BACKGROUND Energy-containing beverages are widely consumed among premenopausal women, but their association with reproductive hormones is not well understood. OBJECTIVE The objective was to assess the association of energy-containing beverages, added sugars, and total fructose intake with reproductive hormones among ovulatory cycles and sporadic anovulation in healthy premenopausal women. D...

Microbial methanogenesis at extreme conditions of saline alkaline soda lakes has, so far, been poorly investigated. Despite the obvious domination of sulfidogenesis as the therminal anaerobic process in the hypersaline soda lakes of Kulunda Steppe (Altai, southwestern Siberia), high concentrations of methane were detected in the anaerobic sediments. Potential activity measurements with differen...

In the present study, a hydro-refining spent catalyst with an alumina base has been taken into consideration. It is mostly used for the recovery of molybdenum. The spent catalyst constitutes around 21 pct of molybdenum as molybdenum oxide. The study has revealed that at temperature lower than 600C, it is possible to recover an appreciable quantity of molybdenum from the spent catalyst. The stat...

The potential health impacts of imposing large taxes on soda to improve population health have been of interest for over a decade. As estimates of the effects of existing soda taxes with low rates suggest little health improvements, recent proposals suggest that large taxes may be effective in reducing weight because of non-linear consumption responses or threshold effects. This paper tests thi...

An outbreak of Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) affecting 95 (57.2%) out of 166 cattle occurred in a medium-scale dairy farm in Kikuyu district, Kenya. Ethnoveterinary remedies of natural Soda ash solution (97% sodium bicarbonate), honey and finger millet flour were used to manage the FMD lesions. The lesions were washed with soda ash solution to remove the necrotic tissue after which raw honey and...

Giving robots the ability to learn without the guidance of a researcher is a practical method of developing more adaptable and intelligent systems. Self-Organizing Distinctive-State Abstraction (SODA) is an algorithm that allows a robot to learn routines from from raw sensorimotor inputs through training. The goal of our experiment was to implement SODA on a simulated version of the Khepera II ...

This report presents the results of P series of experiments conducted to determine the basic requirements of mice in a * sealed atmosphere. The studies were undertaken as a preliminary to the design of a small container suitable for placement in an orbital rocket. Oxygen consumption of a mouse was determined in the resting state and during vwrious states of activity for time periods ranging fro...

There is an increasing interest in studying the neural interaction mechanisms behind patterns of cognitive brain activity. This paper proposes a new approach to infer such interaction mechanisms from electroencephalographic (EEG) data using a new estimator of directed information (DI) called logit shrinkage optimized directed information assessment (L-SODA). Unlike previous directed information...

O2 diving incidents investigated by our laboratory were related to improper filling of the soda lime canister in closed-circuit oxygen rebreathers. We studied the effect of overfilling or underfilling the canister on CO2 absorption using a continuous flow of 5% CO2. With a full canister in the Oxyger 57, CO2 began to rise at 130-160 min, reaching 1% at 240 min and 1.5% at 270 min. Similar resul...