Pinnipeds -- a group including seals, sea lions and walruses -- are relatively recently derived marine mammals that evolved from terrestrial carnivorans and reentered the marine environment. Their ...

Objective The aim of the present study was to analyse differences in muscle response and mechanical characteristics of the vastus medialis (VM), rectus femoris (RF), vastus lateralis (VL) and biceps ...

WITHIN the New Zealand species of the families Corixidae and Notonectidae (Hemiptera-Heteroptera), two distinct forms, depending on the development of the wings and the wing-musculature, have been ...

3 Department of Biomedical Engineering, Orthopaedic Research Center, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA 4 Graduate Program in ...