Swimming microalgae show various taxes, such as phototaxis and gravitaxis, which sometimes result in the formation of a cell-rich layer or a patch in a suspension. Despite intensive studies on the effects of shear flow and turbulence on the inhomogeneous distribution of microalgae, the effect of a bubble plume has remained unclear. In this study, we used Chlamydomonas as model microalgae, and i...

Mosquitoes transmit serious human diseases, causing millions of deaths every year. Use of synthetic insecticides to control vector mosquitoes has caused physiological resistance and adverse environmental effects in addition to high operational cost. Insecticides of botanical origin may serve as suitable alternative biocontrol techniques in the future. The present investigations were made to eva...

An ELISA for urine microalbumin using microtiter plates has been developed. The assay uses polyclonal anti-human albumin antibody for coating the microtiter plates and the same antibody conjugated with horseradish peroxidase for detection. The assay sensitivity is 1.6 μg/ml. Results by this in-house ELISA show good correlation (r = 0.99) with those obtained by a commercial assay using the Behri...

We report on data from a revelatory qualitative case study of a failed attempt to form an international joint venture (IJV) agreement. We analyze issues related to distributive, procedural, interpersonal, and informational fairness and the roles of their occurrence in the course of the formation stage of an IJV. We find that perceptions of fairness types shape the partners’ decision making logi...

9 INTRODUCTION 10 Antillean manatees in Belize 12 Belize Habitat 13 Objectives 14 Hypotheses 14 Background Review 15 MATERIALS AND METHODS 18 Subjects 18 Collection 19 Microhistological Analysis 20 Data Analysis 21 RESULTS 22 Overall Percent Frequency of Manatee Diet 23 Percent Frequency by Location 25 Percent Frequency by Sex 27 Percent Frequency by Size Classification 29 Percent Frequency by ...

Evidence is growing for the long-term effects of environmental factors during early-life on later disease susceptibility. It is believed that epigenetic mechanisms (changes in gene function not mediated by DNA sequence alteration), particularly DNA methylation, play a role in these processes. This paper reviews the current state of knowledge of the involvement of C1 metabolism and methyl donors...

Ischemia-reperfusion injury, a common complication during liver surgery where steatotic livers are more prone to the injury, may become more prevalent in the growing obese population. This study characterizes liver morphology toward understanding changes in subcellular function in steatotic livers exposed to ischemiareperfusion injury through quantitative description of fluorescein distribution...