Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) is the method of choice in patients requiring long-term enteral tube feeding. In patients with intrathecal baclofen infusion therapy (IBT) pump implantation, infection via the skin and soft tissue may be an issue of concern. The introducer technique for gastrostomy tube insertion may be useful in reducing the risk of peristomal infection. Although the p...

Background Ralstonia eutropha is bacterium known to naturally produce polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB) as carbon storage during nutrient starvation. Previously studies [1] showed that it is possible through the incorporation of an engineered biosynthetic pathway, to redirect carbon flux from PHB to the production of Isobutanol (IBT), a biofuel largely studied to replace the current fossil fuels in exi...

Iodometric Back Titration (IBT) and Spectrophotometric (SPM) determination are two commonly used methods for the determination of hydrogen sulfide (H2S) concentration in sea water. These two methods were applied in parallel for analysis of Black Sea anoxic waters and artificial solutions containing different H2S concentrations. The results of the SPM and IBT methods are in agreement when the H2...

Many populations are composed of a mixture of individuals that reproduce at different times, and these times are often heritable. Under these conditions, gene flow should be limited between early and late reproducers, even within populations having a unimodal temporal distribution of reproductive activity. This temporal restriction on gene flow might be called "isolation by time" (IBT) to ackno...

In this research report, we describe a study to map the scores of TOEFL® Essentials™ test Canadian Language Benchmarks (CLB). The TOEFL Essentials is four-skills assessment foundational English language skills and communication abilities in academic general (daily life) contexts. At time writing was most recent addition Family Assessments. are intended provide programs other users with reliable...

Regional water supply systems undergo surplus and deficit conditions due to differences in inflow characteristics as well as due to their seasonal demand patterns. This study proposes a framework for regional water management by proposing an interbasin transfer (IBT) model that uses climate-informationbased inflow forecast for minimizing the deviations from the end-of-season target storage acro...

Island Biogeography Theory (IBT; MacArthur and Wilson 1963, 1967) has profoundly infl uenced the study of biogeography, ecol ogy, and even evolution (Janzen 1968, Losos 1996, Heaney 2000), and has also had an enormous impact on conservation biology. The theory has inspired much thinking about the importance of reserve size and connectivity in the maintenance of species diversity, and stimulated...