Hematology and serum biochemistry blood values are tabulated for Australia's most critically endangered mammal, the Gilbert's potoroo (Potorous gilbertii). Significant differences were found between origin (captive or wild individuals) and age (subadult or adult) of animals. Sex, and presence or absence of Treponema infection, had minimal significance on blood values. Typical cell morphology is...

This paper describes a method of soil erosion and soil movement measurements using 137Cs as a tracer. This technique has been used successfully employed for more than 30 years. Caesium-137 is a valuable tracer to study soil erosion. Its chemical and biological movement in soil is limited. Practically all redeposition of caesium-137 in soil after fallout occurs with soil particles due to strong ...

The {101} transformation twinning bands in Mn–Cu alloys are considered to be the dominant microstructural feature contributing to the high damping capacity of the alloys. Because the face-centered-tetragonal (fct) phase of Mn–Cu alloys has an axis ratio ðc=aÞ of nearly 1, an angular resolution for Kikuchi diffraction bands of better than 0.5 is necessary to identify the twin boundaries by the e...

Cellulose nanofi brils (CNF), also known as nanofi brillar cellulose (NFC), are an advanced biomaterial made mainly from renewable forest and agricultural resources that have demonstrated exceptional performance in composites. In addition, they have been utilized in barrier coatings, food, transparent fl exible fi lms and other applications. Research on CNF has advanced rapidly over the last de...

The lowest spectral gap of segments of a periodic waveguide in R2 is proportional to the square of the inverse length. The aim of this letter is a brief presentation of some results concerning spectral gaps in periodic waveguides. They are a representative example of the type of results derived in the forthcoming paper [5], see also the Closing Remark. Let γ : R → R be a C-function parameterise...

This paper aims to highlight morphosyntactic discrepancies encountered in representing the adjective equivalent in African WordNet, with reference to Northern Sotho. Northern Sotho is an agglutinating language with rich and productive morphology. The language also features a disjunctive orthographic system. The orthography determines the attachment selection of morphemes. The immediate issue, i...

A chamber was constructed within which snow crystals were grown on a string at various temperatures, relative humidities, and acetic acid gas phase mole fractions. The temperature, relative humidity, and acid mole fraction were measured for the first time at the point of crystal growth. Snow crystal morphological transition temperature shifts were recorded as a function of acid mole fraction, a...

Prefixes of the Setswana verb • The subject agreement morphemes, written disjunctively, include non-consecutive subject agreement morphemes and consecutive subject agreement morphemes. For example, the non-consecutive subject agreement morpheme for class 5 is le as in lekau le a tshega (the young man is laughing), while the consecutive subject agreement morpheme for class 5 is la as in lekau la...

OBJECTIVE The presence of sperm-head vacuoles has been suspected to be deleterious to the outcomes of assisted reproductive technology (ART). It is difficult to accurately distinguish morphologically abnormal sperm with vacuoles under a light microscope. This study was performed to analyze the result of the observation of sperm-head vacuoles using Papanicolaou staining under a light microscope ...