Elasmobranchs observed in deepwaters (45-330m) at Isla del Coco National Park, Costa Rica (Eastern Tropical Pacific)

Isla del Coco is an oceanic island 500km off the Pacific coast of Costa Rica.It is a National Park and its marine fauna has been relatively well protected.The island is famous for its elasmobranch (sharks, rays and skates) sightings in shallow waters.Here we present a catalogue of the deepwater elasmobranchs observed with the DeepSee submersible.Fi

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Case report: A rare DLST mutation in patient with metastatic pheochromocytoma: clinical implications and management challenges

BackgroundPheochromocytoma is one of the most hereditary human tumors with at least 20 susceptible genes undergoing germline and somatic mutations, and other mutations less than 1% -2%.In recent years, other rare mutations have gradually been discovered to be possibly related to the pathogenesis and metastasis of pheochromocytoma.Most patients with

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Investigation of unsteady flow in axial turbine stage

The never ending process to increase the efficiency of turbine stages introduced an idea to create an axial turbine stage test rig as part of closed loop transonic wind tunnel at Vyzkumny a zkusebni letecky ustav (VZLU).Studying of unsteady flow field behaviours in turbine stages is nowadays essential in the development process.Therefore, the test

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REASONABLE AND PROBABLE CAUSE IN THE LAW OF MALICIOUS PROSECUTION: A REVIEW OF SOUTH AFRICAN AND COMMONWEALTH DECISIONS

The requirement that the plaintiff in an action for malicious prosecution must prove a lack of reasonable and probable cause to initiate, instigate or continue the prosecution on the part of the instigator or prosecutor is one of the four elements of that cause of action.It is a vital link between the lawfulness of the prosecution and the state of

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