Three thousand Periplaneta americana were sacrificed and the following data collected: number parasitized by oxyurid nematodes, age, sex, weight, length, specific gravity of hemolymph, differential cell counts of hemocytes, and the number of each nematode species present. The mean number of nematodes per host for adults and nymphs, and males and females were compared using the Student's Mest. T...

The use of experimental animals in reproductive toxicity testing is critically reviewed on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the publication of the Three Rs concept by Russell and Burch, since there is major concern that reproductive toxicity testing will significantly increase due to the requirements of the EU Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) s...

Samandrag Slumptalsgenerering er eit av dei mest fundamentale og klassiske problema i informatikk. Der er ei lang rekkje kjende gode slumptalsgeneratorar for sekvensielle program. Parallell programmering stiller nye krav til slumptalsgeneratorane, og ulike parallelliseringsparadigme har ulike behov. Når me krev at programmet skal vera deterministisk utelukker me mange av dei vanlegaste løysinga...

CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS Focusing On What We Call Caspian Sea Yogurt...................................................Tatsuya Ishida THOUGHTS ON HEALTH AND NUTRITION RESEARCH Can Intake Of Antioxidants Reduce Immune System Ageing?............................................ Naomi Aiba RESEARCH FINDINGS Skeletal muscle FOXO1 (FKHR)-transgenic mice have less skeletal muscle mass, down-regulated...

Det finns naturligtvis otaliga branscher där invandrare har företag, men restauranger och butiker är kanske mest synliga, i med att innehavarnas egen kultur syns utbudet av varor. I denna artikel ska jag inrikta mig på den typ vi kan kalla orientaliska butiker. Mitt intresse för ämnet väcktes orsaken de här butikerna en vanlig syn stadsbilden, personligen hade aldrig handlat, eller ens varit in...


 Nobelpristageren Tagore er en af det moderne Indiens mest indflydelsesrige forfattere, og central politisk social tænker. Artiklen analyserer den danske offentligheds reaktion på digterens tre besøg værker. Målet i første omgang at afdække umiddelbare receptionshistorie for verdenslitteraturens store skikkelser, men datidens interesse positive holdning til ikke-europæisk erklæret antikol...

Fetal metabolic programming is a concept first suggested by Barker and Hales (1,2) in the early 1990s. On the basis of compelling epidemiological evidence, they hypothesized that fetal and perinatal events, such as maternal undernutrition, were central to determine one’s risk to develop chronic metabolic diseases. Such conditions, including obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular diseases, have b...

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2014.02.012 0019-1035/ 2014 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. ⇑ Corresponding author. Address: Institute of Geological Sciences, Planetary Sciences and Remote Sensing, Freie Universitaet Berlin, Malteserstr. 74-100, 12249 Berlin, Germany. Fax: +49 30 838 70723. E-mail address: [email protected] (T. Kneissl). T. Kneissl a,⇑, N. Schmedemann , V. Reddy...