OpenCMISS is an open-source modeling environment aimed, in particular, at the solution of bioengineering problems. OpenCMISS consists of two main parts: a computational library (OpenCMISS-Iron) and a field manipulation and visualization library (OpenCMISS-Zinc). OpenCMISS is designed for the solution of coupled multi-scale, multi-physics problems in a general-purpose parallel environment. CellM...

Understanding the human heart is a subject of much interest. Heart problems are a majorcause of death in developed countries, and much effort has been put into elucidating thecauses of heart disease in the hope of developing cures. Many drugs also have adverse sideeffects on the heart, which drug companies would like to avoid.Computer simulations have played an important part in...

Asymbiotic and associative diazotropic bacteria such as Azotobacter and Azosprillum, respectively are widely distributed in different rhizospheric and nonrhizospheric soils and help in growth and development of plants. Sixty two soil samples were collected from different crop rotations namely Rice-Wheat, Vegetables, Agro forestry and Grassland from the districts Chandauli, Jaunpur,Ballia, Ghazi...

introduction: transplantation of germ cells restores the male fertility. nevertheless, a lot of questions remain incompletely resolved. the aim of this study was to evaluate in vitro colonization efficiency of germ cells and sperm production capacity of spermatogonial cells before and after culture by sperm number assay in epididymis of recipient mice. materials and methods: we developed a sert...

Probiotics can improve growth, survival and resistance to pathogenic organisms of the cultivated species in aquaculture systems with water recirculation. However, their possible benefits on biofloc systems have been less studied. In this study, the benefits of Bacillus amyloliquefaciens bacterium, on a biofloc culture of Litopenaeus vannamei were evaluated. B. amyloliquefaciens was applied as d...

The dispersal potential of crown-of-thorns starfish (CoTS) larvae is important in understanding both the initiation and spread of population outbreaks, and is fundamentally dependent upon how long larvae can persist while still retaining the capacity to settle. This study quantified variation in larval survivorship and settlement rates for CoTS maintained at three different densities of a singl...