We determine the evolution of the galaxy luminosity function (LF) as a function of spectral type using the Autofib redshift survey, a compendium of over 1700 galaxy redshifts in various magnitude-limited samples spanning bJ=11.5–24.0. To carry out this analysis we have developed a cross-correlation technique which classifies faint galaxy spectra into one of six types based on local galaxy templ...

Staphylococci can cause many forms of infection. (1) S aureus causes superficial skin lesions (boils, styes) and localized abscesses in other sites. (2) S aureus causes deepseated infections, such as osteomyelitis and endocarditis and more serious skin infections (furunculosis). (3) S aureus is a major cause of hospital acquired (nosocomial) infection of surgical wounds and, with S epidermidis,...

AIM OF THE STUDY This study aims to evaluate the prevalence and to make a comparison between the ocular morbidity pattern in school going children of urban and rural areas of West Uttar Pradesh. MATERIALS AND METHODS A school-based cross-sectional study design was adopted to examine children aged 5-15 years in randomly selected urban and rural schools of West Uttar Pradesh from June 2012 to A...

The child is an organism still in development [1]. It follows that, the fewer pharmaceuticals taken throughout the period of growth, the more harmonious the development of the child’s organs and immune system will be [2,3]. Infectious or inflammatory diseases that arise on the eyelid have a variable incidence in childhood, depending on the overall level of health and the lifestyle of the family...

BACKGROUND Infestation by Demodex spp. in the palpebral edge follicles in humans is common. However, these mites are not routinely diagnosed in patients with or without ocular pathologies in Chile and their relevance is unclear. One of the eye diseases most related to infestation by Demodex spp. is blepharitis, a chronic inflammation of the eyelid margin with intermittent exacerbations, which i...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Carotid intima-media thickness is a marker for subclinical atherosclerosis that predicts subsequent clinical cardiovascular events. The aim of this study was to identify chromosomal loci with linkage or association to common carotid intima-media thickness. METHODS Nuclear families were recruited using the single parental proband sib-pair design. Genotype data were avail...

The effects of various nutrient-limiting conditions on expression of the sty operon in Pseudomonas putida CA-3 were investigated. It was observed that limiting concentrations of the carbon source phenylacetic acid, resulted in high levels of phenylacetyl coenzyme A (CoA) ligase activity, this was accompanied also by upper pathway styrene monooxygenase enzyme activity. The introduction of inorga...

Perchlorate (ClO(4)(-)) is a persistent contaminant found in drinking groundwater sources in the United States. Ion exchange (IX) with selective and disposable resins based on cross-linked styrene divinylbenzene (STY-DVB) beads is currently the most commonly utilized process for removing low concentrations of ClO(4)(-) (10-100 ppb) from contaminated drinking water sources. However, due to the l...

Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells are currently the workhorse of the biopharmaceutical industry. However, yeasts such as Pichia pastoris are about to enter this field. To compare their capability for recombinant protein secretion, P. pastoris strains and CHO cell lines producing human serum albumin (HSA) and the 3D6 single chain Fv-Fc anti-HIV-1 antibody (3D6scFv-Fc) were cultivated in comparab...

Objective To compare the value of different pre-delivery maternal indices for predicting birth­ weight, and to examine the usefulness of a single pre-delivery symphysis-fundal height measurement for the detection of low birthweight and twin pregnancy or macrosomia. Design Symphysis-fundal height measurements were gathered from 1509 women who had both a singleton delivery and available data of p...