BY an arrangement with the Bermuda Natural History Society, apportunity is offered for a limited number of instructors and research students in zoology and botany to spend a few weeks at the Bermuda Biological Station this summer. Members of the expedition will sail from New York on the steamer Bermudian (Quebec Steamship Co.) at 11 A.M. on Wednesday, June 19, arriving in Bermuda June 21, and r...

OBJECTIVE To study the prevalence and factors associated with allergic rhinitis (AR) in the priest and novices who came for treatment in Priest Hospital MATERIAL AND METHOD The retrospective study of 110 priests with allergic rhinitis was conducted between January 2006 to June 2007. Questionnaire about allergic history, eosinophile count, prick and intradermal skin test were done. RESULTS M...

C O M E 200 green-chairmen, greenkecp^ erg, and others interested in prohlems of turf maintenance assembled Monday morning. September 16, for the third annual turf meeting sponsored by the USGA Green Section and the Greenkeeping Superintendents' Association. A twoday program was arranged this year to inrlude a review (1) of the experimental work in progress on the Arlington turf garden, (2) the...

The aim of the present work is to propose a model for the estimation of lead concentration in grasses using urban descriptors easily accessible and to study the specific effect of each descriptor on lead concentration. Six descriptors were considered: the density of vegetation, the vegetation height, wind velocity, height of building, distance of adjacent street, traffic volume. Lead concentrat...

Abstract The objective of the current study was to evaluate in vitro dry matter and fiber digestibility, gas, ammonia N volatile fatty acid production peanut tops from seven cultivars, CB91-1, 010-13, IAC322, 13-D, 13-1014, 886 GA-06G, grown state Georgia, USA, Bermuda grass. top samples were harvested towards end growing season at about 125 days after planting pods removed. grass 4 weeks regro...

Pollen is responsible for seasonal allergies, such as allergic rhino-conjunctivitis (AR), and has become a growing public health concern. Climate change affects the range of allergenic species well timing length pollen season. In Egypt, data on pollinosis are scarce. This study aimed to identify most prevalent causing allergies among Egyptian patients with respiratory allergies. A total 200 dis...

Coastal Bermuda grass (CBG) has been shown to have potential as a biomass feedstock for sugar production. In this study, the effectiveness of ozone pretreatment for CBG to improve the sugar recovery via enzyme hydrolysis was investigated. Raw CBG and autohydrolysistreated CBG were pretreated with ozone at ozone consumption of 1.8 to 26.4 % (w/w) at room temperature. Lignin degradation and hemic...