In this study, ornamental cranberry (Cornus Alba) reinforced hybrid composite is synthesized. The plant leaves have been collected, dried, and ground for production. After it into unsaturated polyester (UP) at different rates by mass, mixed to show a homogeneous distribution. Then, 5 wt.% of the total mixture added epoxy resin polymerization reactions are started with help necessary additives c...

The morphology and infraciliature of a new ciliate, Aspidisca hongkongensis spec. nov., a large marine form isolated from the coastal waters near Hong Kong, were investigated. It differs from the congeners by the combination of cell size (about 90 x 60 microm in vivo), 9-11 conspicuous dorsal ridges, one fine and seven strong frontoventral cirri, six membranelles in anterior portion of adoral z...

Interskeletal Variation of Bone Mineral Density, Geometry and Microstructure in Long Bone Shafts under Habitual Loading Yau Ming Lai1, Ling Qin2, Kwong Man Lee2, Chun Wai Chan2, Kai Ming Chan2 1Department of Health Technology and Informatics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China; 2Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Chin...

Moderate water stress increases frost hardiness in many woody plants but little attention has been given to changes in hardiness after recovery from water stress. Tests were carried out to examine how much water stress-induced frost hardiness remained when plants were rewatered under different day length regimes. Red osier dogwood plants (Cornus stolonifera Michx.) were water-stressed at normal...

INTRODUCTION It is well established that childhood maltreatment has a detrimental impact on the brain, particularly the hippocampus. However, the hippocampus is a functionally and structurally heterogeneous region, and little is known about how maltreatment might affect hippocampal subregion development throughout important periods of plasticity. This study investigated whether childhood maltre...

Inhibitory neurons in cortical circuits play critical roles in composing spike timing and oscillatory patterns in neuronal activity. These roles in turn require coherent activation of interneurons at different timescales. To investigate how the local circuitry provides for these activities, we applied resampled cross-correlation analyses to large-scale recordings of neuronal populations in the ...

The human hippocampus has been broadly studied in the context of memory and normal brain function and its role in different neuropsychiatric disorders has been heavily studied. While many imaging studies treat the hippocampus as a single unitary neuroanatomical structure, it is, in fact, composed of several subfields that have a complex three-dimensional geometry. As such, it is known that thes...

rose to be a Lieutenant. In the wilds of Canada these pioneer parents of William Osier laboured under incredible hardships and Rev. Osier used to hold services in 20 different places over a territory of 2000 sq. miles. At some out-of-way places the date of next service would be announced 6 months or more ahead and the congregation would be there without any further notice. William Osier's punct...

Cornus mas L. (Cornaceae family) known as the Asiatic and European cornelian cherry is a species of dogwood native to Southwest Asia and Southern Europe. Cornelian cherry is an obviously growing dogwood species in Arasbaran (East Azerbaijan, Iran). It is a medium to large deciduous shrub or small tree growing to 5-12 m tall, with dark brown branches and greenish twigs(Tural and Koca, 2008). The...