A new virus, belonging to the reovirus group, was found in an apparently healthy colony of the brown planthopper, Nilaparvata lugens, and was referred to as the Nilaparvata lugens reovirus (NLRV). The virus was found in the cytoplasm of the insect cells, sometimes associated with tubular structures, which is one of the characteristic features in tissues infected with reoviruses. The virus was p...

Background: The eggs of hens are an essential source protein, a food that meets human needs and provides the body with amino acids, metallic elements vitamins promote its health. research aims to study influence storage period strain interaction between them on components internal external quality traits commercially produced brown white-shell eggs. Methods: A total 180 were randomly collected ...

Digestive capacity often limits food intake rate in animals. Many species can flexibly adjust digestive organ mass, enabling them to increase intake rate in times of increased energy requirement and/or scarcity of high-quality prey. However, some prey species are defended by secondary compounds, thereby forcing a toxin limitation on the forager's intake rate, a constraint that potentially canno...

Because of the vast information on health benefits and urbanization impact changes in eating habits, demand for ready-to-use shelled walnuts as a convenient, healthy, nutritious snack food is increasing all over world. However, nuts sold halves or pieces ‘ready-to-use’ small packages are more susceptible to pellicle darkening rancidity than their in-shell equivalents. Currently, about two-third...

We developed ceramic core-shell materials based on abundant halloysite clay nanotubes with enhanced heavy metal ions loading through Schiff base binding. These clay tubes are formed by rolling alumosilicate sheets and have diameter of c.50 nm, a lumen of 15 nm and length ~1 μm. This allowed for synthesis of metal nanoparticles at the selected position: (1) on the outer surface seeding 3-5 nm me...

Lizards are remarkable amongst amniotes, for they display a unique mosaic of reproduction modes ranging from egg-laying to live-bearing. Within this patchwork, geckoes are believed to represent the only group to ever have produced fully calcified rigid-shelled eggs, contrasting with the ubiquitous parchment shelled-eggs observed in other lineages. However, this hypothesis relies only on observa...

Feeding shelled corn as the primary supplement in cracked dry form or ground high moisture form to grazing cows was studied in an experiment using 32 cows in late lactation. Each of the two forms of corn accounted for 74.7% of the concentrate supplement, which was fed at 9 kg/d (DM). The experiment was 13 wk, during which cows grazed permanent native pasture containing mostly grasses and some c...

Mass loss from massive stars (& 8M⊙) can result in the formation of circumstellar wind blown cavities surrounding the star, bordered by a thin, dense, cold shell. When the star explodes as a core-collapse supernova (SN), the resulting shock wave will interact with this modified medium around the star, rather than the interstellar medium. In this work we first explore the nature of the circumste...

We report on shelled bubbles that can be manipulated with magnetic fields. The magnetic shell consists of self-assembled magnetic nanoparticles. The magnetic susceptibility of the bubbles is proportional to the surface area, chi_{b}=(9+/-3x10;{-6} m)r;{2} where r is the radius. Magnetic bubbles are compressible in moderate acoustic fields. A bubble with a radius of 121 mum oscillates in resonan...

BACKGROUND A novel polymer-shelled contrast agent (CA) with multimodal and target-specific potential was developed recently. To determine its ultrasonic diagnostic features, we evaluated the endocardial border delineation as visualized in a porcine model and the concomitant effect on physiological variables. METHODS Three doses of the novel polymer-shelled CA (1.5 ml, 3 ml, and 5 ml [5 × 10(8...