OBJECTIVE To evaluate the efficacy of an adapted Emergency Triage Assessment and Treatment (ETAT) tool at a children's hospital. DESIGN A two-armed descriptive study. SETTING Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa. METHODS Triage data on 1 309 children from October 2007 and July 2009 were analysed. The number of children in each triage category (red (emergency...

Interstrand thiazole orange (TO) dimers in RNA show a yellow colored emission that can be distinguished from the green TO monomer emission by confocal microscopy inside CHO cells.

The combination of thiazole orange (TO) and thiazole red (TR) as an internal pair of fluorescent DNA base surrogates ("DNA traffic lights") allows us to follow at least two consecutive DNA strand displacements in real time through a distinct fluorescence colour change from green to red and vice versa.

Research on digital image processing technology, which began in 1960s, stepped into an active research stage in late 1970s and early 1980s. It was firstly used in industrial and biomedical fields. Although it put into use in agricultural research very late, it has a broad prospect. In order to realize navel orange grading, this paper used Visual C # .NET program to develop navel orange shape an...

We examined the selective consequences of variation in behaviour and endocrine physiology in two female throat-colour morphs of the lizard, Uta stansburiana in the wild. Female morphs differed in home-range distribution patterns and corticosterone levels in relation to the density and frequency of their female neighbours. Levels of plasma corticosterone of yellow-throated females increased with...

Five Iranian native silkworm groups: Baghdad, Khorasan Orange, Guilan Orange, Khorasan Pink, Khorasan Lemon, and 107 and 110 commercial lines (12 families from each breed) were randomly selected and reared during 2003-2005 (five generations in spring and autumn). In each family, 30 male and 30 female cocoons were individually recorded for weight, shell weight and shell ratio. From among the nat...

Using GC-MS and GC-flame ionization detection (FID)/olfactometry, 95 volatile components were detected in orange essence oil, of which 55 were aroma active. In terms of FID peak area the most abundant compounds were: limonene, 94.5%; myrcene, 1%; valencene, 0.8%; linalool, 0.7%, and octanal, decanal, and ethyl butyrate, 0.3% each. One hundred percent of the aroma activity was generated by sligh...

In the present work, the effect of initial pH of methylene blue solution on the kinetics of dye sorption from synthetic aqueous solution by a natural waste material namely: orange peels, was studied. Kinetic data were measured in batch conditions. Methylene blue uptake was time contact and solution initial pH dependent. Maximum dye sorption was found to occur at initial pH 9. Two simplified kin...