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The efficacy of seed treatment and foliar spray with fungicides in controlling black point incidence of wheat seeds was evaluated in the field. Two seed treating fungicides, namely Vitavax-200 and Homai-80WP were used @ 0.25% of dry seed weight and foliar spray with Tilt-250EC (0.05%) was applied in six different schedules. Untreated and unsprayed controls were also maintained. Seed treatment w...

Young standard dark mink developed classical symptoms of biotin deficiency, including underfur-greying, "spectacle eye," loss of fur, exudates from eyes, nose and mouth and encrustation of paws, when fed a diet containing 10% commercially produced, denatured spray-dried eggs. Comparable animals fed 5% spray-dried eggs did not show these symptoms; however, their pelts tended to be browner (i.e.,...

A 76-year old male presented at the Oral Medicine Clinic, complaining of a persistent feeling of a dry mouth, subsequent to having undergone surgery, chemotherapy and radiation therapy for nasopharyngeal carcinoma, 18 months previously. Other than the cancer, he had no systemic problems of note and was otherwise in good physical health. Upon further questioning, the patient reported that the dr...

Excipients having self-assembling properties are less explored in the field of dry powder inhalation (DPI) technology. An amphiphilic lipopolymer system was developed using stearic acid (SA) and branched polyethyleneimine (BPEI) (1800 Dalton), at different proportions by covalent conjugation. A molecular dynamic (MD) simulation tool was employed for predicting the carrier behavior in a polar in...

Technical development and commercial implementation of the supercritical fluid spray process have produced the surprising result that coating appearance and performance can actually be improved by removing 60 to 80 percent of the organic solvent from solvent-borne coating formulations. Unlike normal diluent solvents and water, the decompressive release of supercritical carbon dioxide during spr...

Many metal-organic frameworks are water labile, including the iconic Hong-Kong University of Science and Technology-1 (HKUST-1). Spray-dry encapsulation of HKUST-1 crystals into polystyrene microspheres is reported here to yield composites that are resistant to water but retain most of the excellent gas sorption capacity of HKUST-1. These composites are demonstrated to exhibit superior water ad...

A 20% solution of fenthion applied to hogs in one spot on the back at the rate of 2 mi/45.5 kg of body weight was effective in controlling hog lice on feeder hogs, dry sows on pasture and sows nursing pigs. Lice were controlled on the nursing although they were not directly treated. Fenthion was superior in lice control to the standard .25% crotoxyphos + vapona spray. (

A rapid, wafer-level, dry process for in-situ synthesis, deposition of stable nanostructured, porous metal-oxide films for gas sensors is presented. Lace-like, nanostructured films of pure SnO2 featuring high porosity (98%) are selfassembled on a target substrate by flame spray pyrolysis (FSP). The nanoparticles are mainly polyhedral and monocrystalline with a grain size of 8.7 nm and crystal s...

Background: Amikacin as a liposomal solution for nebulization is an antibiotic under study for the treatment of Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections in cystic fibrosis patients. In a previous study, the respirability of amikacin dry powders obtained by spray drying was maximized using a Design of Experiment (DoE) approach. This study intended to explore the most influential process and formulation...