We tested the response of ion-selective sodium and potassium electrodes that are a part of the new multi-channel chemical analyzers, Astra 8 and Astra 4 (Beckman). For this we used plain and albumin-containing aqueous solutions of known Na+ and K+ concentrations, varied inversely so we could assess how the concentration of each electrolyte would affect the response of the other electrode. The s...

The Asian seabass is an important marine food fish that has been cultured for several decades in Asia Pacific. However, the lack of a high quality reference genome has hampered efforts to improve its selective breeding. A 3D BAC pool set generated in this study was screened using 22 SSR markers located on linkage group 2 which contains a growth-related QTL region. Seventy-two clones correspondi...

Postural and kinematic aspects of running may have evolved to support high runner (HR) mice to run approximately threefold farther than control mice. Mice from four replicate HR lines selectively bred for high levels of voluntary wheel running show many differences in locomotor behavior and morphology as compared with four nonselected control (C) lines. We hypothesized that HR mice would show s...

Ultrasonic vocalizations (USVs) are emitted by rodents and can signal either negative or positive affective states in social and nonsocial contexts. Our recent work has utilized selective breeding based upon the emission of 50 kHz USVs in response to standard cross species hand play-namely experimenters 'tickling' rats. Previous work has shown that high-tickle responsive animals (i.e., rats emi...

A novel fully spray coating-based method of the preparation of all-solid-state ion-selective electrodes of simplified construction is proposed. This method is an alternative for screen-printed electrodes used sometimes in potentiometric applications. The benefits of the herein-proposed approach include fully automatic sensor preparation and minimized use of chemicals allowing for the production...

Introduction A number of works on cationic sensors have been reported in literatures [1] but less attention has been given towards the development of anionic sensors though there is a need for analysis of varieties of anions in different environmental, biomedical, industrial as well as chemical samples[2-3]. Anion sensors are simple, low cost, convenient, portable and provide quick response tow...

Selective removal of ions from water via capacitive deionization (CDI) is relevant for environmental and industrial applications like purification, softening, resource recovery. Prussian blue analogs (PBAs) are proposed as an electrode material selectively removing cations water, based on their size. So far, PBAs used in CDI selective toward monovalent ions. Here, vanadium hexacyanoferrate (VHC...

BACKGROUND The pig is an economically important food source, amounting to approximately 40% of all meat consumed worldwide. Pigs also serve as an important model organism because of their similarity to humans at the anatomical, physiological and genetic level, making them very useful for studying a variety of human diseases. A pig strain of particular interest is the miniature pig, specifically...

Trypanosomosis is one of the major constraints on animal production in areas of Africa which have the greatest potential for significant increases in domestic livestock populations and livestock productivity. While the eradication of trypanosomosis from the entire continent is an unrealistic goal, considerable effort has been invested in the control of this disease through the use of trypanocid...

INTRODUCTION Numerical optimization-based RF pulse design methods are widely used to incorporate system non-idealities and non-linearities such as field inhomogeneities, coil sensitivities, and signal decay [1-3]. These approaches often lead to RF pulses with high peak RF magnitude exceeding the hardware or safety limits and the variablerate selective excitation (VERSE) principle can be utilize...