Adult western flower thrips, Frankliniella occidentalis (Pergande) (Thysanoptera: Thripidae), were most abundant on flower clusters of apple, Malus × domestica Borkhausen, from king bloom to full bloom. Low numbers of thrips remained on the clusters after petal fall as fruit enlarged. Thrips larvae peaked in numbers after densities of adults had peaked, usually by petal fall. Two staining proce...

Background:  Renal transplantation is the best choose in the end stage renal disease (ESRD), and acute rejection and graft dysfunction remain major challenges in the worldwide, even with the advent of new immunosuppressive drugs. The novel cell-based anti-rejection treatments have been studied by using different stem cell sources. In this study, transplantation of autologous-bone-marrow-derive...

Bloom filters are a well known data-structure that supports approximate set membership queries that report no false negatives. Each element in the universe represented by the bloom filter is associated with k random bits in the structure. Traditional bloom filters, therefore, require k non-local memory operations to insert an element or perform a lookups. For very large bloom filters, these k l...

background: preliminary clinical trials showed that ginger improved lipid profile in type 2 diabetes patients (t2d). this trial was carried out to determine the effect of ginger on blood lipid and lipoproteins in t2d. methods: this is a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial on 88 t2d conducted in. the patients were randomly divided into two groups of ginger (gg) and placebo (pg), t...

This is the first high temporal-resolution study in Disko Bay covering population dynamics, grazing, reproduction, and biochemical composition of 3 dominating copepod species (Calanus finmarchicus, C. glacialis and C. hyperboreus) from late winter to midsummer in 2008. C. finmarchicus and C. glacialis ascended to the surface layer at the onset of the spring phytoplankton bloom, followed by C. h...

background: leishmaniasis is a parasitic infection that may lead to a variety of manifestations. in iran, cutaneous leishmaniasis (cl) has a high prevalence. there are many treatment modalities for cl. the use of oral terbinafine in the treatment of cl has recently been considered. the aim of this study was to compare combination of oral terbinafine plus cryotherapy versus systemic me-glumine a...

in this study, we investigated the effect of savory (satureja hortensis) essential oil, garlic(allium sativum) powder, and garlic aqueous extract on fungal load of poultry feed. tothis end, savory essential oil and garlic aqueous extract each amounting 62.5, 125, and250 μl/ml and mg/ml, respectively, per kilogram of feed and garlic powder amounting2.5, 5, and 10 g/kg of feed were used. one and ...

The study was conducted to elucidate the possibility that a shift in color preferences of adults of the apple blossom beetle, Epicometis hirta, occurs sometime after the end of overwintering and the onset blooming of Prunus spp. trees and between the termination of blooming and the death of the adults. Such information is needed to choose the best color of the traps used for the detection, moni...