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BUENOS AIRES puma sandalen damen kaufen , July 1 (Xinhua) -- Shopping centers in Argentina's capital Buenos Aires pledged to offer deep discounts Saturday if the national team won its Tuesday match against Switzerland as part of the Brazil World Cup.


The city's main shopping centers said customers would enjoy discounts of as much as 50 percent should Argentina qualify to compete in the quarterfinal game.


The July 5 match between Argentina and either Belgium or the United States is scheduled to take place at 1 pm (16:00 GMT) in Brasilia.


According to the daily El Cronista, car dealerships and clothing stores joined in the publicity campaign, offering discounts during national team games or match days.


Like many parts of the world where football is the national pastime, city streets and shopping centers have been deserted during matches, as fans stay close to their television sets at home, or gather at restaurants to watch the games.


The city's Alto Palermo, Alto Avellaneda, Abasto Shopping, Soleil and Dot Baires shopping centers have announced Happy Hour-style discounts of up to 50 between 6 and 10 p.m. Saturday.


In addition, discounts of 10 to 40 percent will be offered throughout the day.


Among car dealerships, Renault was offering customers who walked in during the Argentina-Switzerland and bought a Clio Mio, an 11 percent refund on the sticker price.


Peugeot Argentina offered customers who came into any of their service centers during the World Cup (and up to July 31) discount coupons on their next visits of 10, 15 or 30 percent, depending on how well the team performed.

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SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 18 (Xinhua) -- Researchers at Oregon State University (OSU) have found that the offspring of wild salmon and first-generation hatchery fish differed in the activity of more than 700 genes.


The study on steelhead trout, a collaborative project between OSU and the Oregon Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, in the northwestern United States, offers genetic evidence that wild and hatchery fish are different at the DNA level.


In a paper published in Nature Communications, researchers said the wild and hatchery fish can become different with surprising speed, and a single generation of adaptation to the hatchery resulted in observable DNA changes that were passed on to offspring.


"A fish hatchery is a very artificial environment that causes strong natural selection pressures," said Michael Blouin, a professor of integrative biology in the OSU College of Science. "A concrete box with 50,000 other fish all crowded together and fed pellet food is clearly a lot different than an open stream."


Aside from crowding, which is common in the hatchery, injuries also happen more often and disease can be more prevalent.


Mark Christie, lead author of the study, said "a large number of genes were involved in pathways related to wound healing, immunity, and metabolism, and this is consistent with the idea that the earliest stages of domestication may involve adapting to highly crowded conditions."


The genetic changes are substantial and rapid, the study found. It is literally a process of evolution at work, but in this case it does not take multiple generations or long periods of time. "We expected hatcheries to have a genetic impact," Blouin said. "However, the large amount of change we observed at the DNA level was really amazing."


Differences in survival and reproductive success between hatchery and wild fish have long offered evidence of rapid adaptation to the hatchery environment. The new DNA evidence directly measured the activity of all genes in the offspring of hatchery and wild fish. It conclusively demonstrates that the genetic differences between hatchery and wild fish are large in scale and fully heritable.


While the study was able to identify some genetic changes that may explain how the fish are responding to the novel environment in the hatchery, researchers acknowledge that they do not know exactly what traits are being selected for.


With the question put to rest of whether hatchery fish are different, Blouin said, it may now be possible to determine how they are different, and work to address that problem. When the genetic changes that occur in a hatchery environment are better understood, it could be possible to change the way fish are raised in order to produce hatchery fish that are more like wild fish.

A captured monkey tries to untie the cord around its ankles after capture in Mumbai on Febraury 5, 2016 (AFP PhotoPunit Paranjpe)

Mumbai - The captured monkey, its arms tied tightly behind its back, sits crouched over in a Mumbai residential colony trying with its teeth to untie the cord bound around its ankles.


But this primate -- caught just moments ago by a professional monkey catcher in India's commercial capital -- isn't going anywhere for a while, other than straight into a cage.


The wild macaque was caged after locals said it had been causing a nuisance for more than six months, including stealing food and tearing up pillows that were on sale in one of the colony's shops.


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