The biology and behaviour of the psyllid Diaphorina citri Kuwayama (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Liviidae), the major insect vector of bacteria associated with huanglongbing, have been extensively studied with respect to host preferences, thermal requirements, and responses to visual and chemical volatile stimuli. However, development of the psyllid in relation to the ontogeny of immature citrus ...

Many non-insulin dependent diabetics (NIDDs) on the sulphonylurea chlorpropamide experience intense facial flushing after taking alcohol even in small amounts. This chlorpropamide alcohol flush (CPAF) was first recognized within months of the introduction of the drug in the 1950s [ l ] but, although an alcohol flush occasionally occurs with tolbutamide [ 2 , 31, it has not been reported with ot...

A deterministic model was developed to predict pollutant mass first flush and to utilize it for better design of best management practices (BMPs) that focus on treating the first flush. The model used the kinematic wave equation to calculate flow and mass transport, and erosion equations to calculate pollutant concentrations, which were assumed to be from a short and a long term source. The mod...

Aspirin has been observed to block or attenuate the flush reaction caused by niacin in 90 percent of a group of schizophrenic and nonschizophrenic outpatients. The patients were not treated with tranquilizers or antiinflammatory agents concurrently. The basis for this phenomenon, the blocking of the niacin flush by aspirin, is probably due to inhibition of prostaglandin synthesis by aspirin. In...

Optimal escape theory predicts that animals should balance the costs and benefits of flight. One cost of not fleeing is the ongoing cost of monitoring an approaching predator. We used a phylogenetic meta-analysis to test the general hypothesis that animals should initiate flight soon after they detect a predator-the 'flush early and avoid the rush' hypothesis. We found a large, significant over...

A new packaging method to mount a membrane-based thermal flow sensor, flush with the surface, is presented. Therefore, a specific design for the housing is shown, which is also adaptable to other conditions. It has been experimentally shown that it is important to mount the sensor flush with the surface. In addition, the experimental results are discussed. If a membrane-based thermal flow senso...

A FLUSH command has been used for decades to enforce persistence and ordering of updates in a storage device. The command forces all the data in the volatile buffer of the storage device to non-volatile media to achieve persistency. This lump-sum approach to flushing has two performance consequences. First, it slows down nonvolatile materialization of the writes that actually need to be made du...

Follicle flushing has been proved to be ineffective in polyfollicular in vitro fertilization. To analyze the effect of flushing in monofollicular in vitro fertilization we aspirated and then flushed the follicles in 164 cycles. Total oocyte yield/aspiration was 44.5% in the aspirate, 20.7% in the 1(st) flush, 10.4% in the 2(nd) flush and 4.3% in the 3(rd) flush. By flushing, the total oocyte...

An adaptive scattered data approximation scheme was developed to calibrate the Flush Air Data System (FADS) of a surface vessel. An array of pressure sensors were mounted flush with the deckhouse periphery and the airdata parameters were extracted from the pressure measurements. The developed Galerkin derived selfadaptive greedy function approximation scheme gave reliable and robust surrogates ...

OBJECTIVE Flushing can be defined as a sensation of warmth accompanied by erythema that most commonly is seen on the face and which occurs in episodic attacks. Such a problem can be clinically problematic, since many conditions and drugs can be related to flushing, and while often there appears to be no underlying organic disease, it is important to exclude disorders since they may be life-thre...