Recent studies have illustrated that increasing temperatures have had considerable effects on species and entire ecosystems. In this study I examine long-term trends of egg dimensions (length, breadth and volume) in the population of Tree Sparrows (Passer montanus), investigated during 36 years (1980–2015), in relation to spring temperatures. This species is a common, sedentary, hole-nesting an...

From March 2002 to January 2004, a colony of southern green stink bug, Nezara viridula (L.), was kept in the laboratory, and its oviposition behavior was observed. During oviposition, soon after the egg is expelled, the female touches the egg mass with the dorsal surface of the last tarsomere; this movement of one leg of the hind pair occurred once. This small component of the oviposition behav...

Of 92 drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains isolated from sputum specimens, 86 showed growth in two types of 7H12 broth, one with egg yolk and the other without egg yolk. In addition, two strains grew only in plain 7H12 broth without yolk, and four others were recovered only in the medium supplemented with egg yolk. The radiometrically detected growth was higher in the presence of e...

Authors have found out that bamboo charcoal powder (BCP), which is prepared from bamboo wastes by pyrolysis at low temperatures, is very useful as a carrier for the thermal stabilization of proteins. Hen egg white lysozyme (HEWL) and α-chymotrypsin (CT) were effectively adsorbed onto BCP. The thermal stability of BCP-adsorbed HEWL was strongly dependent upon the adsorption conditions such as so...

The clay soil can present various issues as a construction and infrastructure material. Clay is susceptible to shrinkage swelling, limited bearing capacity, poor drainage, erosion. Several techniques, including stabilization, drainage systems, excavation may alleviate these control the risks associated with soil. There growing interest in stabilization developing environmentally friendly altern...