The recent emergence of heritable high level resistance to phosphine in stored grain pests is a serious concern among major grain growing countries around the world. Here we describe the genetics of phosphine resistance in the rust red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum (Herbst), a pest of stored grain as well as a genetic model organism. We investigated three field collected strains of T. castan...

This technical note provides an introduction to writing stored procedures using the Java language. The primary purpose of the workshop is to demonstrate the steps required to publish a Java method inside the Oracle 8i Lite database environment.

The Relational Algebra is composed of several operators to assist queries and data manipulation on Relational Databases. The Relational Division operator, particularly, allows simple representations of several queries involving the concept of “for all”, however, the SQL does not have an explicit implementation for it. In this paper, we compare the performance of the best implementation known fo...

In order to facilitate locomotion and limb movement many animals store energy elastically in their tendons. The formation of crosslinked collagen fibers in tendons results in the conversion of weak, liquid-like embryonic tissues into tough elastic solids that can store energy and perform work. Collagen fibers in the form of fascicles are the major structural units found in tendons. The purpose ...

The Grandjean-Friedel-Cano wedge geometry is used to produce well controlled edge dislocation patterns in ordered latexes. Due to the strain field, the color of the Bragg reflected light is found to be modified, making the dislocations easily visible in a metallurgical microscope. An estimate of the elastic energy stored in this strain field is made. The minimum energy configuration of the disl...

We wish to report a correction to our study [1]. This does not alter the interpretation of the data. The strain S288c that was used in the study was reported incorrectly as having the genotype: MATα his3 leu2-3,112 lys2 trp1 ura3-52. In fact the S288c strain we used, stored in our laboratory as MW481, is MATα gal2mal2. Release of extraction-resistant mRNA in stationary phase Saccharomyces cerev...

The work reported here sought to assess the protection afforded by two stabilizing solutions (sorbitol-gelatin and glutamic acid-lactose) in preserving the potency of freeze-dried Schwarz strain measles virus during storage with a view to the production of reference preparations and working lots of virus suspensions. Stabilized virus suspensions and control suspensions were stored at -70 degree...

statement of problem: biomechanics of the human dentition is inherently complex. purpose: the aim of this study is to investigate, in vitro, the creep and the recovery of dentin under static uniaxial compressive stress conditions. materials and methods: specimens of cylindrical morphology were prepared from recently extracted non-carious lower molar teeth, such that the average tubule orientati...

stability studies play a critical role in assuring product quality at all points in the vaccine life cycle and havea major impact on the success of immunization programs worldwide. the purpose of stability study isdetermination of the vaccine quality under the variety of environmental factors and to establish a re-testperiod or a shelf life and recommended storage conditions. in this study thre...