The religious pilgrimage of Hajj is one of the largest annual gatherings in the world.Every year approximately three million pilgrims travel from all over the world to perform Hajj in Mecca in Saudi Arabia.The high population density of pilgrims in confined settings throughout the Hajj rituals can facilitate infectious disease transmission among th
Phylogeography of Ivory shell (Babylonia areolata) in the Gulf of Thailand revealed by COI gene structure and differentiation of shell color by ITS1 DNA
Babylonia areolata is an aquatic mollusk in the genus of the gastropod family Buccinidae.Genetic variations were observed in the 542 base pairs of the sequences from silver lining herbs kidney support its cytochrome oxidase subunit I (COI) gene of mtDNA.COI alignments showed that there were two monophyletic clades on turbo air m3f24-1 the phylogene
Evolution of Brains and Computers: The Roads Not Taken
When computers started to become a dominant part of technology around the 1950s, fundamental questions about reliable designs and robustness were of great relevance.Their development gave rise to the exploration of new questions, such as what made brains reliable (since neurons can die) and how computers could get inspiration from neural systems.In
Physiognomy and distribution of mountain meadows in an alpine valley over 150 years of spontaneous forest expansion
Through the classification of current and historical aerial photosbetween 1973 and 2006, we analysed the evolution of size, shape and connectivity of 59 mountain meadows (maggenghi) of the Pejo district (Trentino, Northern Italy).The maggenghi are scattered patches within a forested matrix.We conducted the same analysis on an Austro-Hungarian cadas