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Merrill Adams
No full textMerrill Adams is the son of John and Elma Merrill Adams. He married Judy Clark. He served in the Utah National Guard. He owned the Maeser Trailer Park, Maeser Roller Skating Rink, amd MJ Enterprises. He also worked for Chevron of r30 years. He was born January 29, 1941 and died September 18, 2019
Policies on pets for healthy cities: A conceptual framework.
No full textDrawing on the One Health concept, and integrating a dual focus on public policy and practices of caring from the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion, we outline a conceptual framework to help guide the development and assessment of local governments' policies on pets. This framework emphasizes well-being in human populations, while recognizing that these outcomes relate to the well-being of non-human animals. Five intersecting spheres of activity, each associated with local governments' jurisdiction over pets, are presented: (i) preventing threats and nuisances from pets, (ii) meeting pets' emotional and physical needs, (iii) procuring pets ethically, (iv) providing pets with veterinary services and (v) licensing and identifying pets. This conceptual framework acknowledges the tenets of previous health promotion frameworks, including overlapping and intersecting influences. At the same time, this framework proposes to advance our understanding of health promotion and, more broadly, population health by underscoring interdependence between people and pets as well as the dynamism of urbanized ecologies. Key words: Health promotion, animal welfare, environmental policy, urban healthThis work was supported by an operating grant (CIHR-GIR-112745) from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Institute for Population and Public Health, for which Melanie Rock and Gavin McCormack are principal investigators and the other authors are members of the research team. During the process of analysis and writing, Melanie Rock held a Population Health Investigator Award from Alberta Innovates—Health Solutions (funded by the Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research Endowment). Coordination with CD was, in addition, facilitated by Visiting Scholar awards, held in 2012 and 2013 at the University of Sydney, from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Institute for Population and Public Health
Gibbs free-energies of transfer of the peroxodisulfate anion from water into aqueous methanol and into aqueous acetone
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Self-compression of 4.9 µm pulses to sub-40 fs with 2 mJ energy in Zinc Sulfide
No full textNonlinear self-compression of few-cycle multi-mJ pulses at 4.9 µm in ZnS is presented. 80 fs input pulses are compressed to 37 fs with 2.1 mJ energy at a 1 kHz repetition rate. © 2024 The Author(s
Kinetics of peroxodisulfate oxidation of low-spin iron(ii) complexes in binary aqueous mixtures
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Correction to: Chamoun et al., Bacterial pathogenesis and interleukin-17: interconnecting mechanisms of immune regulation, host genetics, and microbial virulence that influence severity of infection
No full textChamoun MN, Blumenthal A, Sullivan MJ, Schembri MA, Ulett GC. 2018. Bacterial pathogenesis and interleukin-17: interconnecting mechanisms of immune regulation, host genetics, and microbial virulence that influence severity of infection. Critical Reviews in Microbiology. https://doi.org/10.1080/1040841X.2018.1426556.
When the above article was first published online, the below three corrections were missed.
The author ‘Antje Blumenthal’ was wrongly affiliated to the affiliation “cSchool of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, and Australian Infectious Disease Research Centre, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia”. Now this affiliation has been removed for this author.
The affiliation ‘bTranslational Research Institute, The University of Queensland Diamantina Institute, Woolloongabba, Australia’ of the author ‘Antje Blumenthal’ should read ‘bThe University of Queensland Diamantina Institute, Translational Research Institute, Brisbane, Australia’.
In Table 3, the sentence ‘Benefit of manipulating IL-17 levels to improve immunization strategies M. tuberculosis’ should read “Benefit of manipulating IL-17 levels to improve immunization strategies against M. tuberculosis”.No Full Tex
Generation of 22-mJ, 2.0-ps Pulses from a 1-kHz Ho:YLF Regenerative Chirped Pulse Amplifier
No full textWe report a CW-pumped Ho:YLF regenerative amplifier (RA) delivering pulses with 22.5-mJ energy and 2.0-ps duration at 1 kHz. The RA emitting at 2051 nm is broadband-seeded and implemented in a chirped pulse amplification system. © 2024 The Author(s
6-Phosphogluconate dehydrogenase from Lactococcus lactis: a role for arginine residues in binding substrate and coenzyme
No full textA gene encoding 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase (6-PGDH, EC 1.1.1. 44) was identified from the homofermentative lactic acid bacterium Lactococcus lactis, by complementation of Escherichia coli mutants. The cloned gene was then expressed to high levels in E. coli and the protein purified for kinetic analysis. The enzyme had a Km for 6-phosphogluconate of 15.4+/-1.4 microM and for NADP of 1.9+/-0.2 microM at pH 7.5. Sequence comparison of the L. lactis 6-PGDH with the corresponding enzyme derived from the pathogenic protozoan Trypanosoma brucei and sheep liver revealed the substrate-binding residues to be identical in all three species, although the three coenzyme-binding pockets differed slightly. A totally conserved arginine residue (Arg-447), believed to bind the 6-phosphate of substrate, was mutated to lysine, aspartate, alanine or tryptophan. In each case enzyme activity was lost, confirming an essential role for this residue on activity. A second arginine (Arg-34), believed to be critical in binding the 2'-phosphate of cofactor NADP+, was mutated to a tyrosine residue, as found in one atypical isoform of the enzyme in Bacillus subtilis. This alteration led to decrease in affinity for NADP+ of nearly three orders of magnitude. A second 6-PGDH gene has been identified from the genome of B. subtilis. This second isoform contains an arginine (Arg-34) in this position, suggesting that B. subtilis has two 6-PGDHs with different coenzyme specificities
Feeding guanidinoacetic acid to broiler chickens can compensate for low dietary metabolisable energy formulation
No full text1. This study compared the responses of broilers to diets supplemented with the same level of guanidinoacetic acid (GAA) but formulated to have different N-corrected apparent metabolisable energy (AMEn) contents. The study involved 1280, one-day-old Ross 308 broilers, in 64 pens comprising 32 pens of males and 32 pens females, (20 birds in each) aged from 0 to 42 days.
2. Commercial AME levels of 12.55 MJ/kg, 12.97 MJ/kg and 13.18 MJ/kg in the starter, grower and finisher diets, respectively, were set for the positive control (PC) feed. Four dietary treatments were prepared: PC (as above); negative control 1 (NC; PC - 0.21 MJ ME /kg); NC1+ 0.06% GAA; NC2 (PC - 0.42 MJ ME/kg + 0.06% GAA). Each diet was provided in 16 pens (eight male and eight female), following randomisation.
3. Overall, birds fed NC1 had lower feed intakes (FI) compared to birds fed the PC and NC2+GAA, lower weight gain (WG) compared to all the other diets and lower final body weight than birds fed the GAA diets (P<0.05). There was a diet x sex interaction (P=0.039), whereby feeding NC+GAA to female birds improved feed efficiency compared to being fed NC2 and NC1+GAA, but not in males. Birds fed diets with GAA had a higher poultry efficiency factor (P < 0.001) than those fed NC1.
4. There were no effects of treatment or sex on litter moisture, footpad score, white striping, wooden breast, AMEn, dry matter and fat retention (P>0.05). However, the diet NC1+GAA had 11.2% higher nitrogen retention coefficient compared to the NC1 diet (P=0.038).
6. Overall, the results implied that lower performance induced by a reduction of dietary AMEn in the range of 0.21 to 0.42 MJ/kg was more than compensated by supplementing 600 g/t GAA to the feed
Single and bulk compression of pharmaceutical excipients: Evaluation of mechanical properties
No full textThe compaction of powders into tablets is widely used in the pharmaceutical industry to convert drugs, in the form of small particles, into coherent and robust metered solid dosage forms. In order to produce robust tablets with the required. properties, it is essential to understand the elastic, viscoelastic and plastic properties and rupture strength of the feed particles, which can be as small as a few microns in diameter. The objective of this work is to characterise the mechanical properties of single particles using a micromanipulation diametrical compression technique and relate the parameters to the compression behaviour of powders. Mechanical parameters, such as the Young's modulus, hardness and nominal rupture stress, were thus determined for each sample. The bulk compression data of the powders were analysed to calculate the parameters of the Heckel (Heckel, R.W., 196] a An analysis of powder compaction phenomena, Trans Metal Soc. AIME, 221, 1001-1008; Heckel, RX, 1961b Density-pressure relationships in powder compaction, Trans Metal Soc. AIME 671-675), Kawakita (Kawakita, K. and Ludde, K.H., 1971 Some considerations on powder compression equations, Powder Technology, 4, 61-68) and Adams (Adams, M.J., Mullier, M.A. and Seville, J.P.K., 1994 Agglomerate strength measurement using a uniaxial confined compression test, Powder Technology, 78, 5-13.) models. These parameters will be compared with each other, and with the mechanical properties of the individual component particles. A correlation has been found between the nominal rupture stress of single particles and the apparent strength derived from the Kawakita and Adams models. (c) 2007 Published by Elsevier B.V
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