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Morphology of the marine egg bearing cyclopoid copepod Oithona similis occurring along the southwest coast of India [Vizhinjam (8º21'56"N; 76º59'39"E), Neendakara (8º57'29"N; 76º31'13"E), Cochin (9º56'16"N; 76º13'55"E) and Calicut (11º13'33"N; 75º46'30"E)] from January to December 2010 at different seasons (pre monsoon, monsoon and post monsoon) were studied. Detailed comparison of the structure of different appendages of O. similis with those already available for the species from Norway, Japan, China, Spain and Russia revealed minute differences in the armature of appendages, number and arrangement of spines, setae of swimming legs and anal laminae. The total length of the specimen collected from all the four stations in the study ranged from 615 to 650μ. The smallest specimens were obtained from Calicut.

A teacher training program involving student teachers, cooperating classroom teachers, and university-employed supervisors, is described; its problems are outlined, and alternatives are suggested. (DS)

Suggests that more research needs to be done on the relationship between psycholinguistic theory and psychodynamic theory as they concern pupil-teacher interaction in solving reading problems. (RB)

Analyzes the social and cognitive rigidity of teachers in grades 3 through 6 compared to the reading achievement of 159 of their students, and reports a significant correlation between low teacher cognitive rigidity and high student reading achievement gains but no significant relationship between social rigidity or combined social and cognitive rigidity and reading achievement gains. Bibliography. (MD)

Diverse marine flora and fauna collected from the southwest coast of India was evaluated for its antimicrobial potential against shrimp Vibrio and multiresistant human pathogens. In total, 47 species of various taxa of marine organisms (29 flora and 18 fauna) were screened for antimicrobial activity. The marine flora includes twenty species of seaweeds, two species of mangroves, four species of cyanobacteria and three species of microalgae. The marine fauna comprises three species of porifera, twelve species of molluscans, one species of sea urchin, one of sea cucumber and one of cnidarian. The organic extractives were tested against five type cultures (Microbial Type Culture Collection) of prominent shrimp Vibrio pathogens, including V. parahaemolyticus, V. vulnificus, V. harveyi, V. alcaligenes and V. alginolyticus, and five multiresistant clinical pathogens: Staphylococcus aureus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Bacillus subtilis, Klebsiella pneumoniae and Staphylococcus epidermidis. Among the marine organisms screened, seaweeds showed a broad spectrum of antibacterial activity. The highly active seaweed Falkenbergia, a heteromorphic sporophyte of Asparagopsis taxiformis (Delile) Trevisan, was evaluated further to purify the active compounds using different chromatographic systems, including reverse phase HPLC and GC-MS. The analysis revealed that the most abundant metabolites are oleic acid (51.33%) followed by n-hexadecanoic acid (42.87%)., A muestras de flora y fauna marina diversas recogidas de la costa suroeste de la India se les evaluó su potencial antimicrobiano frente a Vibrios patógenos de camarón y multirresistentes humanos. En total fueron seleccionadas 47 especies de diferentes taxones de organismos marinos (29 de flora y 18 de fauna) para evaluar la actividad antimicrobiana. La flora marina incluía veinte especies de algas marinas, dos de manglares, cuatro de cianobacterias y tres de microalgas. La fauna marina se componía de tres especies de poríferos, doce de moluscos, una de erizo de mar, una de pepinos de mar y una de cnidario. Los extractos orgánicos se probaron en cinco tipos de cultivos (microbianos, colección de cultivo tipo) de Vibrio patógeno de camarón incluyendo V. parahaemolyticus, V. vulnificus, V. harveyi, V. alcaligenes y V. alginolyticus y cinco patógenos clínicos multirresistentes como Staphylococcus aureus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Bacillus subtilis, Klebsiella pneumoniae y Staphylococcus epidermidis. Entre los organismos marinos examinados, las algas mostraron un amplio espectro de actividad antibacteriana. La gran actividad del alga Falkenbergia, - esporofito heteromórfico de Asparagopsis taxiformis (Delile) Trevisan, se evaluó además mediante la purificación de los compuestos activos por cromatografía de fase inversa incluyendo HPLC y GC-MS. El análisis reveló que los metabolitos más abundantes eran el ácido oleico (51.33%), seguido por el ácido n-hexadecanoico (42.87%).

The examination of literature and art has been one of psychotherapy's most powerful ways of explicating its theories and disseminating its concepts. In this study, I have explored various concepts of family psychotherapy by applying them to three works of imaginative literature, and one work of sculpture: Luigi Pirandello's play, Six Characters in Search of an Author, Franz Kafka's novella, The Metamorphosis, Robinson Jeffers' poem, "The Purse-Seine," and the ancient Roman sculpture, the Laocoon. Ph. D.