REPRODUCTIVE TRAITS AND HATCHLING CHARACTERISTICS OF THE ENDEMIC SARDINIAN GRASS SNAKE (NATRIX HELVETICA CETTI): FIRST FIELD DATA, WITH SCREENING FOR OPHIDIOMYCES OPHIDIICOLA

Reproductive Traits and Hatchling Characteristics of the Endemic Sardinian Grass Snake (Natrix helvetica cetti): First Field Data, with Screening for Ophidiomyces ophidiicola

The Sardinian grass snake, Natrix helvetica cetti, is an island-endemic subspecies with a restricted and highly fragmented distribution confined to Sardinia, Italy.Information on its reproductive biology and wild offspring remain scarce in the scientific literature.This present study reports the first recorded data on a clutch of eggs laid by a wil

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A case of mechanical pulmonary valve thrombosis

Prosthetic valve thrombosis (PVT) is a rare but dreadful complication of mechanical prosthetic valves.Even though mechanical valves in pulmonary position are rarely implanted, obstruction by thrombosis warrants bempresas.com rapid diagnostic assessment and treatment.Transthoracic echocardiography plays an important role than transesophageal echocar

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Optimum Operational Parameters for Yawed Wind Turbines

A set of systematical optimum operational parameters for wind turbines under various wind directions is derived by using combined momentum-energy and blade-element-energy concepts.The derivations are solved numerically by fixing some parameters at practical values.Then, the interactions between the produced power and the influential factors of it a

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Patronizing the Mass: How Middle-Agents Deepened Populism and Post-Truth in Indonesia 2019 Presidential Election

Indonesian 2019 presidential election was extensively highlighted as a populist rematch between the technocratic Jokowi and the chauvinist Prabowo.There were at least two dimensions bempresas.com that contributed to the existing populist atmosphere at the presidential election: the religio-social condition of the people and the personal appearance

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