b-Glucosidase F42 of soy cotyledons was purified by ammonium sulfate fractionation, ion-exchange chromatography (CM-Sephadex-C-50, Sigma, St. Louis, MO) and gel filtration (Sephadex G-100, Sigma). The enzyme was purified 111.8-fold relative to its concentration in the crude extract. It had an…

The present work reports the length?weight relationships (LWR) for four ornamental fish species from the middle Negro River basin, Amazonas, Brazil. The r2 value ranged from 0.810 to 0.941 and values of b varied from 2.346 to 3.442. These results…

Much organisational theory has been inspired by ideas of complexity and chaos theory. However, does this really happen in practice? Greg
O’Shea argues that, to maintain these principles, we need to be able to dig deeper into what is happening…

Vários estudos averiguam que a Velocidade Crítica (VCRIT) é um método indireto para estimar o
Limiar Anaeróbio (Lan). Entretanto, a literatura é defasada ao mostrar o comportamento da VCRIT durante
um período de treinamento.O objetivo desse estudo foi…

This paper represents a starting point in an information literacy research project by academic librarians in a UK university. The research project explores ways of enabling and encouraging quality student reading through the development of a University Reading Strategy, a…

ABSTRACT - Purpose: Unlike orthodox medicines, specific guidelines for dissolution testing of complementary/alternate (CAMs) and traditional medicines (TMs) have not been developed nor is dissolution testing a requirement for the quality control of such products. In this report, the dissolution…

Purpose: The aim of this paper is to assess both the philosophical underpinnings and contributions to knowledge made by research in the field of strategy in the five years between 2002 and 2006.

Design/methodology/approach: The paper begins with…

Operational police officers often work in traumatic situations. Whilst training and support is provided to officers in these areas in the UK, and some debriefing and counselling is provided, this is not fully effective in addressing the so-called ‘attitudinal’ problem…

Suggests that we are reaching a crisis in the Western worldview where abstract thinking has lost touch with nature as untrammelled growth leads to chaos
in the money markets, global warming
and violence. The purely rational
worldview which began with…

Abstract: Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis is the aetiological agent of caseous lymphadenitis (CLA), a debilitating disease of sheep and goats. Accurate diagnosis of CLA primarily relies on microbiological examination, followed by biochemical identification of isolates. In an effort to facilitate C. pseudotuberculosis…