Sweet chili pepper (Capsicum chinense Jacq.) is an important part of the local cuisine Puerto Rico where it known as ají dulce. Considering opportunities for vegetable production in Rico, soilless alternatives sweet should be considered. This study evaluated five substrates: (1) PRO-MIX® BX (BX); (2) + Mycorrhizae (BX+Myco); (3) High porosity (HP+Myco); (4) Biofungicide (HP+Myco+Fung); and (5) ...

Reports of increasing antibiotic resistance and sagging drug discovery rates are appearing with increasing frequency, and many warn that we are living on the wrong side of an antibiotic peak—a period in which everfewer new antibiotics are being discovered at ever-increasing costs (1). In response, efforts to discover new antibiotics and other drugs have taken many forms, including looking at fo...

for his catch phrase 'I don't get no respect' , which he used to punctuate monologues throughout an illustrious career. Th e fulcrum of humor on topics such as drinking, sex and marriage, the phrase fi t well the persona of Dangerfi eld. Th is was a man whose appearance dis-respected respect. His eyes bulged, he was nervous and jittery and he constantly tugged at his collar and wiped sweat from...

Background: Dedicated bioenergy crops such as switchgrass (Panicum virgatum L.), miscanthus [Miscanthus x giganteus (Mxg)], indiangrass [Sorghastrum nutans (L.) Nash], and big bluestem (Andropogon gerardii Vitman) can provide cellulosic feedstock for biofuel production while maintaining or improving soil and environmental quality. To better understand bioenergy crop effects on soils, we studied...

have often said that the lupus erythematosus (LE) cell is the most important cell in all of medicine. Th is judgment does not refl ect the cell's putative function in auto-immunity but rather the insights it has provided into the mechanisms of autoimmunity. Discovered fortuitously by Hargraves and colleagues (see Suggested reading below) at the Mayo Clinic, the test to detect this cell is very ...

Three cyphers allegedly authored by Thomas Jefferson Beale in 1822 have been the subject of intensive study for over one hundred years. Generations of cryptanalysts have expended untold man-years, thus far without success, attempting to decode them; vast armies of fortune hunters and treasure seekers have devoted Herculean labors to digging up the rolling hills of Virginia trying to locate the ...

The forced implementation of ICD-10-CM (International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision, Clinical Modification) codes that are specific to the United States, scheduled for implementation October 1, 2015, which is vastly different from ICD-10 (International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision), implemented worldwide, which has 14,400 codes, compared to ICD-10-CM with 144,000 code...

The Japanese economy changed its features in the 1990’s, compared with the 1980’s. It shifted down to an extremely lowered growth trend. Its continuous depression with economic difficulties has gathered international concern among the advanced countries. Among the major causes for such difficulties were clearly the swell of huge bubbles in speculative trading of shares and real estate in the la...

Incidence of green mold of citrus, caused by Penicillium digitatum, was reduced by 80% or more by the immersion of lemons or oranges for 1–4 min in warm (40.6–43.3°C) ‘liquid lime-sulfur’ (LLS) solution that contained 0.75% (wt vol) calcium polysulfide. The incidence of sour rot, caused by Geotrichum citri-aurantii, was reduced 35–70% by this treatment. LLS was similar in effectiveness to other...