In this paper, data from a nationally representative survey of elderly Thais living in private households are analyzed. The analysis focuses on situations of the 756 elderly who do not coreside with an adult child. Only a minority of those elderly who do not coreside with an adult child were childless. The majority have at least one noncoresident child with whom they could potentially live. Dai...

Optical clarity of larvae makes the zebrafish ideal for real-time analyses of vertebrate organ function through the use of fluorescent reporters of enzymatic activities. A key function of digestive organs is to couple the generation of enzymes with mechanical processes that enable nutrient availability and absorption. However, it has been extremely difficult, and in many cases not possible, to ...

abstract a careful look at the greatest poets ashsha’bi and lahouri reveals that they are among the greatest eastern poets that focused on themselves and cheered their countrymen to know themselves; because it is the introduction to know god that leads to the freedom from the colonization and all the idols; because if man knows himself and god, will come near god and the good world and he would...

this study investigated the effects of the dietary supplementation of zizyphus mauritianaleaf meal (zlm) on the performance of yankasa lambs. twenty five lambs aged between 6 and 8 months were randomly divided into five groups of five animals each in a completely randomized design to receive supplementary diets containing 0, 10, 20, 30 and 40% zlm as replacement for cotton seed cake in concentr...

The effects of infective Vibrio alginolyticus and its extracellular product (ECP) on host fish function are not well understood. In this study a partial biochemical characterization of the ECP from an infective strain of V. alginolyticus isolated from diseased silver sea bream Sparus sarba was achieved and the effects of live V. alginolyticus and ECP on hepatic heat shock protein (hsp) expressi...