a wide range of haemoglobin, extending from 6*8 g/100 ml to 15*6 g/100 ml. The mean Hb was 12-3 g/100 ml, with only minor variations for age, sex, and season. A significant increase in the Hb followed iron administration if the initial Hb was less than 10-5 g/100 ml, but there was no rise in the mean value if the initial level exceeded 12-5 g/100 ml. Taking 10-5 g/100 ml as the level below whic...

Juniperus scopularum Sarg. (Rocky Mountain juniper) and Potentilla fruticosa L. ‘Gold Drop (gold drop po ten til la) plants grown in containers had sim i lar or bet ter morphology, higher nitrogen con cen tra tions and contents, and high er N-use ef ficien cy when grown with liquid fertilizer ap plied at an exponentially in creas ing rate as compared to the same amount of N applied via controll...

Three trials have been set up in Côte d’Ivoire to analyse the growth of six-year-old microcuttings produced from seedlings, 45-month-old somatic embryos of PB 260 and PR 107 and 31-month-old microcuttings of IRCA 18. The results show that Hevea in vitro plantlets produced by somatic embryogenesis or microcutting consistently grow as well as if not better than conventional budded plants. The dif...

Tuber spp. are ectomycorrhizal ascomycetes that produce ascocarps known as truffles. Basic aspects of Tuber biology have yet to be fully elucidated. In particular, there are conflicting hypotheses concerning the mating system and the ploidy level of the mycorrhizal and truffle hyphae. We used polymorphic microsatellites to compare the allelic configurations of asci with those from the network o...

background: head lice infestation is one of the most common parasitic infections with a long history in the world . the purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of head lice infestation among 3-6 years old children going to nursery schools in kashan, iran in 2009.   materials and methods: this cross-sectional study was performed on 1200 children having the age range of 3-6 years ol...

The objective of the study is to demonstrate an effect of manual feeding on the level of farmer's exposure to airborne contaminants in the confinement nursery pig house. The levels of all the airborne contaminants besides respirable dust, total airborne fungi and ammonia were significantly higher in the treated nursery pig house with feeding than the control nursery pig house without feeding. A...

Dieback in strawberry (Seolhyang cultivar) was first observed during the nursery season (June to September) in the Nonsan area of Korea in the years 2012 and 2013. Initial disease symptoms included dieback on runners, as well as black rot on roots, followed by wilting and eventually blackened, necrotic discoloration in the crowns of daughter plants. A fungus isolated from the diseased roots, ru...

In generational garbage collection, the youngest generation of the heap is frequently traversed during garbage collection. Due to randomness of the traversal, memory access patterns are unpredictable and cache performance becomes crucial to garbage-collection efficiency. Our proposal to improve cache performance of garbage collection is to “pin” the youngest generation (sometimes called the nur...