The purpose of this study was to determine the statistical separability of multispectral measurements from corn having varying levels of southern corn leaf blight severity. Multispectral scanner data in twelve spectral channels in the wavelength range 0.4 to 11.7 pm were analyzed for ten selected flightlines of the 1971 Corn Blight Watch Experiment. A total of 168 corn fields having 18,804 samp...

Eight ewes in each of four groups were injected subcutaneously immediately prior to natural mating with 0, 30, 150, or 750 /ag of estradiol-17/3. The ewes were necropsied 3 days after mating and the ova were examined. None of the three doses of estradiol reduced ovum fertilization significantly, but the 750-/ag dose decreased the number of accessory sperm ceils in the zonae pellucidae. Eight ot...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the morphology of chorionic villi using light and electron microscopy, especially the expression of alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) in trophoblastic cells and the process of maturation and margination vasculogenesis proper using CD34 immunohistochemistry in tissues from the first trimester of pregnancy loss due to anembryonic pregnancy in comparison with embryonic pregnancy. ...

BACKGROUND Gynecological and early pregnancy complaints (GEPC)/lower abdominal complaints (LAC) are common in female patients seeking medical advice or treatments. Clinical limitations of GEPC or LAC are better resolved through appropriate laboratory and imaging investigation, among which the ultrasound examination (USS) is one. AIM To determine the distribution/clinical pattern of female pat...

What happens when we heed a call? Few writers have been as suspicious of their vocation as Franz Kafka (1883-1924). His story, A Country Doctor, (1919) ostensibly about a night visit to a patient that goes badly wrong, suggests a modern writer's journey to the heart of his work. There he discovers that trust, like the tradition which might sustain him, is blighted. This essay also examines Kafk...