The effects of thermochemical pretreatment and continuous thermophilic conditions on the composting of a mixture of rice straw residue and cattle manure were investigated using a laboratory-scale composting reactor. Results indicate that the composting period of rice straw can be shortened to less than 10 days by applying alkali pre-treatment and continuous thermophilic composting conditions. T...

Applying the 'end-state comfort' hypothesis of Rosenbaum et al. [J Exp Psych Learn Mem Cogn 1992;18:1058; Acta Psychol (Amst) 1996;94:59] to tongue motion provides evidence of long-distance subphonemic planning in speech. Speakers' tongue postures may anticipate upcoming speech up to three segments, two syllables, and a morpheme or word boundary later. We used M-mode ultrasound imaging to measu...

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Human Cataractous Lenses T a n w e e r Sarwat , M. A tau r Rahman* , and T. H. Kirmani b Departments of Biochemistry" and Ophthalmology. Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre. Karachi. Pakistan Z. Naturforsch. 43b, 1056-1058 (1988); received February 19. 1988 Human Cataractous Lenses, Nicotinamide Nucleotides Ratio, Senile Cataracts The ratios of reduced and oxidized nicotinamide nucleotides (NADH...

We present multiband photometric observations of three spiral galaxies selected in a sample suited for the study of young stellar groupings and their relationship with the parent galaxy and the galactic environment. Star forming regions have been identified using an objective technique based on a multivariate statistical analysis. Maps of young star groupings are given for each galaxy. The lumi...

We present pulsed laser operation in a Nd-doped, Y3Al5O12-based silica fiber. The fiber was fabricated using the rod-in-tube technique with a Nd:YAG crystal rod as the core material and a silica tube for the cladding material. A spectroscopy study revealed that the core region had become amorphous in the process of fiber drawing. Q-switched pulsed laser operation was realized at a wavelength of...

The cDNA of acetyl xylan esterase 2 (PcAxe2) gene containing a carbohydrate binding module (CBM) sequence from Phanerochaete chrysosporium was cloned and expressed in Pichia pastoris. The recombinant PcAxe2 protein (rPcAxe2) was efficiently produced, reaching a maximum of 1058 U l(-1) after 6 days of cultivation. Molecular mass of the rPcAxe2 on SDS-PAGE was approximately 63 kDa under hyperglyc...

We previously described two plasmids that replicate autonomously in both Neurospora and E. coli (Stohl and Lambowitz, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., U.S.A. 80, 1058-1062, 1983). One plasmid, pALS1, consists of the Neurospora ga-2+ gene (3 kb Hind III-fragment), the mitochondrial plasmid from N. intermedia strain P405-Labelle, and E. coli plasmid pBR325. The other, pALS2, is a putative deletion derivat...

After closed head injury nineteen patients had single photon emission tomography (SPECT) using the lipophilic tracer 99m-Technetium hexamethyl-propylene-amineoxime (HMPAO) to compare the defects shown by CT and MRI. SPECT showed more focal cerebral lesions than either CT or MRI alone or in combination. Most lesions shown by SPECT were not shown by CT or MRI in the corresponding anatomical regio...

This document specifies an extension of the Routing Information Protocol (RIP), as defined in [1,2], to expand the amount of useful information carried in RIP messages and to add a measure of security. This memo obsoletes RFC 1388, which specifies an update to the "Routing Information Protocol" STD 34, RFC 1058. The RIP-2 protocol analysis is documented in RFC 1721 [4]. The RIP-2 applicability ...