In the century of research chronicled between 1917 and 2017, dairy goats have gone from
simply serving as surrogates to cows to serving as transgenic carriers of human enzymes …

Abstract The 'centre–periphery hypothesis'(CPH) is a long‐standing postulate in ecology
that states that genetic variation and demographic performance of a species decrease from …

Heavy metals such as lead, mercury, cadmium, zinc and copper are among the most
important pollutants because of their non-biodegradability and toxicity above certain …

The effects of the present biodiversity crisis have been largely focused on the loss of
species. However, a missed component of biodiversity loss that often accompanies or even …

Evolution drives, and is driven by, demography. A genotype moulds its phenotype's age
patterns of mortality and fertility in an environment; these two patterns in turn determine the …

The results of a surveillance study conducted by the International Nosocomial Infection
Control Consortium (INICC) from January 2004 through December 2009 in 422 intensive …

Background and Purpose—Studies on the relation between blood pressure (BP) and stroke
outcome have shown contradictory results. We explored the association of systolic (SBP) …

The use of the water quality index (WQI) and the dissolved oxygen deficit (D) as simple
indicators of the watersheds pollution was investigated and compared in the Municipality of …

Context Approximately 10% of women with invasive epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) carry
deleterious germline mutations in BRCA1 or BRCA2. A recent article suggested that BRCA2 …

The worldwide volume and social relevance of migratory processes justify the need to study
the psychological acculturation of the host and immigrant populations through a model …