A Systematic Review: Assessment of the Metabolomic Profile and Anti-Nutritional Factors of as a Feed Additive for Ruminants.

is a high-value crop that can be cultivated for ruminant's feed and medicinal purposes. The demand for Cannabis and Cannabis products has increased since the beginning of 21st century. The increase in the production cost of high-protein feeds such as lucerne has led to an urgent need to investigate alternative high-protein sources.

Molecular epidemiology of multidrug-resistant , and outbreak among neonates in Tembisa hospital, South Africa.

Background: An outbreak of multidrug-resistant infections in a neonatal ward within a tertiary hospital in South Africa resulted in the mortality of 10 patients within six months. In this work, the genomic epidemiology of and the molecular factors mediating this outbreak were investigated.

Methods: Bacterial cultures obtained from clinical samples collected from the infected neonates underwent phenotypic and molecular analyses to determine their species, sensitivity to antibiotics, production of carbapenemases, complete resistance genes profile, clonality, epidemiology, and evolutionary relationships.

Building a brighter future for Africa with the African Light Source.

Africa is the only habitable continent that is not yet host to a light source - an important tool across disciplines. Scientists from the Executive Committee of the African Light Source Foundation discuss work towards building an advanced light source in Africa, and what remains to be done.

Three dimensional vanadium pentoxide/graphene foam composite as positive electrode for high performance asymmetric electrochemical supercapacitor.

The electrochemical performance of hydrothermal synthesized three dimensional (3D) orthorhombic vanadium pentoxide (VO) nanosheets and vanadium pentoxide/graphene foam (VO/GF) composites at different mass loading of GF were successfully studied. The optimized VO/GF-150 mg composite provided a high specific capacity of 73 mA h g, which was much higher than that the pristine VO (60 mA h g) nanosheets at a specific current of 1 A g. A hybrid capacitor was also fabricated by adopting a carbon-based negative electrode obtained from the pyrolysis of an iron-PANI polymer (C-Fe/PANI) mixture and the 3D VO/GF-150 mg composite as the positive electrode in 6 M KOH electrolyte.

Comparing results of X-ray diffraction, µ-Raman spectroscopy and neutron diffraction when identifying chemical phases in seized nuclear material, during a comparative nuclear forensics exercise.

This work presents the results for identification of chemical phases obtained by several laboratories as a part of an international nuclear forensic round-robin exercise. In this work powder X-ray diffraction (p-XRD) is regarded as the reference technique. Neutron diffraction produced a superior high-angle diffraction pattern relative to p-XRD.

Biomimetic formation of hydroxyapatite investigated by analytical techniques with high resolution.

Morphology, phase and chemical compositions of atmospheric plasma-sprayed (APS) hydroxyapatite (HAp) coatings were investigated by scanning electron microscopy (SEM), X-ray powder diffraction (XRD), proton-induced X-ray emission (PIXE) and Rutherford backscattering spectrometry (RBS). The study involved as-sprayed coatings and coatings incubated in simulated body fluid (rSBF) for up to 56 days. The results obtained using combined contributions from three complementary analytical techniques confirm that secondary Ca-deficient defect hydroxyapatite precipitated by a biomimetic process from the simulated body fluid onto the HAp coating surface after a prolonged induction time.

Decay scheme of 67Ga.

A review of the 67Ga decay data from various evaluations reveals uncertainty as to whether or not there is an electron-capture (EC) branch decaying directly to the ground state of 67Zn. Measurements made at NAC and elsewhere of the intensity of the conversion electrons from the 93 keV transition (extracted from the standardization of 67Ga by coincidence counting techniques), place a fairly stringent restriction on the decay scheme that suggests that the ground-state branch is nonzero. Decay parameter values are proposed that are consistent with available data.