In an effort to document the antibacterial properties of plants commonly used by the people of Puerto Rico, we studied the effects of 172 plant species, utilizing the disc diffusion method, against Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus. The methanolic extracts of 14 species showed antibacterial activities during this preliminary screen. These positive plant extracts were tested successivel...

Many woody crop plants such as grapevine are traditionally grown with scion varieties grafted onto rootstocks. The selection of an appropriate rootstock provides a powerful tool to manage the growth and fruiting of the scion (Jones, 2012). In the grapevine propagation, the use of rootstocks is not a new matter. The evidence of the use of rootstocks can be found out even in works written by the ...

Modeling the nanoparticle formation mechanism in water-in-oil microemulsion, a self-assembled colloidal template, has been addressed in this paper by two formalisms: the deterministic population balance equation (PBE) model and stochastic Monte Carlo (MC) simulation. These are based on time-scale analysis of elementary events consisting of reactant mass transport, solid solubilization, reaction...

the production of a stable solution by such means is. The apparatus introduced by Captain Hodgkinson and Mr. Hutchinson can be installed in any hospital or institution supplied with electric current ; and with supplies of salt and lime from the bazaar, unlimited supplies of E. C. can be manufactured at a cost of approximately four annas per gallon. Once prepared the solution contains about 2.5 ...

the effedts of magnefia in promoting the folubility of the Peruvian bark, I flatter myfelf, Sir, from your known candour, and defire to promote every kind of ufeful medical inquiry, that you will readily permit me, through the channel of the fame valuable work, to Jay before the public a few remarks on fome of Dr. Skeete's deductions, which, to me, feem to be not well founded.?As the experiment...

Compost product safety and quality assurance are required to meet the needs of the horticultural, agricultural, and silvicultural user markets. At present, there exist no industry-wide sampling and testing protocols for compost products, thus limiting the production sector. The objective of this research was to test three methods for determining compost maturity. The study followed the composti...

In a series of papers and lectures, Sydney Shoemaker has developed a sophisticated Russellian theory of phenomenal content (1994, 2000, 2001, 2003). It has as its central motivation two considerations. One is the possibility of spectrum-inversion without illusion. The other is the transparency of experience. Consider the possibility of spectrum inversion. It might be that the color experience J...

Objective: To carry out taxonomic studies that determine which formicine species are associated with the cultivation of Mexican lime.
 Design/Methodology/Approach: The study was conducted in eight municipalities and 59 localities Apatzingán Valley region, Michoacán, Mexico, where lime (Citrus aurantiifolia Swingle) is produced. A randomized complete blocks design used experiment, each muni...