Remote sensing as an aid to route evaluation for relocated Louisiana Highway 1

Aerial photography in the form of color infrared and color positive transparencies was used as an aid for evaluation of the route proposed for relocated Louisiana Highway 1, between LaRose and Golden Meadows, in South Louisiana

Individual monitoring of immune responses in rainbow trout after cohabitation and intraperitoneal injection challenge with Yersinia ruckeri

Acknowledgements This work was funded by the National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research (NC3Rs, grant G1100675). The authors are grateful to the aquarium staff at the University of Aberdeen (Karen Massie) and Dr David Smail at Marine Scotland for valuable discussion during the establishment of the experimental design.Peer reviewedPostprin

Calendar Curiosa

What do Hallowe\u27en (OCT 31) and Christmas (DEC 25) have in common beside both being festivals, one commemorating death and the other birth? I\u27ll give you the answers at the end of this article, but the way the dates are expressed inside the parentheses is a hint

The Alphabet and the Golden Ratio

Place the letters of the English alphabet (capitals) in a row and count five letters inward from either end. You will arrive at letters which are quite similar to their neighbors (on their inside), E to F and V to U. There is one other adjacent pair of letters resembling each other -- M and N. Because M and N mark the center of the alphabet, the three couples EF-MN-UV induce a natural pairing of the entire alphabet

Presidents, Pairs and Primes

Which of the two major presidential candidates will be elected on the first 2\u27s Day in November of the year 2000, and take office on the 20th day of the following year? Linguistically and numerically, Bush seems to have a definite edge. His last name begins with B, the second letter of the alphabet, and if elected he would be the second George Bush to serve

Square and Triangular Number-Names

In the mathematics of sets the cardinality of a collection of object is defined to be the number of objects in the collection, and is denoted by placing vertical bars around a listing of that collection. Following that convention we write !FOUR! = 4 or !SEVEN! = 5