Jiejie Li, Jessica L. Henty-Ridilla, Shanjin Huang, Xia Wang, Laurent Blanchoin, and Christopher J. Staiger Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907-2064 b Institut de Recherches en Technologie et Sciences pour le Vivant, Laboratoire de Physiologie Cellulaire and Végétale, Commissariat á l’Energie Atomique/Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique/I...

Oestrus ovis larvae are obligatory parasites of the nasal and sinus cavities of sheep and goats. In the temperate climate of western Europe, fly attacks occur between May and October and the first stage larvae arrest their development within the host between October and February. Oestrosis clinical signs such as nasal discharge and sneezing are well known by sheep breeders in southwest France. ...

The temporal variability of nitrate transport was monitored continuously in a large agricultural catchment, the 1110km(2) Save catchment in south-west France, from January 2007 to June 2009. The overall aim was to analyse the temporal transport of nitrate through hydrological response during flood events in the catchment. Nitrate loads and hysteresis were also analysed and the relationships bet...

IN EARLY 2003, 2 REBEL MOVEments (the Sudanese Liberation Army and the Justice and Equality Movement) launched an insurgency against the rule of Khartoum and the government of Sudan, and Janjaweed tribal militias have responded with decisive counteroffensives. Militia attacks have been blamed by refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) for indiscriminate killings, rape, abduction, cattl...

Corpo3:ate Social Reporting from a Theoretical • Concept to Regular Business Information ? Some thoughts on recent developments in Germany The paper reviews European developments in corporate social reporting, with special emphasis on the West German experience. Approaches to social reporting being used by German businesses are described, and results of an extensive survey on socially relevant ...

Women of African descent have a high prevalence of diseases caused by insulin resistance. To positively impact cardiometabolic health in Black women, effective screening tests for insulin resistance must be identified. Recently, the TG/HDL-C ratio has been recommended as a tool to predict insulin resistance in overweight people. While the ratio predicts insulin resistance in White women, it is ...

Institute of Immunology and Infection Research, Centre for Immunity, Infection and Evolution, School of Biological Sciences, Ashworth Laboratories, King’s Buildings, University of Edinburgh, West Mains Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JT, UK, Laboratoire d’Immunologie, et Unité Inserm 932, InsermCIC-BT507 IGR/Curie, Institut Curie, 75005 Paris, France, Center for Infection and Immunity of Lille, INSERM U 1...

Growing a second food, fodder or bioenergy crop during the fallow period commonly refers to sequential double cropping relay practices, as function of sowing date (following within primary crop, respectively). Such practice may generate an additional income while supplying support and regulation services. As such, it could be referred form ecologically intensive agriculture but also opportunity...

In 1984, 5,010 people in the United States lost their lives in fires; almost 90% of them died in residential fires (National Center fo r Health Statistics [NCHS], unpub­ lished data). To assess the regional distribution o f these deaths,* 1978-1984 mortality data collected by NCHSf were analyzed. While an average of 4,897 persons died in residential fires each year during the period 1978-1984 (...

a Université Pierre et Marie-Curie, Sorbonne Universités, Paris, France. b Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle Epinière (ICM), INSERM UMRS 975, CNRS UMR 7225, Paris, France. c Institut de la Mémoire et de la Maladie d’Alzheimer (IMMA), Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France. d Centre de Référence Démences Rares, Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France. e Centre Psychiatrie et Neurosciences, ...