Thirty-nine commercial varieties of head cabbage were evaluated for feeding preference of the diamondback moth (DBM), Plutella xylostella, at Kula, Hawaii, USA. Varieties were evaluated for density of caterpillars, extent of feeding damage and percentage of marketable heads. Twelve out of 39 (31%) varieties that showed the least DBM caterpillar damage and produced high percentage of marketable ...

The thunder god vine or Tripterygium wilfordii Hook. F. is a representative Chinese medicinal herb which has been used widely and successfully for centuries in treating inflammatory diseases. More than 100 components have been isolated from this plant, and most of them have potent therapeutic efficacy for a variety of autoimmune and inflammatory diseases. In the past four decades, the anticance...

The response of lightning rates over Europe to arrival of high speed solar wind streams at Earth is investigated using a superposed epoch analysis. Fast solar wind stream arrival is determined from modulation of the solar wind Vy component, measured by the Advanced Composition Explorer spacecraft. Lightning rate changes around these event times are determined from the very low frequency arrival...

Computers and routers on the Internet send each other error messages (called ICMP datagrams) to signal conditions such as network congestion or blackouts. While these datagrams are very rare, less than 0.001% of total traffic, they hold very important global information about problems and congestions elsewhere in the Net. A measurement of the flow of such error messages in our local cluster sho...

1School of Kinesiology, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Canada P7B 5E1 2Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA 3Department of Pathophysiology, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 210029, China 4Department of Pathophysiology, Harbin Medical University, Harbin 150081, China 5School of Life Science, Shanx...

1 Physiology Department, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, 90050-170 Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil 2 Northern Ontario School of Medicine, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Canada P7B 5E1 3 Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires 1121, Argentina 4 Santa Casa de Misericórdia School of Medicine (EMESCAM), 29027-502 Vitória, ES, Brazil 5 Pharmacology Department, University o...