Plasmonic nanostructures, particularly of noble-metal Au and Ag, have attracted long-lasting research interests because of their intriguing physical and chemical properties.Under light excitation, their conduction electrons can form jodhpurs collective oscillation with the electromagnetic fields at particular wavelength, leading to localized surfac
The biodiversity of coral reef habitats is rapidly declining due to the effects of anthropogenic climate change, prompting the use of Breast Feeding active restoration as a mitigation strategy.Sexual propagation can maintain or enhance genetic diversity in restoration of these ecosystems, but these approaches suffer from a range of inefficiencies i
The asilid genus Laphyctis Loew, 1858 is revised.The genus is restricted to the Afrotropical Region where it has been confused with the more widely distributed Laphystia Loew, 1847, which currently has no Afrotropical representatives.Three previously described species are recognised: Laphyctis Electronic Boards gigantella (Loew, 1852), type of the
In night-migratory songbirds, neurobiological and behavioral evidence suggest the existence of a magnetic sense associated with the ophthalmic branch of the trigeminal nerve (V1), possibly providing magnetic positional information.Curiously, neither the unequivocal existence, structural nature, nor the exact location of any sensory structure has be
In a meta-analysis with multiple end points of interests that are correlated between or within studies, multivariate approach to meta-analysis has a potential to produce more precise estimates of effects by exploiting the correlation structure between end points.However, under random-effects assumption the multivariate estimation is more complex (a