The objectives of this study were to determine the effects of fire retardant chemical (Phos-Chek G75-F*) and fire suppressant foam (Silv-Ex) application, alone and in combination with fire, on Great Basin shrub steppe vegetation. We measured growth, resprouting, flowering, and incidence of galling insects on Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus and Artemisia tridentata. These characteristics were not af...

Objective: To determine the comparison between capillary glucose and venous plasma in type II diabetic patients. Study Design: Cross Sectional Observational study. Setting: Al–Tibri Medical College Hospital Karachi. Period: 1st January 2020 to 30th April 2020. Material & Methods: A total of 86 patients from out-patient department with non-probability consecutive sampling were selected. Subj...

The administration of radioprotective compounds is one approach to preventing radiation damage in non-cancerous tissues. Therefore, radioprotective compounds are crucial in clinical radiotherapy. Selenium is a radioprotective compound that has been used in previous clinical studies of radiotherapy. However, evidence regarding the effectiveness of selenium in radiotherapy and the mechanisms unde...

Adenomatoid odontogenic tumor (AOT) is an uncommon tumor of odontogenic origin, constituting only 3% of all odontogenic tumors. AOT is characterized histologically by the formation of duct-like structures with amyloid-like deposits. An 18-year-old male presented with right chek swelling. CT scan revealed well-defined expansile heterogeneous mass with central hypodensity. Patient underwent excis...

Between April and December 1994, 23 blood cultures from human immunodeficiency virus-infected patients grew rapidly growing mycobacteria suspected to be Mycobacterium chelonae at a hospital in New Jersey. The isolates were later identified as M. abscessus. Several bacterial species, including M. abscessus, were cultured from an opened multidose supplement vial (BBL Septi-Chek AFB Supplement) th...

The Addi-Chek (filtration; Millipore Corp., Bedford, Mass.) and BACTEC (radiometric detection of growth in culture media; Johnston Laboratories, Inc., Towson, Md.) systems were compared with the 10-ml culture (centrifugation) method for the recovery of microorganisms from peritoneal dialysate collected from patients with clinical evidence of peritonitis and containing greater than or equal to 2...

We prove that the count of Maslov index 2 $J$-holomorphic discs passing through a generic point real Lagrangian submanifold in closed spherically monotone symplectic manifold must be even. As corollary, we exhibit genuine phenomenon terms involutions, namely Chekanov torus $\mathbb{T}_{\text{Chek}}$ $S^2\times S^2$, which is not Hamiltonian isotopic to Clifford $\mathbb{T}_{\text{Clif}}$, can s...

AN ACCU-CHEK PERFORMA DIABETIC biosensor was examined for use as a quantification method for glucose and sucrose within a sugarcane juice medium. The motivation for this study was the need for a fast, inexpensive and reliable primary method for sucrose determination. This proof of concept study obtained promising results, encouraging further development of this project. Calibration curves were ...