The fruticose thallus of the lichen Cladina stellaris (Opiz.) Brodo can be subdivided into individual whorls of branches of known age. Photosynthesis declines steadily with age from a maximum rate of 0.76 milligram CO(2) per gram dry weight per hour in 1-year-old whorls to 0.02 milligram CO(2) per gram dry weight per hour after 15 years. Conversely, the dry biomass of the whorls increases up to...

Four laboratory-raised colonies of two karyotypic forms of Anopheles aconitus, i.e., Form B (Chiang Mai and Phet Buri strains) and C (Chiang Mai and Mae Hong Son strains), were experimentally infected with Plasmodium falciparum and P. vivax using an artificial membrane feeding technique and dissected eight and 12 days after feeding for oocyst and sporozoite rates, respectively. The results reve...

Penelitian dilakukan untuk mengetahui respon antara pupuk kandang sapi dengan NPK yang berpengaruh pada pertumbuhan dan hasil tanaman sorgum. Kegiatan di kebun percobaan Fakultas Pertanian Universitas Slamet Riyadi Surakarta tanggal 18 November 2021 hingga 16 Maret 2022, rancangan acak lengkap (RAL) 2 faktor, kemudian diulang sebanyak 3 kali Faktor pertama menggunakan (S) 4 taraf yaitu (S0) Con...

The septate gregarine parasites of flour beetles (Tribolium spp.) include Gregarina minuta Ishii, 1914, a relatively small species in which both primite and satellite possess an obvious protomerite, and a larger species that lacks the satellite protomerite. The latter species has been placed in the genera Didymophyes and Hirmocystis by various authors, but studies reported here demonstrate that...

The members of the genus Eimeria infect a wide range of vertebrate hosts, such as swine, cattle, goats, sheep, rabbits, turkeys and chickens. It is now generally accepted that seven Eimeria species are recognised to parasitize the intestinal tract of the domestic fowl (Gallus gallus domesticus). Of all the Eimeria species that infect domestic fowl, Eimeria maxima is the most immunogenic species...

Both Plasmodium falciparum and Anopheles gambiae show great diversity in Africa, in their own genetic makeup and population dynamics. The genetics of the individual mosquito and parasite are known to play a role in determining the outcome of infection in the vector, but whether differences in infection phenotype vary between populations remains to be investigated. Here we established two A. gam...

The Call Set up Success Rate is one of the most important Key performance Indicators (KPIs) used by all mobile operators. However there is no standard measurement possible for this parameter. Therefore the different operators can measure it differently. In this paper, a definition of a real Call Set up Success Rate, possibility of its implementation using the current technologies in GSM and dif...

In 1966 and 1971, the authors studied hemoglobin values of about 2,000 women of 10 different occupational groups and different social classes in the same district. The mean values of hemoglobin and serum iron were highest in nursing students followed by urban housewives and nutritionists and lowest in 3 groups of farm wives and shoe factory laborers. The difference in the mean values of hemoglo...

The Limulus amoebocyte lysate (LAL) test was evaluated for rapid detection of gram-negative bacteriuria in an adult patient population. Time to gelation of a standard LAL preparation was used as a measure of significant (greater than 10(5) bacteria per ml) gram-negative bacteriuria, and the results of 190 LAL assays were compared with quantitative urine cultures. Initially, 33 of 36 urine speci...

(1) Competitive ability can be compared between species in two ways: effect of different neighbour species on performance of a single target species or response of different arget species to a single neighbour species. In a 5-week glasshouse experiment, an additive design was used for all combinations of seven species as both target and neighbour species to determine if there were consistent hi...