Introduction: Hajj is an annual mass gathering of over 3.5 million pilgrims congregating from 200 countries in the desert climate of Saudi Arabia. Mass gathering medicine at Hajj is challenged by issues of healthcare accessibility, infection control, on-site treatment, referral, evacuation, and response to disasters and public health emergencies. The Indian Medical Mission at H...

precision agriculture is continuously trying to address the sources and factors affecting the in-field variability and taking appropriate managerial decisions. one of the popular research focuses in the recent three decades has been on the development of new approaches to making yield variability maps. advancement in development of sensors and the importance of quality factor in high value crop...

In Japan, maximum residue levels (MRL) have been set for eight pesticides (a-BHC, b-BHC, g-BHC, d-BHC (BHCs), p,p′-DDE, o,p′-DDT, p,p′-DDD, p,p′-DDT (DDTs)) in 14 crude drugs (below 0.2 ppm as total of BHCs, below 0.2 ppm as total of DDTs). There are fears that pesticides present in crude drugs for which MRL are set will be changed from BHCs and DDTs to other pesticides with MRL setting as the ...

This experiment was conducted to determine the effect of using L-threonine and reducing dietary levels of crude protein (CP) on egg production criteria in layers. Three hundred of Hy-Line W36 laying hens were used in this experiment. This experiment consisted of three experimental treatments with five replications in each. Experimental treatments included 3 diets with different levels of CP whi...

an experiment was conducted to predict the true metabolizable energy (tmen) of compounded starter feeds of broiler chickens trough their chemical composition using precision-feeding method of sibbald in male boilers. in the first, eight compounded feed samples provided from eight feed plants and their chemical composition determined in laboratory. results of chemical composition showed that ave...

AOCS Official Method Ce 6-86 "Antioxidants, Liquid Chromatographic Method" was originally developed to confirm the correct antioxidant was added at the specified concentration to refined oils. Today, this method is increasingly utilized to validate that antioxidants are absent from oil products. False positive results can have a significant impact on the ability to sell products in specific mar...

this study was conducted to investigate allelopathic effect of the essential oil of artemisia herba-alba asso., on seed germination characteristics of  agropyron desertorum and agropyron cristatum in a laboratory experiment. essential oil was extracted from the aerial parts of artemisia herba-alba using a clevenger-type apparatus. the volatile chemical compositions of artemesia herba-alba were ...

an experiment was carried out to develop and evaluate a semi-purified diet suitable for fiber related studies without negative impacts on performance, serum biochemistry and intestinal morphology of growing japanese quails. total of 144 japanese quail chicks were used in a factorial arrangement using completely randomized design with 6 treatments, 4 replicates of 6 quails in each replicate. the...

one of the most chemical methods for controlling of oil spills is use of dispersants, which arewidely being used worldwide. in this research, comparison of acute toxicity of crude oil of the persian gulf-khark area (co), iranian naftroob crude oil dispersant (ind), radiagreen osd dispersant crude oil (rd), themixture of crude oil and iranian naftroob dispersant ( co-ind) and crude oil with radi...

A novel conotoxin (conopeptide) was biochemically characterized from the crude venom of the molluscivorous marine snail, Conus bandanus (Hwass in Bruguière, 1792), collected in the south-central coast of Vietnam. The peptide was identified by screening bromotryptophan from chromatographic fractions of the crude venom. Tandem mass spectrometry techniques were used to detect and localize differen...