South Florida Tropicals: Avocado

Pests of Avocado in Florida

The current pest situation on Florida avocado is reviewed. Status of research for pests such as, the Caribbean fruit fly, Anastrepha suspensa, the loopers. Epimeces detexta (Walker), E. matronaria (Guenée), Anacamptodes defectaria (Guenée) and Oxydia vesulia transponens (Walker), the avocado lacebug, Pseudacysta perseae Heat., the avocado miner, Gracillia perseae, avocado leafroller, Caloptilia...

of South Florida

Biometr ic datasets are growing in size with time. Procurement of such datasets and resources for development and evaluation of biometr ic algor ithms is expensive, time consuming and often requires exper tise in systems software. Our goal in this project is to build a cloud-based evaluation system, which can host a common dataset and allow the submission of algor ithms either as source code or...

The acetaminophen experience in south Florida.

Toxicology records of the Dade County Medical Examiner Department were reviewed for the years 1972 to 1981. Any case in which acetaminophen was detected, regardless of the cause of death, was included in the study. Of 95 cases where acetaminophen was detected, no trends were observable in age, sex, or race. Acetaminophen deaths have increased in recent years, probably because of increased marke...

Acute Rheumatic Fever in a South Florida

It has been previously reported that the incidence of acute rheumatic fever (ARF) in South Florida is less than in other metropolitan areas of the United States. It has been suggested that when acute rheumatic fever does occur the morbidity and mortality are significantly decreased. A five-year retrospective study of hospitalized cases revealed 98 episodes of ARF in 95 patients. The clinical ma...

University of South Florida College of Medicine.