More than 10 years after registration of the first Bt maize cultivar in Europe, there still exists a remarkable lack of data on effects on Lepidoptera which would be necessary for a complete and comprehensive environmental risk assessment. So far only very few European butterfly species have been tested in this aspect. In our study the effect of transgenic Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) maize poll...

By D. L. DUNGwORTH, NI. GOLDMAN, J. W. SWITZER AND D. H. MCKELVIE T HE TERM “MYELOPROLIFERATIVE DISORDER” was introduced by 2 to embrace a complex array of diseases characterized by irreversible proliferation of one to several of the bone marrow cell lines, and includes such conditions as granulocytic leukemia, myelofibrosis with myeloid metaplasia, polycythemia vera and erythremic myelosis. Th...

This study aimed to investigate the adsorption of three commercial reactive dyes using extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) extracted from waste sludge a beer wastewater treatment plant in Hanoi, Vietnam. EPS was by HCHO-NaOH method and characterized measuring kaolin flocculation activity, dry weight, chemical composition, functional groups. Adsorption on conducted Jartest at different pH v...

The torsion of both femora was evaluated in 110 patients who had been treated by intramedullary nailing for unilateral femoral shaft fractures. The anteversion (AV) angle was measured by ultrasound, using a tilted-transducer technique. True torsional deformity, defined as an AV difference of 15#{176} or more between sides was found in 21 patients, but only eight had complaints related to the de...