American elm trees, Ulmus americana L., were sprayed with methoxychlor by helicopter or mist blower, and twig crotches were collected from sprayed trees for bio­ assay of Scolytus multistriatus (Marsham) and GLC as­ say. Correlations established between the 2 assays were Dutch elm disease, caused by the fungus Cerato­ cystis ulmi (Buisman) C. Moreau, is a serious shade tree problem in the Unite...

Studies were conducted in 1994, 1995, and 1997 to determine the effect of assisting natural wind pollination using an air blower on yield and fruit characteristics of three tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.) cultivars. Tomato plants and flowers in the air blower–assisted treatment were vigorously vibrated at midday every other day on sunny days for 4 weeks. Plants and flowers in the control...

One of the main challenges posed recently on pellet launcher systems in fusion-oriented plasma physics is the control of the plasma edge region. Strong energy bursts ejected from the plasma due to edge localized modes (ELMs) can form a severe threat for in-vessel components but can be mitigated by sufficiently frequent triggering of the underlying instabilities using hydrogen isotope pellet inj...

The civil False Claims Act (FCA) imposes harsh penalties against parties who misappropriate federal funds. The statute's qui tam whistle-blower provisions create strong financial incentives for private individuals to bring and pursue FCA cases against health providers on the government's behalf--even where government attorneys decline to intervene. FCA cases where the government declined to int...

We analyse here the vaccine model with cross-immunity proposed by Porco and Blower [1]. Porco and Blower [1] show that vaccination can shift the competitive balance in favour of a strain that, without vaccination, would be out-competed and that vaccination can also promote coexistence of different strains, something that normally is not expected [2]. Their results have been mainly obtained thro...

Dissolved oxygen (DO) is considered as one of the most important aspect of aquaculture. It is needed by fish to respire and perform metabolic activities. Thus low levels of dissolved oxygen are often linked to fish kill incidents. On the other hand, optimum levels can result to good growth, thus result to high production yield. To increase pond production it is necessary to control dissolved ox...

An aerodynamic calibration device called ICARE is briefly described. ICARE is currently being used at the Nuclear Research Center of Saclay in France for the certification of instruments employed in measurement of artificial radioactive particulate airborne contamination. ICARE is essentially a blower. Aerosols calibrated in size and labelled with 137Cs or 239Pu are injected in the mainstream o...