The 65th Medical Brigade and Public Health Command District-Korea, in collaboration with the Migratory Bird Research Center, National Park Research Institute, conducted migratory bird tick surveillance at Sogugul and Gaerin Islands (small rocky bird nesting sites), Jeollanam-do (Province), Republic of Korea (ROK), on 30 July and 1 August 2009. Breeding seabirds captured by hands in their nestin...

Among stomach contents of procellariiform birds, one of the commonest components is oil which varies in color from pale yellow to red. This oil occurs in greatest quantities in stomachs of young birds on the nest and may be regurgitated by them when disturbed. Regurgitation is apparently more frequent, and may be more voluntarily controlled, in chicks of surface nesters than in those of burrow ...

The ʻuaʻu, or Hawaiian Petrel, Pterodroma sandwichensis, is an endangered seabird endemic to the Islands. Although its distribution on some of islands well documented, larger such as Hawaiʻi there are significant gaps. Previous work within Puʻu O ʻUmi Natural Area Reserve (NAR) strongly suggested that a breeding colony species was present, but active burrows had not been located making...

---------------------------------------------------------------------***--------------------------------------------------------------------Abstract Effect of TiO2 and ZrO2 filler on mechanical properties of the epoxy polymer has been investigated experimentally. TiO2 and ZrO2 filler epoxy composites are fabricated by hand layup technique in a mold and cured under light pressure at room tempera...