HISTOMORPHOLOGY AND IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY OF A CONGENITAL NEPHROMEGALY DEMONSTRATE CONCURRENT FEATURES OF HERITABLE AND ACQUIRED CYSTIC NEPHROPATHIES IN A GIRGENTANA GOAT (CAPRA FALCONERI)

Histomorphology and Immunohistochemistry of a Congenital Nephromegaly Demonstrate Concurrent Features of Heritable and Acquired Cystic Nephropathies in a Girgentana Goat (Capra falconeri)

Polycystic kidney diseases (PKD) represent frequent congenital and adult nephropathies in humans and domestic animals.This Eye Primer report illustrates an uncommon state of congenital PKD in a girgentana goat (Capra falconeri).A stillborn female goat kid was submitted for postmortem examination and underwent macroscopic and microscopic examination

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Experimental Determination of the Static Equivalent Pressures of Detonative Explosions of Cyclohexane/O2/N2-Mixtures in Long and Short Pipes (part 1of 3)

In the past 5 years the Safety Engineering Group of BASF had determined the static equivalent pressures (pstata) of the eight detonative pressure scenarios which explosive gas mixtures can exhibit in long and in short pipes.More precisely, for different combustibles the pstat-values of the corresponding Shotoh ternary mixtures combustible/O2/N2 wer

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Conditionally helpful? The influence of person-, situation-, and device-specific factors on maternal smartphone use for stress coping and on coping effectiveness

Smartphones are omnipresent in the daily lives OMEGA 3.6.9 of parents and provide access to multiple resources in stressful situations.Thus, smartphones might be valuable coping tools.Previous research has mostly focused on the negative effects of parental phone use.In the present study, we investigated how mothers use smartphones for coping with s

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