When different ratios of Eucalyptus leaves and cow dung were mixed and analyzed for worm multiplication, amongst the three ratios (1:1, 3:1 and 3:2), 3:1 was the most suitable ratio as far as multiplication of worms is concerned. There was no multiplication of worms up to two weeks but the worms started multiplying at a significant rate after two weeks. After eight weeks of inoculation the numb...

Mycoplasma gallisepticum (MG) is a reproductive/respiratory disease in poultry implicated in suboptimum egg production and decreased hatchability. Commercial layer hens raised in a controlled environment were inoculated with the S6 strain of MG at 10 wk of age. Egg production and selected egg and egg quality parameters were quantitated over the entire lay cycle for inoculated and control birds....

Introduction The use of fast field-cycling (FFC) with MRI has increased over recent years. The ability to change the external magnetic field (B0) during MR data acquisition affords access to new contrast mechanisms. In this work, we have applied the FFC technique to magnetisation transfer contrast (MTC) imaging experiments. A continuous-wave off-resonance irradiation pulse (or MT pulse) is wide...

Parachlamydia acanthamoebae is an obligate intracellular bacterium naturally infecting free-living amoebae. The role of this bacterium as an agent of pneumonia is suggested by sero-epidemiological studies and molecular surveys. Furthermore, P. acanthamoebae may escape macrophages microbicidal effectors. Recently, we demonstrated that intratracheal inoculation of P. acanthamoebae induced pneumon...

We present preliminary results on hadronic decays of B mesons, based on data recorded at the Υ (4S) resonance with the BABAR detector at the PEP-IIB-factory at SLAC. We measure branching fractions of many B decay modes, including decays to J/ψφK, J/ψπ+π− and ηcK final states. We report the observation of the decay B → D+ s π − and the first measurement of the flavor-tagged D meson production in...

Suppose that (A0, A1) and (B0, B1) are Banach couples, and that T is a linear operator which maps A0 compactly into B0 and A1 boundedly (or even compactly) into B1. Does this imply that T : [A0, A1]θ → [B0, B1]θ compactly? (Here, as usual, [A0, A1]θ denotes the complex interpolation space of Alberto Calderón.) This question has been open for 44 years. Affirmative answers are known for it in man...

We show that the weighted fusion category algebra of the principal 2-block b0 of GL2(q) is the quotient of the q-Schur algebra S2(q) by its socle, for q an odd prime power. As a consequence, we get a canonical bijection between the set of isomorphism classes of simple kGL2(q)b0-modules and the set of conjugacy classes of b0-weights in this case.