Veterinary Surgeons Board of Hong Kong 2018 Newsletter (p13)
Part D: Disciplinary Inquiry
Part D: Disciplinary Inquiry
Coming soon!
Coming soon!
Performance of equipment is assured by 1) contracted preventive maintenance services and 2) regular validation by outcome measurement (list as following).
Membrane filtration of water and culture for heterologous plate count, coliform count, and Pseudomonous aeruginosacount
Microbiological or ATP load on washed items (e.g. cages and water bottles)
Temperature logging
Bioindicator and temperature logging
Bioindicator
CFU count on settle plates, air flow pattern test and HEPA filter leak test (coming soon)
Daily equipment inspection
Please contact Dr. Anthony JAMES (Director), Dr. Claudette GARINGAN (Veterinarian Technician) and Dr. Peter EGUIA (Veterinarian Technician) for veterinary consultations
Mapping the human brain in detail could help to unlock some of its mysteries, but our own brains are such amazingly intricate organs that we’re going to be waiting a while for that to happen. Still, scientists just took an important step towards that goal.
A team has just created a high-definition, 3D picture of something a little smaller – the brain of a fruit fly. Showing every single one of the brain’s 100,000 neurons, it’s the most complete brain map ever created.
…evolutionary biologists no longer need to travel to remote places like the Galápagos to discover their holy grail: speciation, the formation of new and distinct species in the course of evolution. The process is going on right in the very cities where they live and work. (The Guardian)
Study says the date by which we consume a year’s worth of resources is arriving faster.
Humanity is devouring our planet’s resources in increasingly destructive volumes, according to a new study that reveals we have consumed a year’s worth of carbon, food, water, fibre, land and timber in a record 212 days.
As a result, the Earth Overshoot Day – which marks the point at which consumption exceeds the capacity of nature to regenerate – has moved forward two days to 1 August, the earliest date ever recorded.
To maintain our current appetite for resources, we would need the equivalent of 1.7 Earths, according to Global Footprint Network, an international research organisation that makes an annual assessment of how far humankind is falling into ecological debt.
The “vending experiment” is the latest in an ongoing investigation into these birds’ abilities. They are so remarkable that scientists have a special aviary in New Caledonia, where they can keep wild birds for only a few days and test their problem-solving prowess, before releasing them back into the forest (BBC).