The application of new probiotics is a good strategy in the biological control of infectious diseases in aquaculture. Approximately 100 marine actinobacteria isolates were obtained from 10 sediment samples of shrimp farms. Heat treatment of sediment samples resulted in a selective reduction of the non actinobacterial heterotrophic microflora. Starch nitrate agar medium exhibited more effic...

This paper studies racial/ethnic disparities in awareness of chronic diseases using biomarker data from the 2006 HRS. We estimate a 3-step sequential probit model which accounts for selection into: (1) participating in biomarker collection; (2) having illness (hypertension or diabetes); (3) being aware of illness. Contrary to studies reporting that African-Americans are more aware of having hyp...

Here we present the physics and device characteristics of high performance strain-compensated MOCVD-grown 1200 nm InGaAs and 1300–1400 nm InGaAsN quantum well (QW) lasers. Utilizing the GaAsP barriers surrounding the highly strained InGaAsN QW active regions, high performance QW lasers have been realized from 1170 nm up to 1400 nm wavelength regions. The design of the InGaAsN QW active region u...

Automated systems based on wearable sensors for livestock monitoring are becoming increasingly popular. Specifically, wireless in-body could yield relevant data, such as ruminal temperature. The collection of data requires an accurate characterization the in-to-out body channel between sensor and gateway. aim this study is to experimentally characterize in-to-out-body propagation loss cows hors...