The risk of effects to fishes and other aquatic life from impulsive sound produced by activities such as pile driving and seismic exploration is increasing throughout the world, particularly with the increased exploitation of oceans for energy production. At the same time, there are few data that provide insight into the effects of these sounds on fishes. The goal of this study was to provide q...

The objective of this study was to identify muscles from cow populations that are equivalent or may possibly be made equivalent to muscles from A-maturity, Select-grade cattle in terms of chemical, compositional, and color characteristics. Objective color, expressible moisture, proximate composition, pH, heme iron concentration, and total collagen content were determined for 9 muscles (M. glute...

The house fly, Musca domestica L., is an important ectoparasite with the ability to develop resistance to insecticides used for their control. Thiamethoxam, a neonicotinoid, is a relatively new insecticide and effectively used against house flies with a few reports of resistance around the globe. To understand the status of resistance to thiamethoxam, eight adult house fly strains were evaluate...

BACKGROUND A variety of biomarkers have been investigated on their values to predict cardiovascular outcomes, such as high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hs-CRP), fibrinogen, troponin-I (TnI), and soluble P-selectin (sP-sel). By a design of head-to-head comparison, this study sought to figure out the long-term prognostic values of these parameters in patients hospitalized with suspected corona...

OBJECTIVE Both IV immunoglobulin (IVIg) and plasma exchange (PLEX) are immunomodulatory treatments used to treat patients with myasthenia gravis (MG), but the choice of which treatment to administer to patients is limited due to lack of evidence from adequately powered, masked, randomized, standardized trials. METHODS We randomized 84 patients with moderate to severe MG defined as a Quantitat...

A k-plex in a Latin square of order n is a selection of kn entries in which each row, column, and symbol is represented precisely k times.A transversal of aLatin square corresponds to the case k = 1. We show that for all even n > 2 there exists a Latin square of order n which has no k-plex for any odd k < n4 but does have a k-plex for every other k ≤ 1 2n. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Combi...

We define a k-plex to be a partial latin square of order n containing kn entries such that exactly k entries lie in each row and column and each of n symbols occurs exactly k times. A transversal of a latin square corresponds to the case k = 1. For k > n/4 we prove that not all k-plexes are completable to latin squares. Certain latin squares, including the Cayley tables of many groups, are show...

departments. Even then, we doubt that the quality of data gleaned would justify the cost incurred. We fail to see that the quality of information gathered by using the point-radius method would be an improvement over our suggestion. In our original article, we suggested using sets of standardized questions that are tailored to a given vector-borne disease. We also indicated that a critical mini...