BACKGROUND New mode-of-action insecticides are sought to provide continued control of pesticide resistant arthropod vectors of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). We previously identified antagonists of the AaDOP2 D1-like dopamine receptor (DAR) from the yellow fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti, with toxicity to Ae. aegypti larvae as leads for novel insecticides. To extend DAR-based insecticide dis...

Introduction: Recently, a lot of basaltic shergottites have been found from the desert areas in northern Africa and Middle East Asia. Most of them contain large olivine grains that are not present in the previously known basaltic shergottites (except for EETA79001). These olivine grains are mostly Mg-rich, but they show different mineralogical features in each meteorite. Dar al Gani 476 and its...

Abstract Seasonal drought is the most important factor to limit the production of maize in the world. Using a split plot design, a two year field experiment was conducted to determine the effect of limited irrigation regime on yield, yield components and water use efficiency of sweet corn (Zea mays var. saccharata). Responses of three sweet corn varieties KSC403, Merit and Obsession to three di...

We analyze a multiserver queue with a discrete autoregressive process of order 1 (DAR(1)) as an input. DAR(1) is a good mathematical model for VBR-coded teleconference traffic. Based on matrix analytic methods and the theory of Markov regenerative processes, we obtain the stationary distributions of the system size and the waiting time of an arbitrary packet. Numerical examples illustrate the q...

A strong decline is apparent in annual District Average Rainfall (DAR) for District 71, located in the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales (Fig. 1). There has been some concern that this decline of about 200 mm, i.e. about 20 per cent, since 1913 could be the result of human interference with the environment, and that a continuing decline in rainfall could threaten ecosystems and irrigation. The...

Carbohydrate Group Colloquium Organized by A. Dell (Imperial College of Science and Technology, London), L. Johnson (University of Oxford) and T. Feizi (Glyconjugates Section, Clinical Research Centre, Harrow), in Honour of Professor Bill Whelan and Sponsored by Monsanto Corporate Research, Pfizer Ltd, AstroMed, Boehringer Mannheim U.K., ICI Agrochemicals, M-Scan Ltd, Oxford University Press an...

The general economic development in Asia has resulted in the reallocation of sweet potato utilization between pig feed and starch processing. In China, which produces 85% of the world’s sweet potato, about 45% is fed to pigs. Vietnam, the second largest world producer, allocates 75% to pig feed since sweet potato cannot compete with cassava as a raw material. Papua, Indonesia, does not occupy a...