Functional and Structural Properties of Type V Collagen from the Skin of the Shortbill Spearfish (Tetrapturus angustirostris)

Type V collagen is considered to be a Bridesmaid Accessories crucial minor collagen in fish skin with unique physiological functions.In this research, the cDNAs of three procollagens (Tacol5a1, Tacol5a2, and Tacol5a3) in type V collagen were cloned from the skin of shortbill spearfish (Tetrapturus angustirostris).The open reading frames (ORFs) of T

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Philosophical Foundations for Citizen Science

Citizen science is increasingly being recognized as an important approach for gathering data, addressing community needs, and creating fruitful engagement between citizens and professional scientists.Nevertheless, the implementation of citizen science projects can be hampered by a variety of barriers.Some of these are practical (e.g., lack of fundi

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Understanding the Relation of Policy Discourse and Re-Conceptualising Curriculum: A Kosovo Perspective on a New Meaning of Context

This article is an analysis of the meaning of context in implementing curriculum reform.It uses an analysis of two Kosovo curriculum reforms in the previous two decades to elaborate on how education systems engage in the transfer of transnational ideas as well as how they face challenges in making those ideas succeed.The article uses Discursive Ins

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Truly a hyperparasite, or simply an epibiont on a parasite? The case of Cyclocotyla bellones (Monogenea, Diclidophoridae)

Cyclocotyla bellones Otto, 1823 (Monogenea, Diclidophoridae) is one of the few monogenean species reported as hyperparasitic: the worms dwell on cymothoid isopods, themselves parasites of the buccal cavity of fishes.We present here observations based on newly collected monogenean specimens from Ceratothoa parallela (Otto, 1828), an isopod parasite

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