BACKGROUND This paper is based on ethnobotanical interviews conducted from 1996-2000 in Trinidad and Tobago with thirty male and female respondents. METHODS A non-experimental validation was conducted on the plants used for urinary problems and diabetes mellitus: This is a preliminary step to establish that the plants used are safe or effective, to help direct clinical trials, and to inform C...

Two watersheds within 1 km of each other in the Central Appalachian mountains of West Virginia have similar management histories and receive 13 kg of N in atmospheric deposition, but NO3 export from one watershed (W4) has increased over the last 30 years, and is now approximately five times greater than NO3 export from the other (W10). We measured net nitrification potentials (NNP) and other la...

The newly defined Frazer Beach Member of the Moon Island Formation is identified widely across Sydney Basin in both outcrop and exploration wells. This thin unit was deposited immediately after extinction Glossopteris flora (defining terrestrial end-Permian event). rests conformably on uppermost Permian coal seam most places. A distinctive granule-microbreccia bed locally represented at base me...

Coffee is a crop of economic importance in Ecuador, grown area 199 215 ha, 38,6% it Canton Jipijapa, located the south province Manabí. here by small farmers, who spend little annually for maintenance plantations. One main constraints getting optimal yields presence weeds, which affect water stress during dry spells, and bring about deficient plant uptake essential nutrients. Weeds are not usua...

Chemoand immunotherapeutic approaches have been used to prevent recurrence of transitional cell carcinoma (TCC), the most common type of superficial bladder cancer (SBC). The bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine for tuberculosis, which consists of an attenuated form of Mycobacterium bovis, is the most commonly used immunotherapeutic agent (Morales et al., 1976). Despite the successful results...