The islands of Batan and Rapu Rapu in southeastern Luzon, Philippines, were surveyed for filariasis from November 1984 to May 1985. Microfilariae of Bancroftian filariasis were detected in 10.5% of the people over one year of age. Microfilarial rates and intensity of infection were the same for males and females. The highest rates for both sexes were in the 56- to 60-year-old age group. Aedes p...

This paper analyzes the relationship between Voas s soft ware testability measure and Musa s fault exposure ratio K It has come to our attention that industrial users of Musa s model employ his published experimental value for K x for their projects instead of creating their own K estimate for the system whose reliability is being as sessed We provide a theoretical argument for how a slight mod...

Phenylphenalenone-type compounds accumulated in the tissues of two banana cultivars-Musa acuminata cv. "Grande Naine" (AAA) and Musa acuminata × balbisiana Colla cv. "Bluggoe" (ABB)-when these were fed on by the banana weevil (Cosmopolites sordidus (Germ.) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)) and the banana stem weevil (Odoiporus longicollis (Oliver) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)). The chemical constitue...

– (Histological changes in banana explants, cv. Nanicão (Musa spp. Group AAA), submitted to different auxins for induction of somatic embryogenesis). The present work analyzes the behavior of banana explants, cv. Nanicão (Musa spp. Group AAA) regarding somatic embryogenesis induction treatments with several auxins. Longitudinal segments of shoot meristematic apices of micropropagated banana pla...

The banana lectin from Musa paradisiaca, MW 29.4 kDa, has been isolated, purified and crystallized. The trigonal crystals contain one dimeric molecule in the asymmetric unit. The structure has been solved using molecular replacement to a resolution of 3 A. The structure of the subunit is similar to that of jacalin-like lectins.

Ayurveda recommends many simple herbs in the treatment of urological afflictions like urolithiasis. Seventyone patients diagnosed to be suffering from urolithiasis were treated with juice of the core of the pseudostem of Musa Paradisiaca and Musa sapientum. A significant segment of them passed out calculi of varying size after consuming the drug for two weeks. Recurrence of stone formation was ...

Nuclear DNA content and genomic distributions of 5S and 45S rDNA were examined in nineteen diploid accessions of the genus Musa representing its four sections Eumusa, Rhodochlamys, Callimusa and Australimusa, and in Ensete gilletii, which was the outgroup in this study. In the Eumusa (x = 11), 2C DNA content ranged from 1.130 to 1.377 pg, M. balbisiana having the lowest DNA content of all secti...

Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi 780-850 AD The word " algebra " is taken from the title of one of his books.

(1) Bambara (Zribi-Hertz & Hanne 1995) Musa ye Uru min sAn, n ye o ye. Moussa PF knife REL buy 1SG PF him saw I saw the knife that Moussa bought.’ (2) Burushaski (Tiffou & Patry 1995) amenmoiNga bariN écam (ka) mo gusmoiNa !are sail ayét. which-COM words I-will-do and the womanCOM with walk don't ‘Dont (have a) walk with the woman with whom I'll speak.’ (3) Hungarian (Lipták 2005) [Akivel Mari ...