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  • 1
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    Periodic shedding and replacement of venomous caudal spines, with special reference to South American freshwater stingrays, Potamotrygon spp. (1988)
    Springer
    Environmental biology of fishes 23 (1988), S. 299-314 
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    ISSN: 1573-5133
    Keywords: Batoidea ; Chondrichthyes ; Elasmobranchii ; Amazon ; Magdalena ; Maracaibo ; Orinoco ; Paraná-Paraguay
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Synopsis The number of venomous caudal spines and their length and position relative to one another were determined in seven species of South American freshwater rays (Potamotrygonidae) and eight marine or euryhaline species of four families from the Caribbean Coast of South and Central America. Most species have two visible spines at certain stages in the shedding-replacement cycle and only one visible spine at other stages (following shedding). If we include the embryological beginnings of the spines before they erupt and become visible, the spine counts of most rays are actually 2 rather than 1 or 2. Since most species apparently follow this pattern, spine counts are of little use in distinguishing between species except in the relatively few that may have only one, or no spines. Eight captive Potamotrygon specimens maintained in simulated tropical temperature conditions over 12 months showed periodic shedding and replacement of spines. The molts were biannual for a given ray but annual for a given spine. They alternated between two spine loci and their cycles were approximately six months out of phase with each other. Recent studies on Dasyatis sabina by others report only one molt per year, with replacement spines forming always posterior to the primary spine rather than alternating between posterior and anterior. Supernumerary spines (counts of more than two, up to five) are also discussed, as are counts of one and zero.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00005241
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  • 2
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    Reproduction and development of the South American freshwater stingrays,Potamotrygon circularis and P. motoro (1983)
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    Environmental biology of fishes 9 (1983), S. 3-24 
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    ISSN: 1573-5133
    Keywords: Amazonia ; Batoidea ; Brazil ; Captive breeding ; Chondrichthyes ; Colombia ; Elasmobranchii ; Freshwater adaptation ; Growth rate ; Potamotrygonidae
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Synopsis Observations of reproductive features and body measurements were made on wild-caught, freshwater stingrays, Potamotrygon circularis and P. motoro, from the Amazon drainage of western Brazil and southern Colombia. Further observations were made in Detroit's Belle Isle Aquarium on a captive pair of P. motoro and their descendants, which constitute the first known captive breeding colony of potamotrygonids. The gross structure and function of female and male reproductive systems are described. There is no obvious difference between those of the two species. They are aplacentally viviparous, the young being nourished in advanced stages by uterine milk secreted by trophonemata. Size at onset and completion of sexual maturation, breeding season and behavior, gestation period, litter size and sex ratios are discussed. Up to 21 proportional measurements were made on several fetal and postnatal stages of both species. Several proportional changes occur in very early fetal life, but most body proportions undergo only minor changes from advanced fetal through adult stages. A growth curve is proposed for P. motoro based on observations of the captive colony.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00001055
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    The bull shark (Carcharhinus leucas) and largetooth sash (Pristis perotteti) in Lake Bayano, a tropical man-made impoundment in Panama (1982)
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    Environmental biology of fishes 7 (1982), S. 341-347 
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    ISSN: 1573-5133
    Keywords: Elasmobranchii ; Euryhalinity ; Freshwater adaptation ; Dam lake ; Osmoregulation ; Central America
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Synopsis The Río Bayano in eastern Panama is one of many tropical rivers in which bull sharks (Carcharhinus leucas) and largetooth sawfish (Pristis perotteti) have been known to occur. Since both species can osmoregulate in fresh water throughout life, theoretically, both could survive in landlocked situations for many years.P. perotteti reproduces in fresh water, butC. leucas ordinarily does not, so only the former would appear to have the potential for establishing a breeding stock in such a landlocked freshwater body. The damming of the Rio Bayano and the creation of a large impoundment in 1976 provides a test of the ability of members of both species trapped there to survive and to establish breeding stocks. In 1980 and 1981 three mature femaleC. leucas were found dead in Lake Bayano and three sub-adult femaleP. perotteti were taken by trammel net. These events confirm the ability of both to survive in fresh water for long periods, but the establishment of breeding stocks appears doubtful and the question may not be answered for many years.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00005568
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    Synthesis of an N-Acetylated Heparin Pentasaccharide and its anticoagulant activity in comparison with the heparin pentasaccharide with high anti-factor-Xa activity (1989)
    New York, NY : Wiley-Blackwell
    Helvetica Chimica Acta 72 (1989), S. 1268-1277 
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    ISSN: 0018-019X
    Keywords: Chemistry ; Organic Chemistry
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology
    Notes: The synthesis of tri-N-acetylated heparin pentasaccharide 2 is described. It was assembled from five suitably blocked monosaccharide units (3-7). Glucuronic-acid building block 4 was prepared from glucose by direct Jones oxidation of the 6-O-trityl derivative 18. The resulting acid 16 was esterified to 17 in large mounts using methyl chloroformate/base. Trimethylsilyl bromide proved to be an excellent reagent for the hydrolysis of a prop-1-enyl glycoside (19 →21). The pentasaccharide 29 was obtained by a [2 + 2] + 1 synthesis, the glycosylation reactions furnished good to very good yields. The identity of protected oligosaccharides was confirmed by 1H-NMR spectroscopy. Sequential deblocking of the pentasaccharide, O-sulfation, and N-acetylation gave 2 which was shown to exhibit ca. 600 times lower anticoagulant activity than pentasaccharide 1.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hlca.19890720613
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    Heterogeneous nucleation and growth of spherulites from a polycaprolactone (poly(1-oxy-6-oxohexamethylene)) melt (1974)
    New York : Wiley-Blackwell
    Die Makromolekulare Chemie 175 (1974), S. 2483-2488 
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    ISSN: 0025-116X
    Keywords: Chemistry ; Polymer and Materials Science
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology , Physics
    Description / Table of Contents: Es wird über den Beginn einer Untersuchung zur Kristallisationskinetik von Polycaprolacton (Poly(1-oxy-6-oxohexamethylene) (1)) berichtet. Die primäre Keimbildung und das primäre Sphärolith-Wachstum aus der Polymerschmelze werden bei hinreichend hohen Temperaturen verfolgt, wodurch sichergestellt ist, daß das Wachstum der Kristallite durch Keimbildung bestimmt ist. Die kinetischen Daten werden weitgehend mit Hilfe des Avrami-Modells interpretiert, welches sich gut auf die Kristallisation von 1 anwenden ließ.
    Notes: A kinetic crystallization study of polycaprolactone (poly(1-oxy-6-oxohexamethylene) (1)) has been initiated to investigate the primary nucleation and primary spherulitic growth from a polymer melt at temperatures that are high enough to insure nucleation-limited crystallite growth. The analysis of the kinetic data is largely made on the basis of an Avrami model which proved to be well suited for the interpretation of the crystallization of 1.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/macp.1974.021750821
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    Osteoblast migration on poly(α-hydroxy esters) (1996)
    New York, NY [u.a.] : Wiley-Blackwell
    Biotechnology and Bioengineering 50 (1996), S. 443-451 
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    ISSN: 0006-3592
    Keywords: osteoblast ; migration ; poly(αhydroxy esters) ; poly(DL-lactic-co-glycolic acid) ; PLGA ; biodegradable polymers ; tissue engineering ; Chemistry ; Biochemistry and Biotechnology
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Biology , Process Engineering, Biotechnology, Nutrition Technology
    Notes: We investigated the migration of rat calvaria osteoblast populations on poly(α-hydroxy ester) films for up to 14 days to determine effects of substrate composition and culture conditions on the migratory characteristics of osteoblasts. Initial osteoblast culture conditions included cell colonies formed by seeding a high (84,000 cells/cm2) or low (42,000 cells/cm2) density of isolated osteoblasts on the polymer films, and bone tissue cultures formed by plating bone chips directly on the substrates. High density osteoblast colonies cultured and allowed to migrate and proliferate radially on 85:15 poly(DL-lactic-co-glycolic acid) (PLGA) films, 75:25 PLGA films, and tissue culture polystyrene controls demonstrated that the copolymer ratio in the polymer films did not affect the rate of increase in substrate surface area (or culture area) covered by the growing cell colony. However, the rate of increase in culture area was dependent on the initial osteoblast seeding density. Initial cell colonies formed with a lower osteoblast seeding density on 75:25 PLGA resulted in a lower rate of increase in culture area, specifically 4.9 ± 0.3 mm2/day, versus 14.1 ± 0.7 mm2/day for colonies seeded with a higher density of cells on the same polymer films. The proliferation rate for osteoblasts in the high and low density seeded osteoblast colonies did not differ, whereas the proliferation rate for the osteoblasts arising from the bone chips was lower than either of these isolated cell colonies. Confocal and light microscopy revealed that the osteoblast migration occurred as a monolayer of individual osteoblasts and not a calcified tissue front. These results demonstrated that cell seeding conditions strongly affect the rates of osteoblast migration and proliferation on biodegradable poly(α-hydroxy esters). © 1996 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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    Adaptive, global, extended Kalman filters for training feedforward neural networks (1994)
    New York, NY : Wiley-Blackwell
    Journal of Chemometrics 8 (1994), S. 391-407 
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    ISSN: 0886-9383
    Keywords: Neural networks ; Non-linear multivariate regression ; Pattern classification ; Kalman filter ; Chemistry ; Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology
    Notes: Finding methods for the optimization of weights in feedforward neural networks has become an ongoing developmental process in connectionist research. The current focus on finding new methods for the optimization of weights is mostly the result of the slow and unreliable convergence properties of the gradient descent optimization used in the original back-propagation algorithm. More accurate and computationally expensive second-order gradient methods have displaced earlier first-order gradient optimization of the network connection weights. The global, extended Kalman filter is among the most accurate and computationally expensive of these second-order weight optimization methods. The iterative, second-order nature of the filter results in a large number of calculations for each sweep of the training set. This can increase the training time dramatically when training is conducted with data sets that contain large numbers of training patterns. In this paper an adaptive variant of the global, extended Kalman filter that exhibits substantially improved convergence properties is presented and discussed. The adaptive mechanism permits more rapid convergence of network training by identifying data that contain redundant information and avoiding calculations based on this redundant information.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cem.1180080605
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    Structure, energetics, and dynamics of lipid-protein interactions: A molecular dynamics study of the gramicidin A channel in a DMPC bilayer (1996)
    New York, NY : Wiley-Blackwell
    Proteins: Structure, Function, and Genetics 24 (1996), S. 92-114 
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    ISSN: 0887-3585
    Keywords: phospholipid membranes ; permeation ; antibiotics ; computer simulations ; tryptophan ; water ; Chemistry ; Biochemistry and Biotechnology
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: The microscopic details of lipid-protein interactions are examined using molecular dynamics simulations of the gramicidin A channel embedded in a fully hydrated dimyristoyl phosphatidylcholine (DMPC) bilayer. A novel construction protocol was used to assemble the initial configurations of the membrane protein complex for the simulations. Three hundreds systems were constructed with different initial lipid placement and conformations. Seven systems were simulated with molecular dynamics. One system was simulated for a total of 600 psec, four were simulated for 300 psec, and two for 100 psec. Analysis of the resulting trajectories shows that the bulk solvent-membrane interface region is much broader than traditionally pictured in simplified continuum theories: its width is almost 15 Å. In addition, lipid-protein interactions are far more varied, both structurally and energetically, than is usually assumed: the total interaction energy between the gramicidin A and the individual lipids varies from 0 to -50 kcal/mol. The deuterium quadrupolar splittings of the lipid acyl chains calculated from the trajectories are in good agreement with experimental data. The lipid chains in direct contact with the GA are ordered but the effect is not uniform due to the irregular surface of the protein. Energy decompositions shows that the most energetically favorable interactions between lipid and protein involve nearly equal contributions from van der Waals and electrostatic interactions. The tryptophans, located near the bulk-membrane interface, appear to be particularly important in mediating both hydrogen bonding interactions with the lipid glycerol backbone and water and also in forming favorable van der Waals contacts with the hydrocarbon chains. In contrast, the interactions of the leucine residues with the lipids, also located near the interface, are dominated by van der Waals interactions with the hydrocarbon lipid chains.
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    Dynamic analysis of a microbial process: A systems engineering approach (1973)
    New York, NY [u.a.] : Wiley-Blackwell
    Biotechnology and Bioengineering 15 (1973), S. 377-393 
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    ISSN: 0006-3592
    Keywords: Chemistry ; Biochemistry and Biotechnology
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Biology , Process Engineering, Biotechnology, Nutrition Technology
    Notes: A general mathematical model of the chemostat system is developed in order to define an experimental program of dynamic testing. A glucose-limited culture ofSaccharomyces cerevisiae was grown in a chemostat using chemically defined medium. The chemostat was perturbed from an initial steady state by changes in input glucose concentration, dilution rate, pH, and temperature. Dynamic responses of cell mass, glucose, cell number, RNA, and protein concentrations were measured. A number of simulation techniques were used in developing a dynamic mathematical model and in comparing the developed model with experimental data as well as the Monod model. The resulting model was found to be quantitatively accurate and superior to the Monod model. The developed model was interpreted in the light of cell physiology. Adjustment of intracellular RNA fraction was found to be rate limiting in acceleration of cell specific growth rate.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/bit.260150212
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    Perimeter Exploration of Linear Chains of Circles (1995)
    Weinheim : Wiley-Blackwell
    Particle and Particle Systems Characterization 12 (1995), S. 257-263 
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    ISSN: 0934-0866
    Keywords: Chemistry ; Industrial Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, Production Engineering, Mining and Metallurgy, Traffic Engineering, Precision Mechanics , Process Engineering, Biotechnology, Nutrition Technology
    Notes: Perimeter data, obtained from structured walks performed upon straight chains of circles and displayed in Richardson plots, reveal two distinct classes of discontinuities: textural and structural. Textural discontinuities contain information about the surface features of the profile, while structural discontinuities reveal the profile's overall shape. The origins of both types of discontinuities have easy explanations. The highly predictable behavior of the structural discontinuities serves as the basis of a newly proposed method of analysis for perimeter data. The number of structural discontinuities is equal to N, the number of circles in the chain; furthermore, the value of the step size \documentclass{article}\pagestyle{empty}\begin{document}$ \underline {\lambda} $\end{document} * associated with the first structural discontinuity is inversely related to N. These properties seem is be retained when the circles slightly intersect and also when the circles vary in diameter. Analysis of the structural discontinuities may provide a new method suitable for automated examination of chain-like agglomerate particles.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ppsc.19950120508
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