Emergency and wilderness medicine expert. Born Jan 4, 1951, in Plainfield, NJ, USA, he died of brain cancer on June 23, 2021, Los Altos, CA, aged 70 years. As an early pioneer medicine, Paul Auerbach regularly encountered gaps the field, including insufficient academic resources or collaborating organisations. Yet “he was kind man who wasn’t just going to identify gaps”, said Andra Blomkalns, R...

The European cherry fruit fly, Rhagoletis cerasi (L.) (Diptera: Tephritidae), is the most important pest of sweet cherries in Europe. The aim of our experiments was to develop a new, cost-efficient, lead chromate-free and more eco-friendly trap for monitoring and mass trapping of R. cerasi. Five different-colored yellow panels and three different trap shapes were compared to a standard Rebell(®...

Two insecticide formulations containing the naturalyte insecticide spinosad, GF-120 Fruit Fly Bait and SpinTor 2 SC, were compared for control of apple maggot, Rhagoletis pomonella (Walsh), and blueberry maggot, Rhagoletis mendax Curran. In 2002 and 2003, larval infestation in blueberries and apples was significantly lower in plots treated with GF-120 (spinosad bait) or SpinTor than in untreate...

INTRODUCTION Forest soils are entities within themselves, selforganized and highly resilient over time. The transfer of energy bound in carbon (C) molecules drives the organization and functions of this biological system (Fisher and Binkley, 2000; Paul and Clark, 1996). Photosynthetic organisms reduce atmospheric C and store energy from solar radiation in the formation of complex C molecules. T...

Color becomes the most sensitive part of any commodity not only for its appeal but also it enhances consumer acceptability. The demand for natural colours is increasing day by day because of awareness of positive health benefit out of natural compounds (Chattopadhyay et al., 2008). The organic colour stuffs are obtained from roots, stems, leaves, barks, flowers and berries of various plants and...

environmental health physician-scientist and NIEHS director from 1966 to 1971, passed away in Laguna Beach, California. A pathologist by training, Kotin received his MD in 1939 from the University of Illinois, and later served in the U.S. Army Medical Corps during World War II, followed by private practice and appointments at Los Angeles County Hospital and the University of Southern California...

On September 2, 2015, the image of three-year-old Syrian boy, Aylan Kurdi, lying face down on a Turkish beach sparked an international effort to aid refugees. Donations to charitable organizations surged, dwarfing the assistance to refugees since the violence in Syria began in 2011. Kurdi, however, was not the only person to drown that day in the Aegean Sea: Both his five-year-old brother and h...