Allometry between Suture Line Length and Phragmocone Volume in Some Cretaceous Ammonoids

2022 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Haruna Furui ◽  
Takao Ubukata
Keyword(s):  
2004 ◽  
Vol 63 (3) ◽  
pp. 143-149 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fred W. Mast ◽  
Charles M. Oman

The role of top-down processing on the horizontal-vertical line length illusion was examined by means of an ambiguous room with dual visual verticals. In one of the test conditions, the subjects were cued to one of the two verticals and were instructed to cognitively reassign the apparent vertical to the cued orientation. When they have mentally adjusted their perception, two lines in a plus sign configuration appeared and the subjects had to evaluate which line was longer. The results showed that the line length appeared longer when it was aligned with the direction of the vertical currently perceived by the subject. This study provides a demonstration that top-down processing influences lower level visual processing mechanisms. In another test condition, the subjects had all perceptual cues available and the influence was even stronger.


2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clare K. Porac ◽  
Alan Searleman ◽  
Alicia Dunbar
Keyword(s):  

2020 ◽  
Vol 141 ◽  
pp. 39-46
Author(s):  
MD Dorjievna Batueva ◽  
X Pan ◽  
J Zhang ◽  
X Liu ◽  
W Wei ◽  
...  

In the present study, we provide supplementary data for Myxidium cf. rhodei Léger, 1905 based on morphological, histological and molecular characterization. M. cf. rhodei was observed in the kidneys of 918 out of 942 (97%) roach Rutilus rutilus (Linnaeus, 1758). Myxospores of M. cf. rhodei were fusiform with pointed ends, measuring 12.7 ± 0.1 SD (11.8-13.4) µm in length and 4.6 ± 0.1 (3.8-5.4) µm in width. Two similar pear-shaped polar capsules were positioned at either ends of the longitudinal axis of the myxospore: each of these capsules measured 4.0 ± 0.1 (3.1-4.7) µm in length and 2.8 ± 0.1 (2.0-4.0) µm in width. Polar filaments were coiled into 4 to 5 turns. Approximately 18-20 longitudinal straight ridges were observed on the myxospore surface. The suture line was straight and distinctive, running near the middle of the valves. Histologically, the plasmodia of the present species were found in the Bowman’s capsules, and rarely in the interstitium of the host. Phylogenetic analysis revealed that M. cf. rhodei was sister to M. anatidum in the Myxidium clade including most Myxidium species from freshwater hosts.


2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-75
Author(s):  
R. R. Ishtukov ◽  
M. A. Nartailakov ◽  
V. S. Panteleev ◽  
V. V. Rezyapov

Introduction. One of the worst complication of different surgical diseases of abdominal cavity organs and of performed, on that regard, operational interventions, are intestinal festulas including without limitation deodenum fistulas. Longterm experience of surgical treatment of patients with unformed duodenal and high enteric fistulas show that it is feasible to have a clear surgical tactics with account of location level and type of fistulas, their quantity, volume of sarcous reduction, peritonitis and multi-organ failure syndrome. In this regard, the objective of this research is to find optimal surgical tactics and to determine the most effective method of treating duodenum fistulas of various causation.Materials and methods. Experimental work was carried out under conditions of experimentally formed intestinal fistula in rabbits of “Shinshilla” breed. After formation of fistula the animals were divided into 3 groups based on the method of removing artificially installed duodenal fistula: sealing through Albert — Schmieden — Lembert suture without fastening of suture line; sealing through fastening of intestinal suture with biological surgical glue; sealing through fastening with swine dermal collagen. Mechanical constancy of the sutures was measured with pneumocompression of sealed intestinal tract areas as well as with morphological study of surgical wound edges.Results. The results of histological study show that experiments with application of bio-implant demonstrated less vascular congestion and interstitial swelling. Phologistic infiltration also responded more efficiently both quantitatively (manifestation rate) and qualitatively (quick change of cell elements) in the group that used bio-implant.Conclusion. Results of morphological studies and pneumocompression data under modelling of duodenal fistulas in experimental animals show that application of bio-implant helps to earlier restore microcirculatory abnormality. 


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Randolph C Grace ◽  
Nicola J. Morton ◽  
Matt Grice ◽  
Kate Stuart ◽  
Simon Kemp

Grace et al. (2018) developed an ‘artificial algebra’ task in which participants learn to make an analogue response based on a combination of non-symbolic magnitudes by feedback and without explicit instruction. Here we tested if participants could learn to add stimulus magnitudes in this task in accord with the properties of an algebraic group. Three pairs of experiments tested the group properties of commutativity (Experiments 1a-b), identity and inverse existence (Experiments 2a-b) and associativity (Experiments 3a-b), with both line length and brightness modalities. Transfer designs were used in which participants responded on trials with feedback based on sums of magnitudes and later were tested with novel stimulus configurations. In all experiments, correlations of average responses with magnitude sums were high on trials with feedback, r = .97 and .96 for Experiments 1a-b, r = .97 and .96 for Experiments 2a-b, and ranged between r = .97 and .99 for Experiment 3a and between r = .82 and .95 for Experiment 3b. Responding on transfer trials was accurate and provided strong support for commutativity, identity and inverse existence, and associativity with line length, and for commutativity and identity and inverse existence with brightness. Deviations from associativity in Experiment 3b suggested that participants were averaging rather than adding brightness magnitudes. Our results confirm that the artificial algebra task can be used to study implicit computation and suggest that representations of magnitudes may have a structure similar to an algebraic group.


1969 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 134-138 ◽  
Author(s):  
James L. Marsten ◽  
Jack J. Greenberg ◽  
Juan C. Piccinini ◽  
Arkadi M. Rywlin
Keyword(s):  

2019 ◽  
Vol 500 (1) ◽  
pp. 531-549 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suzanne Bull ◽  
Joseph A. Cartwright

AbstractThis study shows how simple structural restoration of a discrete submarine landslide lobe can be applied to large-scale, multi-phase examples to identify different phases of slide-lobe development and evaluate their mode of emplacement. We present the most detailed analysis performed to date on a zone of intense contractional deformation, historically referred to as the compression zone, from the giant, multi-phase Storegga Slide, offshore Norway. 2D and 3D seismic data and bathymetry data show that the zone of large-scale (>650 m thick) contractional deformation can be genetically linked updip with a zone of intense depletion across a distance of 135 km. Quantification of depletion and accumulation along a representative dip-section reveals that significant depletion in the proximal region is not accommodated in the relatively mild amount (c. 5%) of downdip shortening. Dip-section restoration indicates a later, separate stage of deformation may have involved removal of a significant volume of material as part of the final stages of the Storegga Slide, as opposed to the minor volumes reported in previous studies.


2019 ◽  
Vol 131 ◽  
pp. 43-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Winfried Grassmann ◽  
Javad Tavakoli
Keyword(s):  

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document