Fluosol-DA (Perfluorochemical Blood Substitute) was investigated in a previous study and found to provide some protection from ischemia and possible usefulness in limiting the size of infarction. In the present study, larger doses over longer periods of acute focal cerebral ischemia were used. Twenty four cats had transorbital ligation of the middle cerebral artery (MCA). The 12 experimental an...

Avian DNA polymerases use host tRNATrp as the primer for transcription. Bovine tRNATrp has been previously shown to be a biologic substitute for the avian primer. A bovine tRNATrp fragment has been identified as having a high binding affinity for the polymerase. The fragment is assigned to be 67 nucleotides, and contains most of the elements required to maintain the secondary and tertiary struc...

Introduction Obesity is the most common nutritional disorder in dogs and a main health and welfare concern worldwide; it links to a shortened lifespan and increased rate of secondary diseases. Surveillance of dog adiposity is a routine practice and is often estimated from body condition scoring (BCS). But BCS is subjective and fairly sensitive, reducing its utility during weight-loss plans. Sub...

The work treats 52 species-group names related to genus Agrilus incorrectly cited in the world catalogue of Bellamy (2008). The name dimorphus Théry, 1941 from the genus Aphanisticus and mulleri Théry, 1925 from the genus Australodraco are also treated. Four primary or secondary homonyms are replaced by substitute names. Most of the proposed changes refer to the availability, validity, spelling...

a total of 3528 specimens of freshwater turtles belonging to two families viz., geoemydidae (brown river turtle, kachuga smithi; indian saw-backed turtle, k. tecta; brahminy rrive turtle, hardella thurgi; spotted pond turtle, geoclemys hamiltonii) and trionychidae (indian soft-shell turtle, aspederates gangeticus; peacock soft-shell turtle, a.hurum; narrow-headed soft-shell turtle, chitra indic...

We propose the use of H.264 redundant slices for Systematic Lossy Error Protection (SLEP) of a video signal transmitted over an error-prone channel. In SLEP, the video signal is transmitted to the decoder without channel coding. Additionally, a Wyner-Ziv encoded version of the video signal is transmitted in order to provide error-resilience. In the event of channel errors, the Wyner-Ziv descrip...

Products introduced as vegan are recognized by consumers ethical consumption that protects animals and the environment, so they becoming a trend in recent marketing strategies. However, confused claim veganism is not environmentally friendly, contrary to consumers' perception of animal protection environmental protection. Vegan leather, which appeared an alternative natural emits harmful substa...

We use a new geometric construction, grope splitting, to give a sharp bound for separation of surfaces in 4{manifolds. We also describe applications of this technique in link-homotopy theory, and to the problem of locating 1{null surfaces in 4{manifolds. In our applications to link-homotopy, grope splitting serves as a geometric substitute for the Milnor group. AMS Classi cation numbers Primary...