The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection, in a cooperative agreement with the Office of Surface Mining’s Charleston Field Office, is evaluating the utility of high resolution satellite images for characterizing vegetation patterns on reclaimed surface mines. This paper details the results of the first phase of this project, which sought to determine whether satellite images coul...

Manal Abd El-Mohsen, Henry Bayele, Gunter Kuhnle, Glenn Gibson, Edward Debnam, S. Kaila Srai, Catherine Rice-Evans and Jeremy P. E. Spencer* School of Food Biosciences, University of Reading, PO Box 226, Whiteknights, Reading RG6 6AP, UK Royal Free and University College Medical School, Royal Free Campus, London NW3 2PF, UK Wolfson Centre for Age-related Diseases, GKT School of Biomedical Scien...

J. E. Amaro,1 M. B. Barbaro,2 J. A. Caballero,3 T. W. Donnelly,4 A. Molinari,2 and I. Sick5,∗ 1Departamento de Fı́sica Moderna, Universidad de Granada, E-18071 Granada, Spain 2Dipartimento di Fisica Teorica, Università di Torino, and INFN, Sezione di Torino, Via P. Giuria 1, I-10125 Torino, Italy 3Departamento de Fı́sica Atómica, Molecular y Nuclear, Universidad de Sevilla, Apdo. 1065, E-41080 Se...

Galendromus occidentalis (Nesbitt) is one of several phytoseiid species that are available for purchase to supplement endemic predator populations that are not providing sufficient control of spider mites. We performed a series of releases of commercially reared G. occidentalis in commercial apple (Malus domestica Borkhausen) orchards in Washington from 2010 to 2012. Releases of up to 50,000 mi...

Jorge Lobo's disease is a cutaneous and subcutaneous mycosis that affects patients in the Amazon region. The number of patients is relatively small, but the real situation of the disease as public health problem is not known, because Jorge Lobo's disease is not a notifiable disease. This study aims to report the clinical evolution in patients affected and to determine the prevalence and areas o...

For nearly 40 years Bolitoglossa paraensis has been synonymized with Bolitoglossa altamazonica. This fact has been mainly related to taxonomic ambiguities arising from the morphological similarities between these species and the scarcity of material deposited in collections. However, during the past 30 years new material of Bolitoglossa has been collected in many places throughout the Brazilian...

The year was 1944. World War II was showing signs of winding down, but predictions that the Japanese would !ght to the bitter end had the Allies gravely concerned that they would run out of gasoline for the war effort. The 23-million-acre Naval Petroleum Reserve in northern Alaska was a prime location for !nding new sources of oil, and the U.S. Navy decided to explore. But the navy had a proble...

As resident and attending psychiatrists, our role is to evaluate treat people who require hospitalisation for acute psychiatric conditions. Our primary goal provide these individuals with a safe space heal, offer treatment that can promote recovery. Although this achieved most patients in the unit, not all are afforded such sanctuary. Recently, young man, Mr X, opened eyes mistreatment Black me...