This study evaluated the haematological changes in Nile tilapia experimentally infected with 1 x 10(3) and 1 x 10(6) colony-forming units (CFU)/mL of Enterococcus sp. in the swim bladder. The experiment consisted of four treatments in triplicates: non-injected fish (NI); fish injected with 1 mL of sterile saline solution 0.65% (SAL); fish injected with 1 x 10(3) and 1 x 10(6) CFU/mL of Enteroco...

To provide estimates of horizontal gene transfer from transgenic crops to indigenous soil bacteria, transformation frequencies were obtained for naturally transformable Acinetobacter baylyi BD413 using a chromosomally integrated plant transgene. The transgene comprised sequences for two phenotypic markers: kanamycin resistance (npt II) and green fluorescent protein (gfp), expressed from their o...

The purpose of this paper is twofold. First we derive theoretically, using appropriate transformation on x(n), the closed-form solution of the nonlinear difference equation x(n+1) = 1/(±1 + x(n)), n ∈ N_0. The form of solution of this equation, however, was first obtained in [10] but through induction principle. Then, with the solution of the above equation at hand, we prove a case ...

In this paper, we use the structure theory to prove an analog to a well-known theorem of Herstein as follows: Let R be a ring with center C such that for all x,y ? R either [x,y]= 0 or x-x [x,y]? C for some non negative integer n= n(x,y) dependingon x and y. Then R is commutative.

The survival of Escherichia coli in bottom sediment (Lake Onalaska, navigation pool no. 7, Mississippi River) was studied by using in situ dialysis culture of sterile (autoclaved) and unsterile sediment samples. Bags made from dialysis tubing were filled with either course sand sediment (28.8% fine) or organic, silty clay sediment (77.2% fine) and placed at the sediment-water interface. Bags re...

the main goal of this paper is the study of the generalized hyers-ulam stability of the following functionalequation f (2x  y)  f (2x  y)  (n 1)(n  2)(n  3) f ( y)  2n2 f (x  y)  f (x  y)  6 f (x) where n  1,2,3,4 , in non–archimedean spaces, by using direct and fixed point methods.

‎The purpose of this paper is to solve two types of Lyapunov equations and quadratic matrix equations by using the spectral representation‎. ‎We focus on solving Lyapunov equations $AX+XA^*=C$ and $AX+XA^{T}=-bb^{T}$ for $A‎, ‎X in mathbb{C}^{n times n}$ and $b in mathbb{C} ^{n times s}$ with $s < n$‎, ‎which $X$ is unknown matrix‎. ‎Also‎, ‎we suggest the new method for solving quadratic matri...