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The use of sub-therapeutic concentrations of anti-microbial agents in animal feed has contributed to theproductivity of the U.S. meat and dairy industries by preventing infectious diseases, by decreasing theamount of feed required and by increasing the rate of animal weight gain. However, failure to observerecommended practices of drug withdrawal can result in concentrations of antibiotic residue ...

The ready-to-assemble (RTA) construction system is a new method for assembling wood structuresbuilt from the following engineered wood products: parallel strand lumber (PSL), laminated strandlumber (LSL), and laminated veneer lumber (LVL). The RTA system is designed for rapid assemblyby small crews of unskilled labor using common hand tools. The design of the RTA systemincorporates engineered w ...

Equine infectious anemia virus (EIAV) is a retrovirus that causes a chronic infection in horses. In theabsence of a vaccine, the control of this disease depends on the diagnosis and elimination of infectedhorses. Currently approved diagnostic procedures utilize agar gel diffusion (AGID), or enzyme-linkedimmunosorbant (ELISA) methodologies to detect antibodies against the virus in horse sera as e ...

This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project proposes to field test the hypothesis thatpopulations of Southern Pine Beetle (SPB), the single most important insect pest of southern pineforests, can be reduced by supplying food to their hymenopterous parasitoids (a new technique for theaugmentation of biological control). We will measure changes in population abundance of both SPBand the ...

This Phase I project is aimed at the development of a new ultrasonic non-destructive evaluation (NDE)system capable of detecting both bacterially infected green oak lumber ("wetwood") prior to kilndrying, and internal defects (checking, honeycomb) in dried hardwood. Both wetwood and honeycombare severe problems in the domestic hardwood industry, resulting in up to 10% production loss. Wehave app ...

Creosote and coal-tar pollution of soils at former wood-preserving sites represents a considerable publichealth hazard. This is due primarily to the acute toxicity and genotoxicity of polycyclic aromatichydrocarbons (PAHs) in creosote and coal-tar. The majority of genotoxic effects are caused by high-molecular-weight PAH's (6 or more conjugated benzene rings).Bioremediation - the detoxification ...

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Bacillus thuringiensis crystal proteins are highly toxic to certain species of lepidopteran insects but are much less toxic to other lepidoteran species and usually have significantly lower toxicity to non-lepidopteran species. In addition, some lepidopteran species that initially were susceptible to Bacillus thuringiensis have developed resistance. Understanding the molecular mechanism for th ...