Abstract Larval cod require live prey as food, and concentration (PC) feeding frequency (FF) often affect their growth survival. Apart from this, water exchange rates/water flow (WER/WF) current (WC) also the resident time in tank larval/early juvenile behaviour, respectively. High is known to induce stress finfish larvae, this response believed be dependent on larval developmental stage. Thus,...

Between 1979 and 1982 we reviewed 1000 consecutive admissions to the neonatal intensive care unit of this hospital. Sixty five infants had positive blood cultures. Mortality was 70% among 17 infants who had septicaemia in the first 48 hours of life and for whom appropriate treatment may have been too late because of difficulties of early diagnosis. In the remaining 48 infants mortality was 12%,...

OBJECTIVE To verify the assessment of the patient safety culture according to the function and length of experience of the nursing and medical teams at Neonatal Intensive Care Units. METHOD Quantitative survey undertaken at four Neonatal Intensive Care Units in Florianópolis, Brazil. The sample totaled 141 subjects. The data were collected between February and April 2013 through the applicati...

Rapid identification of infection has a major impact on the clinical course, management, and outcome of critically ill intensive care unit (ICU) patients. We compared the results of PCR and procalcitonin with blood culture for ICU patients suspected of having septicemia. Ninety patients (60 patients meeting the criteria for sepsis and 30 patients not meeting the criteria for sepsis) were evalua...

An experiment was conducted at the Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand, to investigate effects of fertilization rates and salinity levels on the growth of sex-reversed Thai red tilapia (Oreochromis sp.). The experiment was designed to test two fertilization rates (28 kg nitrogen and 7 kg phosphorus ha-1 wk-1, N:P = 4:1; and 14 kg N and 7 kg P ha-1 wk-1, N:P = 2:1) and three salinity levels ...

Address correspondence to: L.A. Miranda. Laboratorio de Ictiofisiología y Acuicultura. Instituto de Investigaciones Biotecnológicas Insituto Tecnológico de Chascomús (IIBINTECH), Chascomús (B7130IWA), Provincia de Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA. E-mail: [email protected] Received on April 1, 2005. Accepted on June 1, 2005. The pejerrey Odontesthes bonariensis is an atherinid fish native of the in...