Haya Rashed Abdullah

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What are the possible reasons for a questionable proficiency testing result in food microbiology (enumeration)?

I have analyzed PT a sample from an external PT provider, the matrix was skimmed milk powder (lyophilized), and the required tests were: aerobic plate count, Enterobacteriaceae count, Coliforms...

22 August 2021 1,797 2 View

Picofilm use in alcohol preserved and formalin fixed museum specimens

I have been trying different types of paper to use in labels for ethanol and formalin preserved museum specimens. My mini-experiment included Picofilm, Tyvek, 100% cotton, acid-free (90 and 150...

09 August 2016 449 2 View

Fixation of animal specimens?

I was trying to find a method to fix animal specimens, specifically reptiles and small mammals, in a fixative other than formalin; that is to avoid its harmful effects on health and environment...

04 August 2016 9,561 12 View

Rodent mass datasets discrepancies

I have been looking at weight values for rodents in the family muridae, specifically subfamilies: gerbillinae and deomyinae. I found some considerable discrepancies in the values for the same...

28 June 2016 2,018 5 View

Hairy/naked-footed rodents?

I am interested in learning the status of the following species with regards to the hairiness of the bottom side of their hind feet. The references I cite below are silent on this issue (for these...

28 June 2016 8,748 7 View

Sandy substrate

I need a discerption of the habitats in which the following species live; specifically whether they live on a loose sandy substrate or not. I’ve already looked (in vain) for information in the...

28 June 2016 7,777 2 View

Somewhat hairy-footed rodents?

I need to code the hairy-footedness of a large number of rodents for a statistical analysis. In most cases it is simple enough to code hairy-footed species as 1 and naked footed ones as 0;...

28 June 2016 1,031 3 View