Young people in Kuwait constitute both the highest concentration of Internet users (estimated to be approximately 63% of all Internet users in Kuwait)and the largest sector of Kuwaiti society. Moreover, as argued in this article, young people's Internet practices are likely to stimulate the most significant changes in Kuwaiti society. This article scrutinizes a handful of descriptions by young ...

While there are some who would argue that the origin of Lolita fashion can be traced back to fiction (namely, the 1955 novel, Lolita, which was adapted to film in 1962 and again in 1997) and has relevance to sexual attractiveness with reference to the young, this popular style developed more recently into a subcultural identity in Japan as a distinctive style in its own right. This article rega...

Abstract Background Metarhizium species are considered one of the most outstanding powerful biological control agents that have been commercialized as biopesticides against various agricultural pests. Fungal stability with successive in vitro cultivation is a desirable trait for large-scale production fungal biopesticide. Main body The new Egyptian strain anisopliae AUMC 3262 exhibited auspicio...

Fluorescence under ultra-violet irradiation has been described by one of us as a criterion for the detection of Ps. pyocyanea on culture plates (Lowbury, 1951). In mixed cultures we have recently found colonies showing typical fluorescence which proved on subculture to be Bact. coli. The colonies of the subculture did not fluoresce. It was thought that colonies of these bacteria in the original...

The nasopharynx of known meningococcal carriers without signs of acute meningococcal disease as well as cerebrospinal fluid from patients with acute meningococcal disease were cultured on Thayer-Martin agar. Pili were observed in negatively stained preparations of over 80% cells from all primary cultures of both nasopharnyx and cerebrospinal fluids. Although pili were abundant on cells from al...