Fast and economical means of assaying SNP's are important in diagnostic assays, especially when a large number of animals have to be screened for a genetic disease. This study was aimed at the development of a fast and economical screening assay for bovine leukocyte adhesion deficiency (BLAD) which is an important genetic disease of cattle industry. Four primers were designed where the outer pr...

Any active thing always needs power. All productive tools, machines or working systems, which are so-called productive force, would need proper driving (motive) power (force). The motive power is the heart or core of productive force, which would always want to correspond with a definite relation of production. The different driving powers (or energy resource) with power devices are completely ...

A recent breakthrough in primary amine dehydrogenation by an oxidant-free process, and without any hydrogen acceptor, opens the possibility for RCH2NH2/RCN couples to be considered as potential hydrogen energy carriers. Both hydrogenation and dehydrogenation processes can be catalysed by ruthenium complexes under rather mild conditions. This emerging exciting approach could be the starting poin...

This paper discusses the state of the art in data reconciliation and instrumentation upgrade. In the field of data reconciliation, several new directions of research and recommendations for software vendors as well as practitioners are made. In the case of the emerging field of instrumentation upgrade, aside from also pinpointing research and development directions, practical economical aspects...

The di scovery of iodine by accident and the turning of this event into its industrial manufacturing constitutes a fascinating chapter in the development of chemical technology. We see in it how political and economical events brought drastic changes in the raw materials used and the production technologies. From a strictly European activity it turned into an important economic commodity for Ch...