Recent reports indicated that nutrition in early infancy might influence later child health outcomes such as obesity and metabolic syndrome. Therefore, we examined the effects of maternal high fat diet (HFD) during lactation on the onset of a metabolic syndrome in their offspring. All offspring were cross-fostered by dams on the same or opposite diet to yield 4 groups: offspring from HFD-fed da...

Over two hundred isolated outcrops of horizontally stratified, basaltic lava flows within the inner gorge of western Grand Canyon indicate that several natural “lava dams” blocked the flow of the Colorado River during the Pleistocene, resulting in the formation of several lakes within the canyon. The largest lake was 90 m above the high water level of present-day Lake Powell and backed up a dis...

In October 2001, ,0.2 mol of SF6 was injected into the upper Hudson River, a modified natural channel with multiple dams, at Ft. Edward, N.Y. The tracer was monitored for 7 days as it moved ,50 km downriver. The longitudinal evolution of the tracer distribution was used to estimate one-dimensional advection s9.0±0.2 km d−1d and dispersion s17.3±4.0 m2 s−1d along the river axis. Comparison of th...

Two studies were conducted to produce multiple births in beef females and determine growth performance to 90 days of age of early weaned and artificially reared calves. The effects of early weaning on postpartum reproductive activity of dams producing single or multiple births were also determined. The studies involved 52 nulliparous heifers treated with 6.2 mg FSH and 55 lactating 2-year-old d...

Quantitative real-time PCR is an important high-throughput method in the biomedical sciences. However, existing software has limitations in handling both relative and absolute quantification. We designed quantitative PCR data analysis and management system (qPCR-DAMS), a database tool based on Access 2003, to deal with such shortcomings by the addition of integrated mathematical procedures. qPC...

High- and low-yawning rats (HY and LY) were selectively bred as a function of their spontaneous yawning frequency with the LY subline about 2 yawns/hr and the HY 20 yawns/hr. The HY rats have more grooming bouts and travel longer distances in an open field. HY dams spent less time in the nest, retrieved their pups faster, and show a longer latency to licking and mouthing the pups than the LY or...

Movements against dams not only counts high among all environmental movements in India but also in the world. India’s North East with its increased emphasis on construction of dams has also triggered number of protests in the region. This makes it necessary to delve into the issue of movements against dams in North East India. When the director of Centre for Science and Environment, Sunita Nara...

The aim of this study was to compare the isolation systems OptraDam® Plus and OptiDam™ with the conventional rubber dam in terms of objective and subjective parameters. The isolation systems were applied during the dental treatment of the patients. The time of preparation, placement, presence and removal were measured and the quality of isolation was evaluated. The median time of rubber dam pla...

This case report throws light on treatment of immature apices through apexogenesis and an esthetic postobturation restoration of traumatized young permanent central incisor using a relatively newer methodology of anatomic posts, i.e. shaping the post to the root anatomy. The authors would also like to underline the significance of rubber dam isolation for more predictable outcomes. The new meth...