Project Gutenberg
... geographic distribution of the flora on 10 coral cays in the southern Great Barrier Reef region was ... saturated and moisture—stressed habitats characteristic of the cay periphery. We postulated subsequently that the observed geographic ... percentage of alien plant species recorded on a cay is a sensitive nonlinear response to the frequency of human visitor traffic to that cay and, most importantly, is independent of cay size. Moreover, the porportion of alien species on the cays has increased consistently since 1912, consonant presumably with ...
Tópico(s): Plant and animal studies
1986 - Wiley | Ecology
Anthony J. De Lucca, Stephen M. Boué, Tin Sien, Thomas E. Cleveland, Thomas J. Walsh,
The fungicidal properties of purified CAY-1, dissolved silver ion and ethylenediamine tetraacetic acid (EDTA) separately were studied in vitro as were the abilities of silver and EDTA to enhance CAY-1 fungicidal properties. Non-germinated and germinating conidia ... oxysporum and Fusarium solani were incubated separately with CAY-1 (0–24.8 μg ml−1), silver ( ... germinated conidia only or with the sub-lethal CAY-1 test concentrations. The minimum inhibitory concentrations (MICs) for CAY-1 and silver, both separate and combined, were ...
Tópico(s): Essential Oils and Antimicrobial Activity
2009 - Wiley | Mycoses
Julie A. Savidge, Matthew W. Hopken, Gary W. Witmer, Susan M. Jojola, Judy Pierce, Patrick W. Burke, Antoinette J. Piaggio,
Congo Cay, U.S. Virgin Islands, has high value for breeding seabirds and is a potential reintroduction site for ... mitochondrial DNA sequences of ship rats from Congo Cay and three other nearby cays to determine if rats found after the most ... effort were surviving individuals or reinvaders from neighboring cays; we had no pre-eradication samples. Only one ... limited haplotype diversity. Low genetic variation on Congo Cay suggested either a population bottleneck resulting from survivors ... levels of gene flow between Congo and Lovango Cays and between Mingo and Grass Cays. Except for ...
Tópico(s): Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
2012 - Springer Science+Business Media | Biological Invasions
Lin Luo, Rica Tanaka, Shigeyuki Kanazawa, Feng Lu, Ayato Hayashi, Takehiko Yokomizo, Hiroshi Mizuno,
... leukotriene B4 receptor type 2 (BLT2) agonist CAY10583 (CAY) accelerates wound healing in diabetic mice by promoting ... are unknown. We investigated the mechanisms by which CAY promotes wound healing.CAY was applied to wounds on streptozotocin-induced diabetic ... scratch assays and MTS assays. Keratinocyte supernatants with CAY were applied to fibroblasts, and cytokines were measured by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays.CAY significantly accelerated wound healing in diabetic rats (CAY, 78.05±12.22% vs. control, 59.84± ...
Tópico(s): Diabetic Foot Ulcer Assessment and Management
2016 - Elsevier BV | Journal of Diabetes and its Complications
1 The species occurring on 128 small cays in the central Exumas and 54 small cays near Andros, Bahamas, were surveyed. 2 Step-wise multiple linear regressions selected the log transformations ... frequent first-selected variable. 3 In both archipelagoes, cays with vegetation were significantly larger, higher and closer to a mainland island than cays naturally devoid of vegetation. 4 High degrees of ... species. 6 Species turnover was measured for 77 cays in the Exumas, which were surveyed annually over ...
Tópico(s): Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
1997 - Wiley | Journal of Ecology
Natalie L. Waller, Ian Gynther, Alastair B. Freeman, Tyrone H. Lavery, Luke K.‐P. Leung,
... oceanographic impacts stemming from anthropogenic climate change. Bramble Cay (Maizab Kaur), an ~4ha, low elevation sand cay located in Torres Strait, Australia, supports the only known population of the endangered Bramble Cay melomys Melomys rubicola Thomas, 1924. As a result ... 2004, habitat loss due to erosion of the cay and direct mortality from storm surges were implicated ... 5h of diurnal searches were undertaken on Bramble Cay. Key results All three survey periods failed to detect any Bramble Cay melomys. The island had experienced a recent, severe ...
Tópico(s): Species Distribution and Climate Change
2017 - CSIRO Publishing | Wildlife Research
Sinem Salman, Feramuz Özdemir,
Çay, Camellia sinensis L. (O) Kuntze bitkisinin genç sürgün ve yapraklarından üretilen bir içecektir. Genellikle siyah ve yeşil çay olarak tanınan bu içeceğin, Uzak Doğu ülkelerinde sarı çay, oolong çay, pu-erh çay, beyaz çay gibi çeşitleri de bulunmaktadır. Çin’de yüzyıllardır üretilen beyaz çay ve pu-erh çaya, özgün tat ve aromaları nedeniyle ilgi artmaya başlamıştır. Bunlardan, beyaz çay, batı dünyasının ve Türkiye’nin de gündemine girmeye başlamıştır. Ancak, çay üreten bir ülke olan Türkiye’nin beyaz çaya ...
Tópico(s): Nuts composition and effects
2018 - | Akademik Gıda
The coral cays of the Swain Reefs are far removed (up to 200 km) from any mainland influence. There is a ... relationship between species distribution, species-turnover, and coral cay instability. Factors promoting cay instability include: (1) seasonal variation in wind direction, ( ... appears to be a major cause of inter-cay variations in plant species distribution. This is shown by comparing the orientation and position of the cays in 1964 with their present morphology. Gannet Cay for example only has a very small percentage ...
Tópico(s): Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
1986 - Coastal Education and Research Foundation | Journal of Coastal Research
Alastair R. Harborne, Peter J. Mumby, Carrie V. Kappel, Craig P. Dahlgren, Fiorenza Micheli, Katherine E. Holmes, James N. Sanchirico, Kenneth Broad, Ian A. Elliott, Daniel R. Brumbaugh,
... and outside a Caribbean coral reef reserve (Exuma Cays Land and Sea Park [ECLSP], The Bahamas), stratified ... used to categorize the effects of the Exuma Cays Land and Sea Park (ECLSP) on fish and ... category Definition Diagrammatic representation Robust Within the Exuma Cays, only significant pairwise comparisons between the ECLSP and ... around any other island Potential* Within the Exuma Cays, only a significant pairwise comparison between the ECLSP ... around any other island Misleading Within the Exuma Cays, only one or two significant pairwise comparisons between ...
Tópico(s): Marine and coastal plant biology
2008 - Wiley | Journal of Applied Ecology
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Francisco Casado, Cibele Rodrigues Bonvicino, C.A. Nagle, Belén Comas, Teresita Manzur, M. M. Lahoz, Héctor N. Seuánez,
... paraguayanus, recently considered a junior synonym of Cebus cay, and estimated its time of separation from C. apella. Cytochrome b DNA from 23 C. cay from Brazil and 9 from Paraguay showed 24 ... averaged 0.5%, with 1.1% between C. cay populations. Phylogenetic reconstructions and median joining separated C. cay from Brazil and Paraguay. Neighbor joining showed C. cay and C. apella as sister groups, although C. cay and C. apella collapsed in maximum parsimony and ... variance showed the highest variance component between C. cay populations, and mismatch distribution indicated that this species ...
Tópico(s): Plant and animal studies
2010 - Oxford University Press | Journal of Heredity
Yu Zhong, Xingtao Chen, Haitao Peng, Zhengwen Ding, Yonggang Yan,
The novel Ca-zeolite/poly(amino acid) (CaY/PAA) composites for bone substitute applications with hemostatic activity were prepared using the in situ melting polymerization method. In this study, Ca-zeolite (CaY) loaded with Ca2+ was obtained from Y-type ... by ion-exchange method. The properties of the CaY/PAA composites and PAA, including composition, structure, compressive ... The results showed that compressive strength of the CaY/PAA composites ranged from 145 to 186 MPa, ... 6 wt%, respectively, and the pH values for CaY/PAA composites increased to about 8.0 in ...
Tópico(s): Periodontal Regeneration and Treatments
2018 - Taylor & Francis | Journal of Biomaterials Science Polymer Edition
Masayasu Kimura, Jun Suzuki, KOUJI AMEMIYA,
A genetically diabetic model, KK-CAy mice which were bred by mating female KK mice (aa, BB, cc) with male KK-CAy mice (Aya, BB, CC) was studied on the ... for a pharmacological assay. Body weights of KK-CAy mice increased more rapidly than those of control ... C. When the body weights of male KK-CAy mice reached about 30 g 10 weeks after ... in the females. Glucose tolerance in the KK-CAy mice was more markedly impaired than that in ... the increase in body weight on both KK-CAy mice and the controls. On hyperinsulinemia observed, the ...
Tópico(s): Adipose Tissue and Metabolism
1979 - Japan Endocrine Society | Endocrinologia Japonica
Massimo D’Orazio, F. Innocenti, P. Manetti, Marco Tamponi, S. Tonarini, Oscar Gonzalez-Ferran, Alfredo Lahsen, R. Omarini,
... collection of volcanic rock samples erupted by the Cay and Maca Quaternary volcanoes, Patagonian Andes (∼45°S, Chile). Cay and Maca are two large, adjacent stratovolcanoes that ... major- and trace-element distributions indicate that the Cay and Maca magmas differentiated by crystal fractionation without ... derived materials involved in the genesis of the Cay and Maca magmas is investigated by means of ... were added to the mantle sources of the Cay and Maca volcanoes and that, despite the very ... the magma genesis. Notwithstanding the proximity of the Cay and Maca magma sources to the northern edge ...
Tópico(s): High-pressure geophysics and materials
2003 - Elsevier BV | Journal of South American Earth Sciences
Theodouli Stergiopoulou, Anthony J. De Lucca, Joseph Meletiadis, Tin Sein, Stephen M. Boué, Robert L. Schaufele, Emmanuel Roilides, Mahmoud A. Ghannoum, Thomas J. Walsh,
... in immunosuppressed patients. In previous studies, the saponin CAY-1 from cayenne pepper (Capsicum frutescens), has shown ... therefore studied the in vitro antifungal activity of CAY-1 against non-germinating conidia and hyphae of ... method to assess the growth inhibitory activities of CAY-1 against conidia (CLSI document M38-A) and ... method) to investigate the metabolic inhibitory activity of CAY-1 against hyphae. The minimal inhibitory concentrations (complete visual growth inhibition) of CAY-1 against non-germinating conidia ranged from 10– ...
Tópico(s): Nail Diseases and Treatments
2008 - Oxford University Press | Medical Mycology
Anthony J. De Lucca, John M. Bland, Stephen M. Boué, C. B. Vigo, Thomas E. Cleveland, Thomas J. Walsh,
<i>Background:</i> CAY-1 is a fungicidal saponin from cayenne pepper whose mode of action differs from amphotericin B (AB) and itraconazole (IT). This work determined CAY-1 synergism with AB or IT. <i>Methods:</i> CAY-1 was purified and used in checkerboard microdilution studies where CAY-1 and AB or IT were mixed with ... and 48 h<i>. </i><i>Results:</i> CAY-1 had predominantly additive-synergistic interaction with AB ... i> NG and G conidia. Excellent synergy between CAY-1 and AB occurred at 24 and 48 ...
Tópico(s): Fungal Plant Pathogen Control
2006 - Karger Publishers | Chemotherapy
Susanne Schmidt, William C. Dennison, Gordon J. Moss, George R. Stewart,
Coral cays form part of the Australian Great Barrier Reef. Coral cays with high densities of seabirds are areas of ... in which N sources are utilised by coral cay plants, N is distributed within the cay, and whether or not seabird-derived N moves from cay to surrounding marine environments were investigated. We used ... plants at these sites. The aquifer under the cay receives seabird-derived N leached from the cay and has high concentrations of 15N-enriched NO3- ( ...
Tópico(s): Marine animal studies overview
2004 - CSIRO Publishing | Functional Plant Biology
John B. Iverson, Kirsten Hines, Jennifer M. Valiulis,
The nesting ecology of the Allen Cays rock iguana was studied on Leaf Cay and Southwest Allen's Cay (= U Cay) in the northern Exuma Islands, Bahamas, during 2001 ... reasons timing was seven days earlier on U Cay than on Leaf Cay. Nest burrows averaged 149 cm in length and ... reviewed for comparison with that of the Allen Cays rock iguana. Comparisons of these data with those ...
Tópico(s): Bird parasitology and diseases
2004 - Illinois Natural History Survey | Herpetological Monographs
Iliana Chollett, George W. Stoyle, Steve Box,
Honduran Miskito Cays: among the last unexplored reef systems in the CaribbeanMany Caribbean reef systems have been studied over the past ... and research.An exception is the Honduran Miskito Cays, an archipelago of 49 cays and about 750 km 2 of consolidated shallow ... never been tourist diving operations in the Miskito Cays.This area is, however, well known by locals ... communities have now turned attention towards the Miskito Cays.Under proposed reforms, industrial fishing would be excluded from the waters around the Cays with the establishment of an area for the ...
Tópico(s): Botany and Geology in Latin America and Caribbean
2013 - Springer Science+Business Media | Coral Reefs
Edward Dobson, Ademir Hujdurović, Klavdija Kutnar, Joy Morris,
An automorphism $$\alpha $$ of a Cayley graph $$\mathrm{Cay}(G,S)$$ of a group G with connection ... for every edge $$(g,gs)\in E(\mathrm{Cay}(G,S))$$ . If every color-preserving automorphism of $$\mathrm{Cay}(G,S)$$ is also affine, then $$\mathrm{Cay}(G,S)$$ is a Cayley color automorphism (CCA) graph. If every Cayley graph $$\mathrm{Cay}(G,S)$$ is a CCA graph, then G ... F_{21}$$ . We then show that if $$\mathrm{Cay}(G,S)$$ is a non-CCA graph of ... 21}$$ for some CCA group H, and $$\mathrm{Cay}(G,S) = \mathrm{Cay}(H,T)\mathbin {\square }\Gamma $$ .
Tópico(s): Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Research
2016 - Springer Science+Business Media | Journal of Algebraic Combinatorics
Başar Altınterim, Ekrem Öztürk, Filiz Kutluyer, Önder Aksu,
Çalışmada yeşil çay yağının (Camellia sinensis) gökkuşağı alabalığının (Oncorhynchus mykiss) büyüme oranı, yemden yararlanma ve hematolojik parametreleri üzerindeki etkilerinin belirlenmesi için ... Balıklar (76.25±2.75 g) masere yeşil çay yağının farklı konsantrasyonları (%0.25, %0.5, %1. ... ve bazı kan parametreleri gökkuşağı alabalığında belirlenmiştir. Yeşil çay yağı ile 42 günlük besleme sonunda yapılan analizlerde ... göre artış gösterdiği tespit edilmiştir. Bununla birlikte yeşil çay yağı uygulanan grupların megakaryositlerini uyardığı (PLC-R seviyesinde ...
Tópico(s): Aquaculture disease management and microbiota
2018 - | Atatürk Üniversitesi Veteriner Bilimleri Dergisi
Kristen Mundie Richardson, John B. Iverson, Carolyn M. Kurle,
... presence/absence of seabirds and invasive species) on cays in the Bahamas to study whether interisland variations in food resources contributed to gigantism in Allen Cays Rock Iguanas (Cyclura cychlura inornata). We analyzed the ... not, and (2) size differences in iguanas among cays were due to either (a) supplemental food availability ... Food web components from the seabird island (Allen Cay) had 5-9‰ higher δ15N values than those on the other cays and Allen Cay plants contained nearly two times more nitrogen. Bayesian ...
Tópico(s): Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
2019 - Springer Science+Business Media | Oecologia
Qingsong Yang, Sizhen Li, Zixiu Zhou, Min Fu, Xiaodong Yang, Kuanxiao Hao, Yating Liu,
... effects of histone deacetylase 6 (HDAC6) inhibitor Cay10603 (Cay) on high glucose (HG)-stimulated human retinal pigment ... was upregulated in HG-stimulated ARPE-19 cells.Cay treatment caused a decrease in intracellular reactive oxygen ... dismutase (SOD) and catalase (CAT) after treatment with Cay.Besides, Cay decreased the levels of tumor necrosis factor-α ( ... 1) in supernatant.Meanwhile, the apoptotic rate in Cay-treated ARPE-19 cells notably reduced, coupled with ... cleaved caspase-3 and cleaved caspase-9 expression.Cay decreased the expression of phospho (p)-NF-κB ...
Tópico(s): NF-κB Signaling Pathways
2020 - AEPress | General Physiology and Biophysics
The seven sand cays of Alacrán Reef occur on the leeward side of this nearly filled atoll. They are composed of fine to ... sand, finer on the lee side of the cay; and coral-stick gravel ramparts occur on two islands facing heaviest surf. Cays are of five recognizable types, four of which form an evolutionary sequence. The most mature cays have a central vegetated flat with a mildly ... leeward. A review of the literature on carbonate cays reveals their similarity in many respects to other carbonate cays in the tropics.
Tópico(s): Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
1967 - University of Chicago Press | The Journal of Geology
RALPH A. DALLA BETTA, M. Boudart,
... groups with deuterium gas was studied on H–CaY and Pt/H–CaY zeolites using quantitative infrared spectroscopy to follow the ... hydroxyl band. The rate of exchange on H–CaY is first order between 500 and 700 K ... with time. The exchange rate on Pt/H–CaY was 105 faster than that on H–CaY alone. In both cases, however, the exchange mechanism ...
Tópico(s): Catalysis and Oxidation Reactions
1976 - Royal Society of Chemistry | Journal of the Chemical Society Faraday Transactions 1 Physical Chemistry in Condensed Phases
Masaya Nakagawa, Shinjiro Kobayashi, Ikuko Kimura, Masayasu Kimura,
... and bladder muscles in genetically obese diabetic KK-CAy and alloxan-diabetic ddY mice was compared with that in prediabetic KK-CAy and normal ddY mice, because the muscles of the diabetic KK-CAy mice had morphological abnormalities, such as atrophy, disappearance ... ventricle and bladder muscles from the prediabetic KK-CAy mice were significantly 7.7, 98.3, and ... in the gastrocnemius muscles of the diabetic KK-CAy mice and the alloxan-diabetic mice was 19. ... 0 and 5.5% greater in the KK-CAy and the alloxan-mice. The Fe content of ...
Tópico(s): Folate and B Vitamins Research
1989 - Japan Endocrine Society | Endocrinologia Japonica
Anthony J. De Lucca, John M. Bland, C. B. Vigo, Melanie T. Cushion, Claude P. Selitrennikoff, J. Peter, Thomas J. Walsh,
... glycosides with surface active properties. A steroidal saponin, CAY-1, with a molecular weight of 1243·35 ... commercially available dry, ground fruit of Capsicum frutescens. CAY-1 was shown to be a potent fungicide ... by the test medium used. In vitro assays, CAY-1 was effective against Pneumocystis carinii (IC50: 9· ... µM) and Candida albicans (IC90: 6·2 µM). CAY-1 had no effect on the viability of ... agglomerans, Bacillus subtilis, Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus. CAY-1 was not cytotoxic to A 549 lung ...
Tópico(s): Ginseng Biological Effects and Applications
2002 - Oxford University Press | Medical Mycology
Abstract Coral cays are low-lying (typically 2 mm grain size) and the relative abundances of foraminifera and coral grains. Gravelly ... margins, whereas facies on and around the leeward cay are dominated by the sand-size tests of ... they live in greatest abundance, and on the cay shorelines, where their tests are deposited and comprise ... foraminifera-rich facies adjacent to and on the cay, disjunct from the source zones, as well as ... transport from the outer reef flat to the cay must be relatively quick. These short temporal links ...
Tópico(s): Marine and fisheries research
2014 - Society for Sedimentary Geology | Journal of Sedimentary Research
... enjoying continual and timely good luck. Any Bramble Cay melomys (Melomys rubicola; WebFigure 1) or Lord Howe ... oceanic island each – could tell you that. Bramble Cay is a flat, Australian island in the Torres ... be when your luck runs out. Though Bramble Cay is among the first places in the world ... coast, by, ironically, an invasion of the Bramble Cay melomys’ cousin, the black rat (Rattus rattus). Descendants ... air, could not be more different from Bramble Cay. Nor could the fate of the few stick ... differ more greatly from that of the Bramble Cay melomys. In 1964, climbers tantalizingly found dead specimens ...
Tópico(s): Human-Animal Interaction Studies
2016 - Wiley | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
Turan Yüksek, Vagıf Atamov, Kevser TÜRÜT,
... çok büyük bir öneme sahiptir. Bu çalışmada, demlenmiş çay atığı ve evsel yemek atıkları ile beslemenin Kırmızı ... en yüksek solucan sayısı ve ağırlığına % 50 demlenmiş çay atığı + % 50 inek gübresi besi ortamı karışımından elde ... en yüksek azot değerine (% 2,16) % 100 demlenmiş çay atığından elde edilen solucan gübresinde, en yüksek fosfor, ... bakır, demir, magnezyum ve pH değerlerine % 50 demlenmiş çay atığı + % 50 inek gübresinden elde edilen solucan gübresinde, en yüksek mangan değerine % 40 demlenmiş çay atığı + % 40 yemek atığı + % 20 inek gübresinden elde ...
Tópico(s): Urban Agriculture and Sustainability
2019 - Turkish Online Journal of Qualitative Inquiry (TOJQI) | Journal of Anatolian Environmental and Animal Sciences