POTENTIAL ANCESTRAL CONOIDEAN TOXINS IN THE VENOM COCKTAIL OF THE CARNIVOROUS SNAIL RAPHITOMA PURPUREA (MONTAGU, 1803) (NEOGASTROPODA: RAPHITOMIDAE)

Potential Ancestral Conoidean Toxins in the Venom Cocktail of the Carnivorous Snail Raphitoma purpurea (Montagu, 1803) (Neogastropoda: Raphitomidae)

Venomous marine gastropods of the superfamily Conoidea possess a rich arsenal of toxins, including neuroactive toxins.Venom adaptations might have played a fundamental role in the radiation of conoideans; nevertheless, there is still no knowledge about the venom of the most diversified family of the group: Raphitomidae Bellardi, 1875.In this study,

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Studying Relationship between Efficiency and Structural Variables based on SCP Paradigm in Iranian Industry Sector (Bootstrap Approach in Statistical Inference)

This paper aims to examine the relationship between the structural and performance variables in 140 Iranian industries, besides investigating structure of industrial markets according to the Four-firm concentration ratio plus cost advantage ratio (CDR).Then the study estimates efficiency level kuza growth premium oil of the industries under the sto

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Pareto Design of Decoupled Sliding-Mode Controllers for Nonlinear Systems Based on a Multiobjective Genetic Algorithm

This paper presents Pareto design of decoupled sliding-mode controllers based on a multiobjective genetic algorithm for several fourth-order coupled nonlinear systems.In order to achieve an optimum kuza growth premium oil controller, at first, the decoupled sliding mode controller is applied to stablize the fourth-order coupled nonlinear systems at

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Making the most of existing data in conservation research

Much attention in recent years has been focused on making biodiversity data open and accessible to researchers.Yet ensuring the availability of these fryd green apple data is only the first step in preventing data waste.Here, we argue that researchers need to do a better job of using available datasets.We recommend that researchers search for exist

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