The effects of a rose-flower extract, Rosa damascena, on the mortality rate of Drosophila melanogaster was evaluated in this study. R. damascena is a potent antioxidant that has many therapeutic uses in addition to its perfuming effects. Supplementing Drosophila with this rose extract resulted in a statistically significant decrease in mortality rate in male and female flies. Moreover, the obse...

Cyclically Indecomposable Triple Systems that are Decomposable Martin Grüttmüller Institut für Mathematik, Universität Rostock In this talk, we construct, by using Skolem-type and Rosa-type sequences, cyclically indecomposable two-fold triple systems TS2(v) for all admissible orders. We also investigate exhaustively the cyclically indecomposable triple systems TSλ(v) for λ = 2, v ≤ 33 and λ = 3...

Fecal samples from 155 mantled howling monkeys (Alouatta palliata palliata) examined at Centro Ecologico La Pacifica, Guanacaste Province, Costa Rica, revealed 75 (48%) had parasitic infections. A sampling of nine howling monkeys from Santa Rosa National Park. Costa Rica indicated only one infected animal (11%). Only three of 19 (16%) spider monkeys (Ateles geoffroyi) also from Santa Rosa were ...