The disease attacks the plant in an early stage of growth, infecting the young tillers at ground level (Plate 1, B). Infected plants remain small in size and are characterized by the presence of abundant dry leaves and leaf sheaths. The infected stool displays symptoms of starvation and later it may collapse completely. During the initial stage of infection, leaf sheaths on the lower part of th...

BACKGROUND There is an increase in number of patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) in Uganda's health facilities looking for different options of preparing matooke (bananas), their staple food. OBJECTIVE To establish and evaluate an effective method of removing potassium from bananas (matooke). METHODS Bananas were sampled from 5 markets in Kampala, Uganda. Deionized water was used to ...

BACKGROUND Use of alkaline peroxide denture cleanser with different temperature of water could cause a change in surface hardness of the acrylic denture and also has a bleaching effect. The purpose of the study was to determine the effect of increased water content during thermal cycling of hot water-treated acrylic on the surface hardness of acrylic denture base when compared to warm water tre...

We have used cross-sectional scanning tunneling microscopy ~STM! to perform nanometer-scale characterization of compositional structure and interfacial properties within GaAs12xSbx /GaAs double-quantum well structures. An algorithm has been devised based on analysis of strain effects in STM data to obtain detailed, quantitative compositional profiles within alloy layers. Using this and other an...