The act of consuming soil (geophagy) has been reported both in man and wildlife. Most previous studies have concentrated more on various type geophagic soilswith less attention termite mounds (TMs), thus limiting our understanding the cause(s) geophagy. This study investigated physico-chemical constituents wildlife TMsincomparison with non-geophagic forest (FS). Composite samples were collected...

Key points Extracellular spikes recorded in the visual cortex (Area 17/18, V1) are commonly classified into either regular-spiking (RS) or fast-spiking (FS). Using multi-electrode arrays positioned cat V1 and a broadband stimulus, we show that there is also distinct class with positive-spiking (PS) waveforms. PS units were associated mainly non-oriented receptive fields while RS FS had orientat...

10.1586/14750708.3.6.699 © 2 Characterization of the factor VIII (FVIII) gene and expression of factor VIII through recombinant technology paved the way for the availability of recombinant factor VIII (rFVIII) for intravenous infusion, a significant breakthrough in the treatment of hemophilia A. Kogenate® FS (rFVIII-FS) is a native, full-length factor VIII molecule, produced from a baby hamster...

During flash sintering (FS) of ceramics, the heat loss by surface radiation is main cause temperature gradient between core and surface, which induces inhomogeneity in microstructure. To solve this problem, judicious designing sample geometry electrodes configuration proposed. Experimental simulation results show that application dogbone shape, forked electrodes, lower cross-section aspect rati...

Abstract It was shown experimentally that for a 65-fs 17-J pulse, the effect of filamentation instability, also known as small-scale self-focusing, is much weaker than predicted by stationary and nonstationary theoretical models high B-integral values. Although this discrepancy has been left unexplained at moment, in practice no signs may allow breakthrough nonlinear pulse post-compression lase...

Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Neonatal Pathology, Puericulture Institute and Neonatal Section, AOU and University of Cagliari, Italy; JPNIM’s Editor-in-Chief Department of Laboratory Medicine, IRCCS University-Hospital San Martino-IST National Institute for Cancer Research, Genoa, Italy Division of Pathology, Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy Department of...