We used near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) to evaluate cerebral blood oxygenation changes in subjects undergoing cesarean section under spinal anesthesia (SP) with hyperbaric bupivacaine (group H, 27 subjects) or isobaric bupivacaine (group I, 15 subjects). In group H, total-Hb, oxy-Hb, and mean blood pressure (MBP) within 20 min after SP were significantly lower than the baseline values. In con...

BACKGROUND Little evidence exists regarding the optimal concentration of oxygen to use in the treatment of term neonates with spontaneous pneumothorax (SP). The practice of using high oxygen concentrations to promote "nitrogen washout" still exists at many centers. The aim of this study was to identify the time to clinical resolution of SP in term neonates treated with high oxygen concentration...

This is the third report detailing Ptiliidae collected from forest leaf litter by the Moravian Museum (Brno, Czech Republic) expeditions to Madagascar 2010-2013. After completion of the first draft, which identified 16 new species, more Madagsacan Acrotrichis, collected at earlier dates, were found in the Natural History Museum in London (BMNH). These included 17 unpublished new species determi...

The Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) aquaculture industry is growing, and with it, the need to source optimise sustainable ingredients for aquafeeds. Black soldier fly (BSF) larvae (Hermetia illucens) have received increasing research attention since they are a good of protein that can efficiently convert wide range low-value organic material into valuable resources. This study investigated impact...

Pulmonary surfactant protein A (SP-A) is an oligomeric glycoprotein that binds dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine (DPPC). Interactions of rat SP-A and recombinant SP-As with pure and binary monolayers of DPPC and cholesterol were studied using a rhomboid surface balance at 37 degrees C. A marked inflection at equilibrium surface tension (23 mN/m) in surface tension-area isotherm of a pure DPPC film...

The genus Aspicera Dahlbom (Hymenoptera: Cynipoidea: Figitidae: Aspicerinae) is revised herein. Aspicera has a Holarctic distribution, being here cited for the first time from the following countries: Canada, Cyprus, Greece, India (northeastern corner, which is part of the Himalayan southeastern range and is considered as belonging to the Palaearctic), Japan, Jordan, Mexico, Montenegro, and Tur...

The purpose of this study is to examine the potential use of anaerobic baffled reactor (ABR) followed by Bio-rack wetland planted with Phragmites sp. and Typha sp. for treating domestic wastewater generated by small communities (751 mg COD/L, 500 SCOD mg/L, 348 mg BOD5/L). Two parallel laboratory-scale models showed that the process planted with Phragmites sp. and Typha sp. are capable of remov...

D. J. García,1 E. Miranda,1 K. Hallberg,2 and M. J. Rozenberg3,4 1Instituto de Física Gleb Wataghin, Unicamp, CEP 13083-970 Campinas, SP, Brazil 2Instituto Balseiro and Centro Atómico Bariloche, CNEA, (8400) San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina 3Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, CNRS-UMR8502, Université de Paris-Sud, Orsay 91405, France 4Departamento de Física, FCEN, Universidad de Buenos Aire...

ABSTRACT In the Mediterranean Basin, Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. ciceris and the root-knot nematode Meloidogyne artiellia coinfect chickpea. The influence of root infection (after inoculation with 20 nematode eggs and second-stage juveniles per gram of soil) by two M. artiellia populations, from Italy and Syria, on the reaction of chickpea lines and cultivars with partial resistance to Fusarium w...

Based on a study of 1,100 specimens of the genus Agra (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Lebiini: Agrina) from Costa Rica, twenty-nine new species were discovered and are here validated and described: A. catie, n. sp. (type locality: Limon, Tortuguero National Park, Estacion Cuatro Esquinas, sea level, LN 280000,590500); A. catbellae, n. sp. (type locality: Cartago, Turrialba, 600m, 09°53'N 083°38'W); A. ...