Loss of biodiversity and degradation of ecosystem services from agricultural lands remain important challenges in the United States despite decades of spending on natural resource management. To date, conservation investment has emphasized engineering practices or vegetative strategies centered on monocultural plantings of nonnative plants, largely excluding native species from cropland. In a c...

BACKGROUND Tapering strips can be used for the gradual reduction of the dose of certain types of drugs such as antidepressants and benzodiazepines. The strips contain a slightly lower dose on each consecutive day. This prevents the withdrawal symptoms still experienced by too many patients and lowers the risk of relapse. AIM To make tapering strips of antidepressant drugs available for patien...

Layered alloys and composite materials have become an increasingly popular in industrial development. The roll bonding (RB) process, as a solid phase method of bonding, has been widely used in manufacturing large layered strips. In this study, aluminum alloy (AA 5083) strips were roll bonded at warm and cold temperatures. The effects of the rolling parameters such as the amount of plastic deform...

Rats were rendered hypertensive by two different technics. Isometric tensions developed by strips of aorta from these rats, when exposed to various concentrations of epinephrine and levarterenol, were compared with those developed by aortic strips from normotensive controls. Almost all of the aortic strips from the DCA-salt hypertensive rats responded with smaller contraction tensions to both p...

Ag permittivity (dielectric function) in coupled strips is different from bulk and has been studied for strips of various dimensions and surface roughness. Arrays of such paired strips exhibit the properties of metamagnetics. The surface roughness does not affect the Ag dielectric function, although it does increase the loss at the plasmon resonances of the coupled strips. The size effect in th...

Two new reagent strips have recently been introduced for blood glucose measurement by direct visual reading. Results obtained with these strips (Glucostix and Hypogard GA) were compared with those obtained using other commonly employed strips (BM-Test-Glycemie 1-44 and Visidex II) and a standard laboratory method. Blood glucose estimations were performed on samples of venous blood drawn from 12...

AIMS (1) To model the process of use and usability of pH strips (2) to identify, through simulation studies, the likelihood of misreading pH strips, and to assess professional's acceptance, trust and perceived usability of pH strips. METHODS This study was undertaken in four phases and used a mixed method approach (an audit, a semi-structured interview, a survey and simulation study). The thr...

AIM To characterize the numbers of reagent strips dispensed for self-monitoring of blood glucose to patients with Type 2 diabetes in Tayside, Scotland, in 1993, 1999 and 2009. METHODS A diabetes clinical information system in Tayside, record-linked to electronic dispensed prescribing records, was used to collate all dispensed prescribing records for three cross-sectional samples of patients w...

Production of thin steel strips with 0.18-0.26 mm thickness is about 0.75 of annual production of the two stand reversing cold mill, while its efficiency is 60%. This is due to the fact that after montaging the grinded work rolls, rolling thin steel strips (with thicknesses less than 0.18 millimeters) is unavailable. Initially, unsuitable surface roughness, the friction between rolls and the st...