The article presents recommendations for assessing the heat and energy efficiency of a design solution for a building envelope based on the calculation of energy costs during typical periods of time.The recommendations are based on the Filter Power Wire analysis of defects in thermal protection of building envelopes during design and construction,
Optimization of the 16S rRNA sequencing analysis pipeline for studying in vitro communities of gut commensals
Summary: While microbial communities inhabit a wide variety of complex natural environments, in vitro culturing enables highly controlled conditions and high-throughput interrogation for generating mechanistic insights.In vitro assemblies of gut commensals have recently been introduced as models for Fanny Packs / Bum Bags the intestinal microbiota,
Evaluation of Serodiagnostic Assays for Mycobacterium bovis Infection in Elk, White-Tailed Deer, and Reindeer in the United States
In 2011, the United States Department of Agriculture conducted a project in which elk (Cervus elaphus spp.), white-tailed deer (WTD) (Odocoileus virginianus), Accessories and reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) were evaluated by the single cervical tuberculin test (SCT), comparative cervical tuberculin test (CCT), and serologic tests.The rapid antibody de
EDITORIAL: Captive to a political elite
This edition of Pacific Journalism Review is themed on the Media and Democracy in the South Pacific symposium held in Suva in September 2012.Hosted by the University of VIT C 500MG ORANGE the South Pacific, the conference has provided most of the core papers for this issue, marking close to two decades of an independent research role in the region