although the persian sturgeon, acipenser persicus , is a commercially valuable sturgeon species of the caspian sea, but there are only few reports about its parasite fauna in the southern part of the caspian sea. in this study, a total of 209 individuals of persian sturgeon were collected from two regions in the southwestern of caspian sea (guilan province, iran) from march 2009 to may 2011. af...

The circular polarization and the absolute intensity of the elliptically polarized synchrotron radiation were measured in the VUV range as functions of the wavelength and of the vertical emission angle with respect to the orbit plane of the 2.5 GeV synchrotron in Bonn. In the wavelength range from 100 to 40 nm the absolute intensity and the circular polarization of the radiation with a bandwith...

OBJECTIVE There has been concern that an increase in billing for high-intensity emergency care is due to changes in coding practices facilitated by electronic health records. We sought to characterise the trends in billing for high-intensity emergency care among Medicare beneficiaries and to examine the degree to which trends in high-intensity billing are explained by changes in patient charact...

BACKGROUND Atopic dermatitis is a chronically relapsing, highly pruritic and inflammatory skin disease. This study was done to assess the effects of vitamins D and E supplementation on the clinical manifestation of atopic dermatitis. METHODS Forty-five atopic dermatitis patients were included in a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial. They were randomly divided into four groups ...

The exciton dynamics for an ensemble of individual, suspended (6,5), single-walled carbon nanotubes revealed by single color E(22) resonant pump-probe spectroscopy for a wide range of pump fluences are reported. The optically excited initial exciton population ranges from approximately 5 to 120 excitons per ∼725 nm nanotube. At the higher fluences of this range, the pump-probe signals are no lo...

It is now accepted that dopamine plays an important neuromodulatory role in the central nervous control of respiration. D1, D2 and D4 subtypes of receptor seem to be important players, but the assignment of various respiratory tasks to specific subtypes of dopamine receptor is a work in progress. In the present investigation, dihydrexidine (DHD), a full dopamine receptor agonist with affinity f...

Mixed silanes are often used as coupling agents in sizings for glass fibres. A technique has been developed which enables the preferential adsorption of a particular silane onto a model E-glass from a mixed aqueous silane solution to be probed. It is shown that け-Aminopropyltriethoxysilane (APS) is preferentially adsorbed over け-glycidoxypropyltrimethoxysilane (GPS) onto model E-glass fibres. H...

Escherichia coli is used as an indicator microorganism in public health. The conventional way to detect E. coli requires several days to produce a result, because it requires incubation of cells. Therefore a rapid and sensitive detection method is needed. T4e-/GFP phage, characterized by suppression of lysozyme and fusion of GFP (green fluorescent protein) to its SOC (small outer capsid) protei...