trissolcus grandis thomson is a solitary egg parasitoid of sunn pest, eurygaster integriceps puton. although widely distributed, it has often been overlooked in field surveys. our objectives were to develop an efficient rearing technique for t. grandis, and to determine the basic bionomics and demographic parameters, necessary for future augmentative biological control programs. exposure of 0-4...

and the Dominican Republic, two middle-income countries Lori Kestenbaum, MD; Andrew Steenhoff, MBBCh, DCH; Maura Murphy; Marc Callender, MD; Ingrid Japa, MD; Bakanuki Nfila; Charlotte Moser; Paul Offit, MD; Ndibo Monyatsi; Kristen Feemster, MD, MPH, MSHP; Division of Infectious Diseases, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA; Botswana-UPenn Partnership, Gaborone, Botswana; G...

Abstract Snake predation is considered an important evolutionary force for primates. Yet, very few studies have documented encounters between primates and snakes in the wild. Here, we provide a preliminary account of how wild moor macaques ( Macaca maura ) respond to seven species real model snakes. Snakes could be local dangerous (i.e., venomous or constricting), nondangerous, novel dangerous....

The views expressed in this report are the authors' and do not necessarily reflect those of the Department for Education and Skills. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This review was funded as part of the DfES's research programme. The author wishes to thank the project manager, Maura Lantrua, for her help and support throughout. Thanks are also due to research and policy specialists at the DfES for their sugge...

Francesca Caloni 1, Giovanna Mazzoleni 2, Marisa Meloni 3, Chiara Urani 4, Maura Ferrari 5, Silvia Dotti 5 and Yula Sambuy 6 Università degli Studi di Milano, Department of Health, Animal Science and Food Safety (VESPA), Milan, Italy; Università degli Studi di Brescia, Department of Clinical and Experimental Sciences (DSCS), School of Medicine, Brescia, Italy; VitroScreen, In vitro research Lab...

trissolcus grandis (thomson) (hymenoptera: scelionidae) is the most important egg parasitoid of the common sunn pest, eurygaster integriceps puton (hemiptera: scutelleridae) in iran. demographic characteristics may be used for preliminary screening of parasitoid species or populations as well as for predicting their efficiency under different physical conditions in the field. in this study, the...

The susceptibility of 7 d old veliger larvae of the scallops Argopecten ventricosus and Nodipecten subnodosus, the penshell Atrina maura, and the Pacific oyster Crassostrea gigas to a pathogenic strain of Vibrio alginolyticus was investigated by challenging the larvae with different bacterial concentrations in a semi-static assay. The results indicate that the larvae of the 2 scallop species ar...

They don't spend a lot of time treating patients. And they're seldom included on grand rounds. But health services boards of directors still have a significant role to play in quality and patient safety. Their responsibilities for quality go beyond those of boards in many other settings and so, therefore, does their need for specialized education and training. As Maura Davies, chief executive o...