STUDY DESIGN Retrospective study of 20 patients with degenerative cervical spinal canal stenosis who were treated with corpectomy followed by the placement of a distractable titanium cage (anterior distraction device [ADD]) (Ulrich GmbH & Co. KG, Ulm, Germany). OBJECTIVE To investigate the efficacy of distractable titanium cages for reconstruction following decompressive cervical corpectomy. ...

for cage culture. Species which have been researched and successfully reared in cages in the southeastern region of the U.S. include: catfish, trout, tilapia, striped bass, red drum, bluegill sunfish, crappie, and carp. Other species may be suitable for cage culture but research has lagged behind other aquaculture research in recent years. Interest in cage culture has been revived as an alterna...

Traps baited with ethyl (E, Z)-2, 4-decadienoate (pear ester) or (E, E)-8,10-dodecadienol (codlemone) were used to monitor codling moth, Cydia pomonella L., (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) in 102 apple,Malus domestica Borkhausen, orchards. All orchards were treated with 500Ð1,000 Isomate-C PLUS dispensers/ha during 2000Ð2002. Traps baitedwith pear ester caught their Þrst moth signiÞcantly later on a...

Deregulation of TGF-β superfamily signaling is a causative factor in many diseases. Here we describe a protein engineering strategy for the generation of single-chain bivalent receptor traps for TGF-β superfamily ligands. Traps were assembled using the intrinsically disordered regions flanking the structured binding domain of each receptor as "native linkers" between two binding domains. This y...

Although we have a rather elaborate "working-cycle" for the 60 kDa molecular chaperones, which possess a cavity, and are called Anfinsen-cage-type chaperones to emphasize that they provide a closed, protected environment to help the folding of their substrates, our understanding of the molecular mechanism of how these chaperones help protein folding is still incomplete. The present study adds t...

Single-catch traps are frequently used in live-trapping studies of small mammals. Thus far, a likelihood for single-catch traps has proven elusive and usually the likelihood for multicatch traps is used for spatially explicit capture-recapture (SECR) analyses of such data. Previous work found the multicatch likelihood to provide a robust estimator of average density. We build on a recently deve...

Open-cage derivative C(60)(O)(4)(OH)(2)(NC(6)H(4)(t)Bu)(2) reacts with ICl to form a Baeyer-Villiger type product, which yields an intense green product upon treatment with HI.

An exceptionally stable hollow cage containing 20 scandium atoms and 60 carbon atoms has been identified. This Sc20C60 molecular cluster has a Th point group symmetry and a volleyball-like shape that we refer to below as "Volleyballene". Electronic structure analysis shows that the formation of delocalized π bonds between Sc atoms and the neighboring pentagonal rings made of carbon atoms is cru...

applying a precise forecasting method is necessary to achieve acceptable results in ipm programs. performances of the wing and delta pheromone traps for forecasting the codling moth phenology were compared with physiological time data based on degree-hours. six pheromone traps (three wing and three delta style) were applied for the monitoring of the codling moth population. traps were placed in...

The study of non-volant small mammals was conducted at Kubah National Park (KNP), Sarawak for eight days between November 2018 until February 2019. objective this to determine the species diversity highland (>750 – 805 m a.s.l.) and lowland (<200 KNP. elevation Gunung Serapi is 911 a.s.l. but highest accessible area distance two sampling sites approximately 4.5 km. Humidity temperature me...