Translucent culture media are essential for the determination of gonococcal colony types. In this study two hemoglobin-free, translucent culture media were compared with Thayer-Martin (TM) medium for the primary isolation of Neisseria gonorrhoeae from male urethral specimens. The antibiotic-free translucent medium (GCB) and the translucent medium containing vancomycin, colistin, and nystatin (V...

Analysis of non-laminar flows in coarse alluvial beds has a wide range of applications in various civil engineering, oil and gas, and geology problems. Darcy equation is not valid to analyze transient and turbulent flows, so non-linear equations should be applied. Non-linear equations are classified into power and binomial equations. Binomial equation is more accurate in a wide range of velocit...

erythromycin production is clearly enhanced by the addition of vegetable oils. however,whether this positive effect is brought about by the triglyceride or non-triglyceride fraction, isnot clear. the non-triglyceride portions of the oils accumulate in the waste during the refiningprocess leaving mainly triglycerides in the refined oil. in this research, sub-fractions of soybeanoil, including le...

Myoblast cell lines are grown and differentiated readily in cell culture. Two cell lines typically used for investigating the growth and differentiation of muscle are the mouse cell line C2C12 and the rat cell line L6. The differentiation of these cells in vitro requires a switch from a serum-rich medium to a less rich medium after the cells have reached confluence. Since the components present...

Lebanon has been considered a sample of Europe in the Middle East, and it is surprising to have an Islamic resistance against Israel in this small modern country. The Islamic Resistance was, at the beginning, portrayed as having a very different ideology from that of the neighboring countries of the Middle East. This Resistance was established on the basis of being a resistance model for the fr...

In this paper, we look at the problem of robust detection of a very productive class of Asian style emoticons, known as facemarks or kaomoji. We demonstrate the frequency and productivity of these sequences in social media such as Twitter. Previous approaches to detection and analysis of kaomoji have placed limits on the range of phenomena that could be detected with their method, and have look...

In this article the emergent paradigm of media ecologies is distinguished from the ‘actually existing’ media ecology emerging out of the work of McLuhan, Postman and the media ecology association. The appearance of Fuller’s book was understandably unsettling for members of the latter and certainly marks at least a profound rupture in the media ecological paradigm if not a total break. The artic...

OBJECTIVE We estimated the cost effectiveness of the Oregon tobacco quitline's "free patch initiative" compared to the pre-initiative programme. METHODS Using quitline utilisation and cost data from the state, intervention providers and patients, we estimated annual programme use and costs for media promotions and intervention services. We also estimated annual quitline registration calls and...

Background The fetal bovine serum (FBS) is a component of higher value added to the medium, which may cause difficulty in the process of recovery and purification of bioproduct. Considering all these reasons, it is essential to develop a simple cell adaptation process for the culture of cells in serum-free, animal component-free, or protein-free medium conditions [1,2]. The adaptation of cellul...

Excitotoxicity results in a significant increase in Ca2+ influx; essentially from open N-Methyl-D-aspartate receptors (NMDARs) channels that cause a secondary rise in the intracellular Ca2+ concentration. It is correlated with neuronal death induced by Ca2+ overload. Dysfunction of NMDARs is associated with excitotoxic neuronal death in neurodegenerative disorders. In this study, the effects of...