BACKGROUND/AIMS Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy feeding provides enteral nutrition to patients with neurological dysphagia. Thirty-day mortality rates of 4-26% have been reported, with pneumonia being the common cause post-percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy insertion. MATERIALS AND METHODS This retrospective analysis of percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy tube insertions in Malta (Januar...

The emergence of Google Earth (GE) as an integrative platform for the visualization of geolocated information is presenting the geospatial community with unique application opportunities and corresponding scientific challenges. In this paper we discuss the extension of GE to function as a four-dimensional (x,y,z,t) virtual spatiotemporal environment through the overlay in it of georectified vid...

Glutamine is an important amino acid from a metabolic point of view. As an amino acid and a precursor for other amino acids, it sustains protein synthesis. It is also required for production of nucleotides (pyrimidines) and α-ketoglutarate (αKG). αKG is produced via double deamination of glutamine, a process termed glutaminolysis. Glutamine is first de-aminated by glutaminase (GLS) to produce g...

The method for sulfamethazine using post column derivatization (Associate Referee Robert Smallidge) was adopted First Action in 1999. There are a number of methods which could be readied for collaborative study with relatively little work, i.e., carbadox, ethopabate, lasalocid, or morantel tartrate. In addition to the remarks made for the following Associate Referee topics, readers can refer to...

Mycotoxins are toxic chemicals produced by certain species of molds usually belonging to the Aspergillus, Penicillium or Fusarium genera. The importance of mycotoxins to aquaculture and animal agriculture first became apparent during the early 1960s with outbreaks of aflatoxicosis in young turkeys in the United Kingdom and hatchery-reared rainbow trout (Onchorynchus mykiss) in the United States...

Leveraging random examiner assignment and detailed patent prosecution data, we nd that nonpracticing entities (NPEs) purchase patents granted by examiners that tend to issue incremental patents with vaguely-worded claims. In comparison, practicing entities purchase a very di erent set of patents, but assert patents similar to those purchased by NPEs. These results show that on average NPEs purc...

A study was conducted at the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University (ATBU) Research and Teaching Farm between December May 2006 to determine nutrient intake, digestibility growth performance in Yankasa rams fed urea-treated (UTRS) untreated rice straw (URS) with supplementation. Thirty-two (32) an average weigh of 17.5kg, aged 1.5 2 years old were alloted eight (8) dietary treatments four (4) per tr...

Abstrak. Penelitian ini dilakukan untuk melihat pengaruh penggunaan tepung limbah ikan leubiem (chanthidermis maculatus) dan suplementasi probiotik dalam ransum terhadap produksi karkas itik pedaging. menggunakan Rancangan Acak Lengkap (RAL) yang terdiri 4 perlakuan 3 ulangan. Setiap ulangan merupakan unit percobaan dari 5 ekor sehingga bahan digunakan sebanyak 60 Hasil penelitian disimpulkan b...

oral supplementation with 50, 100 and 150 ?g/ml calcium chloride to the fifth stadium larvae of csr2xcsr4 biovoltine hybrid silkworm, b. mori on fat body glycogen, protein, and total lipids and haemolymph trehalose and protein have been studied. one of the four normal feeds per day was substituted with treated leaves fed to silkworms at fifth instar larvae. the controls were fed with the leaves...