The efficacy of methyl bromide fumigations in mills (6 mills) was compared to heat treatments (3 mills), sulfuryl fluoride (ProFume®) (4 mills) and phosphine (ECO2FUME®), heat and carbon dioxide combination treatment (2 mills). The efficacy of treatments was estimated in three ways: Tribolium castaneum adults and eggs in vials during treatment, pheromone traps and rebolt sifter tailings counts....

Maya civilization developed in Mesoamerica and encompassed the Yucatan Peninsula, Guatemala, Belize, part of the Mexican states of Tabasco and Chiapas, and the western parts of Honduras and El Salvador. This civilization persisted approximately 3,000 years and was one of the most advanced of its time, possessing the only known full writing system at the time, as well as art, sophisticated archi...

Recent estimates on global morbidity and mortality caused by Leptospirosis point to one million cases and almost 60,000 deaths a year worldwide, especially in resource poor countries. We analyzed how a commensal probiotic immunomodulator, Lactobacillus plantarum, affects Leptospira interrogans pathogenesis in a murine model of sub-lethal leptospirosis. We found that repeated oral pre-treatment ...

OBJECTIVES The EndoPAT method has been used as a non-invasive method for assessing endothelial function in several non-pregnant populations. We investigated its possible use in assessing endothelial dysfunction in pre-eclampsia. METHODS Two hundred and fifteen participants were recruited and grouped as pre-eclamptic cases (105) and normotensive controls (110). Endothelial function and arteria...

in order to evaluate the effect of water deficit stress on agronomic and morpho-physiological traits in eight populations of the triticum urartu species an experiment was experiment was conducted using a split plot design based on a randomized complete block design with three replications at research station of faculty of agriculture, tabriz university in 2010-2011. analysis of variance indicat...

differentiation among populations of the iranian teucrium polium l.was analyzed on the basis of morphological and phytochemical variability, to evaluate the level and distribution of diversity among four distant populations from arid, semi-arid, and sub-humid regions of fars province. morphological analysis included 11 characters related to the plant, leaf, and stem morphology. analyses of vari...

Question: Host races of phytophagous insects originate when a population adapts to a novel resource (host) while other populations remain resident on their ancestral host. The derived and ancestral host race populations will be subject to unequal selection intensity and genetic drift. Is this asymmetry responsible for asymmetric reproductive isolation observed in some populations? Hypothesis: U...

Introduction Hematologic malignancies (HM) represent the most common neoplasms in childhood. Despite improved overall survival rates, they are still a major contributor to cancer death in children. Aims To determine the proportion of children with HM in pediatric palliative care (PPC) and to identify the clinical characteristics and symptoms in comparison to children with extracranial solid t...