among other things, a paleobotanist and an evolutionary biologist, and he is clearly in his element here as he ranges from the enigmatic origin of the Ginkgo alliance at least 220, and probably 245, million years ago, through its evolutionary radiation to become an important tree in appropriate habitats in temperate regions worldwide, to its subsequent decline in diversity and geographical rang...

Title of Thesis: EVALUATION OF CONSERVATION STRIPS AS A CONSERVATION BIOLOGICAL CONTROL TECHNIQUE ON GOLF COURSES Steven D. Frank, Master of Science, 2003 Thesis directed by: Assistant Professor Paula M. Shrewsbury Department of Entomology Conservation strips combine the conservation biological control tactics of beetle banks and flowering insectary strips. Conservation strips were established ...

Filter strips are strips of herbaceous vegetation planted along agricultural field margins adjacent to streams or wetlands and are designed to intercept sediment, nutrients, and agrichemicals. Roughly 16,000 ha of filter strips have been established in Maryland through the United States Department of Agriculture’s Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program. Filter strips often represent the only ...

The reactivity of vascular smooth muscle in helical strips from femoral arteries of normotensive, spontaneously hypertensive, renal hypertensive, and deoxycorticosterone acetate— (DCA-) hypertensive rats was studied. Spontaneous rhythmic contractions occurred in 25 of the 30 strips from the three groups of hypertensive rats and in only 2 of the 10 strips from normotensive rats. Strips from rena...

BACKGROUND The Accu-Chek Inform glucose monitor is a point-of-care system for testing blood glucose. New test strips, calibrated to deliver glucose plasma-like values, were launched on the market in May 2005. The aim of our study was to perform analytical validation of these new strips. METHODS We compared the new plasma strips with whole blood strips; results for the plasma strips with plasm...

In the U.S., healthcare-associated infections lengthen the average hospital stay by up to 19 days and increase costs by approximately $43,000 per hospitalization [1]. The prevalence of blood contamination of hospital glucose meters has been reported to be 30.2±17.5%; an increase in the number of operators increases the odds of contamination [2]. Blood glucose monitoring devices have been associ...