This study was conducted to evaluate the effect of different fresh feed supplemented to commercial diet on growth and survival of Oscar fish (Astronauts ocellatus) (initial weight: 1.58-1.70 g) during 60-day period. The husbandry environment consisted of glass aquariums appropriate to growth with a photoperiod cycle of 12 L: 12 D. The water temperature was kept at 28 ±1°C. 360 fries of Oscar (i...

Grapevine trunk diseases (GTDs) are currently considered some of the most important challenges for viticulture, curtailing vineyard longevity and productivity in nearly every raisin, table wine grape production region California worldwide. Pruning wounds provide main entry point fungal pathogens responsible these diseases; enter following precipitation events. The aim this study was to evaluate...

The dried raisin, the crushed soda can, and the collapsed bicycle inner tube exemplify the nonlinear mechanical response of naturally curved elastic surfaces with different intrinsic curvatures to a variety of different external loads. To understand the formation and evolution of these features in a minimal setting, we consider a simple assay: the response of curved surfaces to point indentatio...

Traditionally, raisins have been thought to promote dental caries due to their suspected "stickiness" and sugar content. Current research identifies some evidence contrary to traditional thought, suggesting that raisins may not contribute to dental caries. This article reviews new findings with regards to raisins and the 3 conditions that are thought to contribute to the formation of dental car...

o Stanford undergraduates, John Taylor normally looks and sounds the part of a former member of the President's Council of Economic Advisers and a man with Alan Greenspan's ear. On the stage of Kresge Auditorium, he stands high above the students, his broad shoulders fit precisely into a tailored dark suit. His thick, grayblack hair behaves as if it never met a wisp of wind, and his clear, rich...

background and aims: despite the screening of blood donors, blood transfusion represents an ideal port of entry for blood-borne infection. blood-borne pathogen transmission has been a concern since the earliest days of transfusion. the blood product of platelet (plt) concentrates is still faced with the risk of bacterial and viral contaminations. pathogen inactivation technologies offer a proac...

IN THE MID-1980S, THE PIONEERING work of Mario R. Capecchi, Sir Martin J. Evans, and Oliver Smithies (jointly awarded The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2007) led to the development of gene knockout mice (e.g., Refs. 8 and 13). The use of gene knockout and transgenic mouse models has added essential information to our understanding of renal physiology, including the molecular mechanisms ...