Nineteen speies belonging to four genera namely, Euglena, phacus, Astasia and Trachelomonas have been studied illustrated form shrimp culture ponds based on one year investigation.

This study sought to determine whether using the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) would detect differences in personality preferences in first-year dental students admitted to the same dental school through different admission methods. First-year dental students admitted in 2000 and 2001 were given the MBTI instrument during orientation prior to the start of classes. In fall 2000, the Class o...

A methodology that combines text mining, statistical process control and a balanced scorecard eliminated inaccurate manual claim coding and a significantly reduced the time required to identify root causes of field failures. As a result annual warranty claim costs have decreased, product reliability has increased, and customer satisfaction has improved.

The 80 years since Zachariasen’s famous paper, 20 years before Stephen Elliott was born, on the random network theory of glass structure have seen remarkable progress in our understanding of the structure of glassy materials through the construction of models and comparison with experiment. In the early days, models were hand-built with plastic units and had free boundary conditions. Today, ver...

BACKGROUND Osteonecrosis of the humeral head is a frequent complication in adults with sickle cell disease. However, little is known about the rate of, and the factors influencing, progression of symptomatic shoulder osteonecrosis in patients with this disease. METHODS Eighty-two adult patients with sickle cell disease and symptomatic osteonecrosis of the humeral head (104 shoulders) were ide...

Eighty-six patients had a total of eighty-eight primary attempts at repair of a pseudarthrosis that had developed after a localized arthrodesis in the lumbar spine. A follow-up questionnaire was sent to all patients at a mean of fifty-one months (range, twenty-five to seventy-eight months) after the operation; seventy-two patients (84 percent) completed to questionnaire. A solid fusion was ulti...