fumigant toxicity of rosemary essential oil on abamectin-resistant vs. susceptible populations of two spotted spider mites, tetranychus urticae koch was studied under laboratory conditions. results indicated that fumigant toxicity of rosemary essential oil on the susceptible population was 3.06 times higher than that of the resistant one. accordingly, there was a slight cross resistance observe...

QUESTION Does warm-up or cool-down (also called warm-down) reduce delayed-onset muscle soreness? DESIGN Randomised controlled trial of factorial design with concealed allocation and intention-to-treat analysis. PARTICIPANTS Fifty-two healthy adults (23 men and 29 women aged 17 to 40 years). INTERVENTION Four equally-sized groups received either warm-up and cool-down, warm-up only, cool-do...

for induction of ruminal acidosis, 10 clinically healthy three years old non pregnant female sheep were selected. prior to the infusion of sucrose (0 hour), rumen and blood samples were obtained in order to determine baseline rumen and blood ph, respectively. electrocardiogram (ecg) was also recorded. acute ruminal acidosis was induced experimentally with sucrose at a dose of 18g kg-1 body weig...

purpose: to compare post-operative pain with cooling photorefractive keratectomy (prk) versus conventional prk. methods: a prospective clinical trial was performed on 94 eyes from 47 patients scheduled for prk. patients were randomly assigned to either cooling or conventional prk. pain was evaluated 6, 12, 24 and 48 hours post-operation using a visual analogue scale (vas). corneal haze, conjunc...