Objective: The objective of this study was to evaluate nutritional status of high yielding dairy cattle around parturition. Materials and methods: Nutritional status of cows around the peri-parturient period was investigated for six months in dairy farm. Seven to eight months’ pregnant cows were selected for this study. Blood samples from 24 randomly selected cows were collected at stage-1, -2 ...

Brown seaweeds are abundant in Portuguese coastline and represent an almost unexploited marine economic resource. One of the most common species, easily available for harvesting in the northwest coast, is Saccorhiza polyschides grows in the lowest shore and costal rocky reefs. It is almost exclusively used by local farmers as natural fertilizer, but contains a substantial amount of valuable com...

Temperature is an often overlooked water quality parameter that may influence corrosion of iron pipes in drinking water distribution systems. This study examined corrosion of cast iron samples in an aerobic, microbially stable water at different constant temperatures (5, 20, and 25°C) as well as in waters where the temperature continuously cycled (17.5 – 23°C and 5 – 20°C). The composition and ...

Background and aims: Cats carry a lot of zoonotic parasites such as Toxoplasma gondii (T. gondii) which causes toxoplasmosis in warm-blooded animals. Toxoplasmosis includes wide range of symptoms in its intermediate and definitive hosts but the worst symptoms have been seen in pregnant women and also on immunocompromised hosts. Considering the importance of the fact that cats are as the only de...

In 2014, glasshouse-grown wasabi (Eutrema japonica) grown in a compost based media displayed symptoms of poor growth and wilting. Visual assessment the roots showed that 25% symptomatic plants sampled had raised black lesions on affecting between 5 20% total root area. To isolate causal agent, affected material (approximately mm3) was surface disinfested sodium hypochlorite (2%) for 30 s, rinse...

the effects of magnesium hydroxide and l-lactide dimer as additives on thermal properties and morphology of poly(l-lactide) (plla) films were studied. hence, neat plla films and films containing additives (10% w/w) were prepared in dichloromethane at room temperature via solution casting. to evaluate thermal history on polymer properties, plla films were annealed by different processes. in one ...