TESTING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF AN INTERNATIONAL CONSERVATION AGREEMENT: MARKETPLACE FORENSICS AND CITES CAVIAR TRADE REGULATION.

Testing the effectiveness of an international conservation agreement: marketplace forensics and CITES caviar trade regulation.

BACKGROUND: The international wildlife trade is a key threat to Water bottles biodiversity.Temporal genetic marketplace monitoring can determine if wildlife trade regulation efforts such as the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) are succeeding.Protected under CITES effective 1997, sturgeons and paddlefishes, the produce

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Multiphase modelling of glioma pseudopalisading under acidosis

We propose a multiphase modeling approach to describe glioma pseudopalisade patterning under the influence of acidosis.The phases considered at the model onset are glioma, Water bottles normal tissue, necrotic matter, and interstitial fluid in a void-free volume with acidity represented by proton concentration.We start from mass and momentum balanc

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Rapid determination of antibiotic susceptibility of clinical isolates of Escherichia coli by SYBR green I/Propidium iodide assay

Abstract Infections caused by pathogenic Escherichia coli are a serious threat to human health, while conventional antibiotic susceptibility tests (AST) have a long turn-around time, and rapid antibiotic susceptibility methods are urgently needed to save lives in the clinic, reduce antibiotic misuse and prevent emergence of antibiotic-resistant bac

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