology March 22,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-12-21 | Author:Blackiston, Howland [Blackiston, Howland]

Get the bees off the branch. One approach is to give the branch holding the bees a sudden, authoritative jolt. Doing so will dislodge the swarm, and the bees will ...
( Category: Insects & Spiders March 22,2017 )
epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Maurice Maeterlinck [Maeterlinck, Maurice]

62 And whom does the queen-bee obey! She is ruled by nourishment given her; for she does not take her own food, but is fed like a child by the ...
( Category: Insects & Spiders March 22,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Alexandra Horowitz

-PERSON- Dogs’ capacities at cancer detection are, to my thinking, the perfect example of what seems most mysterious about the dog nose. Cancer is not only something we fear or ...
( Category: Pets & Animal Care March 21,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Cordelia Fine

CHAPTER 7 THE MYTH OF THE LEHMAN SISTERS There’s a very simple reason why most financial traders are young(ish) men. The nature of trading incorporates all the features for which ...
( Category: Psychology March 21,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2017-03-07 | Author:Lisa Feldman Barrett [Barrett, Lisa Feldman]

12 Is a Growling Dog Angry? * * * I don’t have a dog, but several friends’ dogs are part of my extended family. One of my favorites is Rowdy, ...
( Category: Emotions March 19,2017 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Florence Williams

7 Garden of Hedon Clearings. That’s what I needed. Slowly my brain righted itself into spaces unused for months. — HELEN MACDONALD In the Gaelic poem “Hallaig,” by Sorley MacLean, ...
( Category: Stress Management March 18,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-04-25 | Author:Rupert Sheldrake [Sheldrake, Rupert]

For every case like this that is reported in the newspapers, dozens must remain unpublicized. On our database we have ninety-five unpublished stories of homing dogs and sixty-one of homing ...
( Category: Mammals March 13,2017 )
epub |eng | 2007-06-04 | Author:Behe, Michael J. [Behe, Michael J.]

DARWIN MEETS MICHELSON-MORLEY P. falciparum, HIV, and E. coli are all very, very different from each other. They range from the simple to the complex, have very different life cycles, ...
( Category: Science & Religion March 11,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Dan Egan

THE DNA EVIDENCE THAT ASIAN CARP ARE SWIMMING IN LAKE Michigan has mounted in recent years. It turned up some 200 miles north of Chicago in the waters of Wisconsin’s ...
( Category: Environmental Policy March 9,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Guido Schwarzer, James R. Carpenter & Gerta Rücker

> c2 <- copas(ms1, gamma0.range=c(-1,2), gamma1.range=c(0,1)) > plot(c2) The resulting plot is shown in Fig. 5.11. We find that the range of γ 0 and γ 1 in the contour ...
( Category: Statistics February 26,2017 )