In this study, a culture-independent Illumina MiSeq sequencing strategy was applied to investigate the microbial communities colonizing the ancient painted sculptures of the Maijishan Grottoes, a famous World Cultural Heritage site listed by UNESCO in China. Four mixed samples were collected from Cave 4-4 of the Maijishan Grottoes, the so-called Upper Seven Buddha Pavilion, which was built duri...

The goal of this study was to identify the factors that limit the survival of the red-eared slider turtle Trachemys scripta during long-term anoxic submergence at 3 C. We measured blood acid-base status and tissue lactate and glycogen contents after 13, 29, and 44 d of submergence from ventricle, liver, carapace (lactate only), and four skeletal muscles. We also measured plasma Ca , Mg , Na , K...

The induction of apoptosis by Piper betel leaf extracts during 7, 12 dimethylbenz [a] anthracene (DMBA) induced hamster buccal pouch (HBP) carcinoma was studied in male Syrian hamsters using DNA fragmentation and the apoptosis-associated proteins, tissue transglutaminase (tTG) and Bcl-2. Hamsters were divided into four groups of six animals each. Animals in group 1 were painted with a 0.5% solu...

THE sEr OF oval portraits of members of the old Incorporation of Surgeons which hangs in the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh was painted by Sir John Medina some time between about 1695 and 1710. Consideration of the general affairs of the Surgeons of Edinburgh in the late seventeenth century, and comparison with similar collections elsewhere suggests that these portraits were probably co...

Background & Aims: Nanosilver-based paint is a new technology with antimicrobial and antifungal characteristics. These characteristics were investigated in this study with regard to fungal contamination in hospitals. Method: Regarding hospitalization of transplant patients and their sensitivity to hospital infections, two similar rooms were selected in nephrology ward. One of them was paint...

This paper considers the results of an examination painted pottery from prehistoric sites Prmor’ye region (Southern Russian Far East) in northwestern part Sea Japan basin. Red-painted and black-painted ceramic wares occur here only remains Yankovskaya archaeological culture dated to 1st mil. BCE. Red painting appears as a colored surface coating, black is represented by very simple drawn patter...

This paper is a sequel to [LoMa] where moduli spaces of painted stable curves were introduced and studied. We define the extended modular operad of genus zero, algebras over this operad, and study the formal differential geometric structures related to these algebras: pencils of flat connections and Frobenius man-ifolds without metric. We focus here on the combinatorial aspects of the picture. ...

This paper is a sequel to [LoMa] where moduli spaces of painted stable curves were introduced and studied. We define the extended modular operad of genus zero, algebras over this operad, and study the formal differential geometric structures related to these algebras: pencils of flat connections and Frobenius man-ifolds without metric. We focus here on the combinatorial aspects of the picture. ...

tiles and tilework has developed in islamic civilization based on pre-islamic iranian art and then spread out from spain to central asia. herein, iran has played an individual role among different islamic countries and remnants of various tileworks across this wide territory are clear evidences to this claim. among different species of tiles and tile decorations, we face with specific types of ...