A technical summary and compilation of characteristics and specifications on steep-gradient aircraft; [Project Hummingbird, technical report]

Mode of access: Internet.

Heat extraction from the ANL research salt gradient solar pond /

"ILENR/AE-86/03."

Lettres au peuple français, sur la véritable conspiration du moment

In defense of the Jesuits.

Précis de l'histoire universelle : ou, Tableau historique présentant les vicissitudes des nations, leur agrandissement, leur décadence et leurs catastrophes, depuis le temps où elles ont commencé à être connues jusqu'au moment actuel /

Includes index.

Nouveaux dialogues des morts entre les plus fameux personnages de la révolution française et plusieurs hommes célèbres, anciens et modernes, morts avant la révolution. Suivis de plusieurs autres dialogues entre des personnages vivants, restés en France ou emigrés, et d'autres interlocuteurs de différentes nations sur les divers évènements de notre révolution, jusq'au moment actuel ...

Mode of access: Internet.

Précis chronologique, généalogique et anecdotique de l'histoire de France : contenant la généalogie exacte et raisonnée des Souverains de France depuis l'origine de la monarchie et la chronologie de la révolution française jusqu'au moment actuel ... /

Includes index.

Just a minute! : moment readings on Scripture passages, and a few on the great war /

Mode of access: Internet.

Temperature gradient and thermal stresses in bodies with uniformly distributed volume heat sources.

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Safety through steep gradient aircraft : a survey of the status and effects of vertical and near-vertical take-off and landing /

Bibliography: p. 73-75.

Uber den Einfluss der Torsion auf das magnetische Moment zirkular magnetisierter Nickel- und Eisendrahte.

Thesis (doctoral)--Georg-Augusts-Universitat, Gottingen.

Untersuchungen uber den Stand des Kindskopfes bei Primi und Multigravidis und seine Eindruckbarkeit in den Beckenkanal als prognostisches Moment der Geburt.

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Faune entomologique française: Lépidoptères; descriptions de tous les papillons qui se trouvent en France, indiquant l'époque de l'éclosion de chaque espèce, les localités qu'elle fréquent, la plante qui nourrit la chenille, le moment ou il convient de la chasser précédées de renseignements sur la chasse, la préparation et la conservation, etc.

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The genetic covariance among clinal environments after adaptation to an environmental gradient in Drosophila serrata

We examined the genetic basis of clinal adaptation by determining the evolutionary response of life-history traits to laboratory natural selection along a gradient of thermal stress in Drosophila serrata. A gradient of heat stress was created by exposing larvae to a heat stress of 36degrees for 4 hr for 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 days of larval development, with the remainder of development taking place at 25degrees. Replicated lines were exposed to each level of this stress every second generation for 30 generations. At the end of selection, we conducted a complete reciprocal transfer experiment where all populations were raised in all environments, to estimate the realized additive genetic covariance matrix among clinal environments in three life-history traits. Visualization of the genetic covariance functions of the life-history traits revealed that the genetic correlation between environments generally declined as environments became more different and even became negative between the most different environments in some cases. One exception to this general pattern was a life-history trait representing the classic trade-off between development time and body size, which responded to selection in a similar genetic fashion across all environments. Adaptation to clinal environments may involve a number of distinct genetic effects along the length of the cline, the complexity of which may not be fully revealed by focusing primarily on populations at the ends of the cline.

Plasma osmolyte concentrations and rectal gland mass of bull sharks Carcharhinus leucas, captured along a salinity gradient

Bull sharks (Carcharhinus leucas) were captured across a salinity gradient from freshwater (FW) to seawater (SW). Across all salinities, C leucas were hyperosmotic to the environment. Plasma osmolarity in FW-captured animals (642 +/- 7 mosM) was significantly reduced compared to SW-captured animals (1067 +/- 21 mosM). In FW animals, sodium, chloride and urea were 208 +/- 3, 203 +/- 3 and 192 +/- 2 mmol l(-1), respectively. Plasma sodium, chloride and urea in SW-captured C leucas were 289 +/- 3, 296 +/- 6 and 370 +/- 10 mmol l(-1), respectively. The increase in plasma osmolarity between FW and SW was not linear. Between FW (3 mosM) and 24%o SW (676 mosM), plasma osmolarity increased by 22% or 0.92% per 1parts per thousand rise in salinity. Between 24%o and 33parts per thousand, plasma osmolarity increased by 33% or 4.7% per 1 parts per thousand rise in salinity, largely due to a sharp increase in plasma urea between 28parts per thousand and 33parts per thousand. C. leucas moving between FW and SW appear to be faced with three major osmoregulatory challenges, these occur between 0-10parts per thousand, 11-20parts per thousand and 21-33parts per thousand. A comparison between C leucas captured in FW and estuarine environments (20-28%o) in the Brisbane River revealed no difference in the mass of rectal glands between these animals. However, a comparison of rectal gland mass between FW animals captured in the Brisbane River and Rio San Juan/Lake Nicaragua showed that animals in the latter system had a significantly smaller rectal gland mass at a given length than animals in the Brisbane River. The physiological challenges and mechanisms required for C leucas moving between FW and SW, as well as the ecological implications of these data are discussed. (C) 2004 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.