BACKGROUND Porites astreoides is a ubiquitous species of coral on modern Caribbean reefs that is resistant to increasing temperatures, overfishing, and other anthropogenic impacts that have threatened most other coral species. We assembled and annotated a transcriptome from this coral using Illumina sequences from three different developmental stages collected over several years: free-swimming ...

[Purpose] Intelligent emotion assessment systems have been highly successful in a variety of applications, such as e-learning, psychology, and psycho-physiology. This study aimed to assess five different human emotions (happiness, disgust, fear, sadness, and neutral) using heart rate variability (HRV) signals derived from an electrocardiogram (ECG). [Subjects] Twenty healthy university students...

A prospective case control study was carried out to evaluate the prevalence of HBsAg in 129 thalassemic patients and 113 children as a control group.ELISA was used for serologic investigations. thalassemic  patients were aged 8.5+_3.8 years and children of the control group were aged 7.2+_3.8 years.48.1% of the case group and 36.3% of the control group were female and 51.9% of the case group an...

Five Murrah buffaloes were studied ultrasonographically to record the biometry of the ovarian structures and superovulatory response during superovulation (SOV) following follicle ablation. Transvaginal ultrasound-guided follicle aspiration / ablation (FA) was done at the middle of the oestrous cycle (day 10) on follicle of over 10 mm diameter, using 5.0 MHz convex-array intravaginal transducer...

In recent years, Apolygus lucorum has caused increasing damage to cotton and fruit trees in China. The salivary enzymes secreted by A. lucorum when sucking on host plants induce a series of biochemical reactions in plants, and the pre-oral digestion benefits the bug feeding. In this study, the food intake of A. lucorum from 1st instar nymphs to adults was measured, and the corresponding salivar...

Dengue vaccine development has been one of the strategies to reduce dengue incidence in the world alongside with other horizontal interventions such as vector control and the transgenic mosquito programmes. The objective of this paper is to evaluate the safety, reactogenicity and immunogenicity of dengue vaccine clinical trials for the last ten years systematically through a descriptive review....

BACKGROUND Computed tomography (CT) has been used for non-invasive quantitative assessment of airway dimensions, potentially showing airway remodeling, in asthma. However, most studies have examined either only one airway or only airways in anatomically unidentified cross-sections. Using software capable of precisely identifying the generation of airways and measuring airway dimensions perpendi...