Given the diversity of prey consumed by insectivorous bats, it is difficult to discern the composition of their diet using morphological or conventional PCR-based analyses of their faeces. We demonstrate the use of a powerful alternate tool, the use of the Roche FLX sequencing platform to deep-sequence uniquely 5' tagged insect-generic barcode cytochrome c oxidase I (COI) fragments, that were P...

Objective: This research planned to record traditional uses and preparations of herbal medicines in Savaştepe, Balıkesir. The study was conducted between the years 2012-2016. Savaştepe district is located on borders Balıkesir province. Methods: 44 villages connected were visited during research. With help local people, collected plants diagnosed converted into herbarium specimens. All samples a...

Functionalizing the well-known MIL-53(Al) metal-organic framework with amino groups increases its selectivity in CO(2)/CH(4) separations by orders of magnitude while maintaining a very high capacity for CO(2) capture.

The banana is one of the most important components in economy and food guarantee, mainly countries with fragile economies. In Peru, itsimportance lies being a valuable source for consumer factor guarantee producer his family. Itpreviewed arthropod fauna associated withthe crop, Musa paradisiacaL., seda variety, two towns: Villa Salvación village Mansilla, both placed district province Manu, Mad...

Birt-Hogg-Dubé syndrome (BHD), a genodermatosis characterized by multiple hamartomas of the hair follicle (fibrofolliculoma), predisposes individuals to an increased risk of developing renal neoplasms and spontaneous pneumothorax. Previously, we localized the BHD locus (also known as FLCN) to chromosome 17p11.2 by linkage analysis and subsequently identified germline mutations in a novel gene i...

During flight, many insect wings undergo dramatic deformations that are controlled largely by the architecture of the wing. The pattern of supporting veins in wings varies widely among insect orders and families, but the functional significance of phylogenetic trends in wing venation remains unknown, and measurements of the mechanical properties of wings are rare. In this study, we address the ...

Welfare caseloads are increasingly made up of never-married mothers and their children. Of all single-parent families, these families are the least likely to receive child support from the children's father. We attempt to measure the extent to which changes in legal policy have generated improvement in establishing paternity and obtaining child support orders for this group of families. We cons...

The section of the Bandama River located in Haut-Bandama Wildlife Reserve was subject to several pressures induced by anthropic activities that take place there. These could have impacts on structure biological communities such as aquatic insects which are indicators state ecological integrity environment. This study conducted evaluate diversity and entomofauna this part River. Sampling from Ja...

We synthesized a potent new antitumor podophyllotoxin derivative (4beta-aminoalkyl-4'-O-demethyl-4-desoxypodophyllotoxin; TOP-53) in our search for a drug that has strong activity against lung cancer and lung metastatic cancer. TOP-53 exhibited twice the inhibitory activity of etoposide (VP-16) against topoisomerase II and induced DNA strand breaks but showed no inhibitory activity against tubu...