Infrastructure Field Hospital ITUs are configured to be in tented accomodation This means they are relatively easy to move and can be rapidly set up. Amongst the many problems associated with this, perhaps the most important is that of environmental control. In 2003, 34 Fd Hospital ICU reported temperatures of over 40oC. Sand blew into the tents easily and the unit had to be damp dusted twice a...

Metallic monoliths were prepared by anodized aluminum-scale pilot plant, using sulfuric acid as electrolyte. Anodisation tests were conducted at different times and different temperatures of the electrolytic bath. Aluminum monolith anodized at 40oC for 30 min was selected for catalysts support. The monoliths were impregnated by two methods: i) impregnation in two stages using two Mn salts in an...

L-asparaginase (L-asparagine amido hydrolase, E.C.3.5.1.1) is an extracellular enzyme having potential therapeutic applications. In the present study, production and partial purification of L-asparaginase fromPseudomonas aeruginosausing solid state fermentation was carried out. It is inferred thatthe bacterial growth was observed in cetrimide agar medium after 48 hours of incubation. The isolat...

The nuclear phenotypes of Malpighian tubule epithelial cells of male nymphs of the blood-sucking insect, Panstrongylus megistus, subjected to short- and long-duration heat shocks at 40oC were analyzed immediately after the shock and 10 and 30 days later. Normal nuclei with a usual heterochromatic body as well as phenotypes indicative of survival (unravelled heterochromatin, giants) and death (a...

The gram-positive spore-forming bacteria, Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) strains produced novel cellulases which could liberate glucose from soluble cellulose, carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC), and insoluble crystalline cellulose. The maximal cellulase activities were obtained after 60 hrs incubation at 28oC in a LB broth medium with 1% CMC. Maximum CMCase activities were got at 40oC and pH 4.0, resp...

O objetivo deste estudo foi determinar a avaliação da atividade antioxidante in vitro das polpas do cerrado brasileiro, com o de identificar qualidade dessa matéria-prima. Após recebimento dos frutos, as foram removidas manualmente e avaliadas por meio radical livre DPPH, compostos fenólicos teor ácido ascórbico. Para obtenção extratos, secas trituradas extraídas etanol (95%) 30 minutos, na pro...

Xestospongia sp. merupakan salah satu sponge dari kelas Demospongiae yang digunakkan sebagai bahan baku obat dapat dikembangkan satunya dengan metode SNEDDS. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui formulasi dan karakteristik SNEDDS ekstrak etanol sp., Formulasi estrak menggunakan VCO fase minyak, Tween 80 surfaktan PEG 400 ko-surfaktan. Formula terbaik didapatkan adalah 8 komposisi yaitu 1 m...

Most of the bacterial pathogens are resistant to existing synthetic antibacterial agents demanding an increasing effort to seek effective phytochemicals as antibacterial agents against such pathogens. Nigella sativa L. (black cumin) seeds play an important role in folk medicine and some of its major constituents are reported to be pharmacologically active. In this present work, black cumin seed...

The catalytic action of two non commercial lipases (E.C. 3.1.1.3) in the synthesis of isoamyl acetate in a solvent-free system, were tested using an experimental design in order to better understand the relationship between the reaction variables. Yields ranging from 67 to 77 % molar conversion were achieved. The synthesis of isoamyl acetate catalyzed by the chosen lipase (Rhizopus sp.) was opt...

Results: In Study One, nursery pigs exhibiting clinical signs of PRDC and treated with THF at 165.0 ppm showed significantly better treatment success than did controls, defined as body temperature < 40oC and respiratory and depression scores < 2 on Day 17 (P < .001), with lower total percent pneumonia lesions (P < .001) and mortality (P < .05). In the THF 137.5 ppm group, total percent pneumoni...