Provision of reproductive health (RH) services is a minimum standard of health care in humanitarian settings; however access to these services is often limited. This systematic review, one component of a global evaluation of RH in humanitarian settings, sought to explore the evidence regarding RH services provided in humanitarian settings and to determine if programs are being evaluated. In add...

This paper reports on the fabrication and characterization of a Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor-Microelectromechanical System (CMOS-MEMS) device with embedded microheater operated at relatively elevated temperatures (40 °C to 80 °C) for the purpose of relative humidity measurement. The sensing principle is based on the change in amplitude of the device due to adsorption or desorption of...

We report a dirhodium paddlewheel compound which has an Rh2(5+) core enveloped by four guanidinate ligands and an axially coordinated bromine atom; Rh2(hpp)4Br crystallizes as a 1-D chain with a Rh-Rh distance of 2.430(3) è and a Rh-Rh bond order of 1.5 (hpp = the anion of 1,3,4,6,7,8-hexahydro-2H-pyrimido[1,2a]pyrimidine).

The physiological role of luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone (LH-RH) in mediating the secretion of gonadotrophins is well established. However, administration of large doses of LH-RH produces a paradoxical anti-fertility effect. Thus, in women, agonists of LH-RH have been shown to inhibit ovulation (Nillius, Bergquist & Wide, 1978) and interfere with corpus luteum function (Casper & Yen, 197...

Understanding how soil respiration (Rs) and its source components respond to climate warming is crucial to improve model prediction of climate-carbon (C) feedback. We conducted a manipulation experiment by warming and clipping in a prairie dominated by invasive winter annual Bromus japonicas in Southern Great Plains, USA. Infrared radiators were used to simulate climate warming by 3 °C and clip...

Strigolactones (SLs) or derivatives thereof have been identified as phytohormones, and shown to act as long-distance shoot-branching inhibitors. In Arabidopsis roots, SLs have been suggested to have a positive effect on root-hair (RH) elongation, mediated via the MAX2 F-box. Two other phytohormones, auxin and ethylene, have been shown to have positive effects on RH elongation. Hence, in the pre...

DURING the past decade there has been a dramatic fall in the incidence and mortality from Rh haemolytic disease (Tovey 1976; Magee, lIarley, Campbell and McClure, 1969-78). This is due to two factors, firstly the appreciable fall in the number of Rh (D) negative women having babies, particularly if they had developed Rh antibodies previously; and secondly the routine administration of anti-D im...