Silkworm rearing is an applied science based on theory of anatomical physiology of silkworm and silk worm diseases. With an ultimate aim of producing more and better quantity and quality of silk (a natural protein fiber) and to expand the areas for its production country wise regions, many strains have been introduced date to date. A new strain of silkworm (K2) was evaluated to include it in th...

The chemical composition and microbial burden of freshwater prawn was determined at different storage temperatures (00C, 4±10C, 28±20C) for 5 days using standard microbiological techniques. Microbial isolates found in samples include: Staphylococcus aureus, Bacillus spp., Proteus mirabilis, Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Salmonella spp. Aspergillus flavus. proximate analysis carbohyd...

A diet containing adequate amounts of protein rapidly suppresses myofibrillar protein degradation after refeeding in young rats and mice. However, it is unclear whether this suppression is seen in adult animals. This study was undertaken to compare dietary protein-induced suppression of myofibrillar protein degradation in young and adult mice. Reductions in rates of myofibrillar protein degrada...

A newly developed commercial serological test (Iatron Laboratories, Inc., Tokyo, Japan) for the rapid identification of medically important species of Candida was evaluated against the API 20C (Analytab Products, Plainview, N.Y.) and the standard Wickerham assimilation and fermentation procedures. Our results indicated that the Iatron and the API 20C methods are 95% accurate since both permitte...

The modified API 20C system (Analytab Products, Inc.) containing 19 carbohydrate assimilation tests was used to identify stock cultures of clinical isolates and routine clinical isolates from the Mayo Clinic mycology laboratory. The system provided correct identifications for 96% of the 505 organisms tested. The API 20C represents a commercial system useful for the identification of yeasts from...

This paper presents an ultra low power clock source using a 1μW temperature compensated on-chip digitally controlled oscillator (OscCMP) and a 100nW uncompensated oscillator (OscUCMP) with respective temperature stabilities of 5ppm/C and 1.67%/C. A fast locking circuit re-locks OscUCMP to OscCMP often enough to achieve a high effective temperature stability. Measurements of a 130nm CMOS chip sh...

The Baylis-Hillman reactions of various aryl aldehydes with methyl vinyl ketone at temperatures below -20C using Lewis acids such as titanium (IV) chloride, boron (III) chloride or zirconium (IV) chloride in the presence of a catalytic amount of selected amines used as a Lewis bases afford the chlorinated compounds 1 as the major product in very high yields. Acrylonitrile can also undergo the s...

In the present study we determined the efficacy of the measurement of fecal cortisol levels in fifteen female adult free-ranging elephants of three different protected wildlife regions of Tamilnadu State, India during dry seasons (FebruaryJune, 2010) were examined. Fresh dung samples were collected in a sterile container with 80% methanol solution and brought to the laboratory and the samples w...