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The impact of free convection on late morning ozone decreases on an Alpine foreland mountain summit J.-C. Mayer, K. Staudt, S. Gilge, F. X. Meixner, and T. Foken Biogeochemistry Department, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany Department of Micrometeorology, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany German Meteorological Service, Observatory Hohenpeißenberg, Hohenpeißenberg, Germa...

Ever since crops have been grown, quelea have been a threat to summer subsistence crops and winter commercial wheat/barley cropping in Zimbabwe. Control techniques spraying toxicant Queletox through ground spray units and aircraft, developed in Zimbabwe, have produced 90% kills keeping the level of depredation down to acceptable levels. Zimbabwe, like most developing countries, faces protein sh...

1Department of Pharmacy Practice, School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14260, USA 2Translational Pharmacology Research Core, New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences, 701 Ellicot Street, Buffalo, NY 14302, USA 3Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, Center for Human Experimental Therapeutics, Clinical and Translati...

A survey to determine the nematode species in rural chickens reared extensively was carried out in six districts of Zimbabwe. Two-hundred-and-seventy chickens were randomly collected from the districts and processed for helminth recovery. One genus and 10 species were identified from the gastrointestinal tract but no parasites were found in the respiratory tract and eyes. Skrjabinocerca sp., Ca...

Government claims that these were significant achievements. However, the currency issue reflected, not an achievement, but a string of very serious failures. The failures systematically destroyed the value of the Zimbabwe dollar and, despite severe criticism, government defended every one of the policy decisions that led to it, every step of the way. And the monetary officials did not accept th...

Abstract Background Zimbabwe envisions being an upper-middle-income economy by the year 2030. The vision 2030 has infrastructure development as a stand-out pillar upon which it is founded. envisages well-developed, modern, efficient and resilient paramount to Zimbabwe’s economic recovery. policy plan seeks increase investments in energy, transport, information technology, tourism, housing, wate...

Powdery mildew [Podosphaera xanthii (Castagne) Braun & Shishkoff (syn. Sphaerotheca fuliginea auct. p.p.)] is now a common disease on watermelon [Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.) Matsum. & Nakai] in the United States. In this study, the entire available U.S. Plant Introduction collection of Citrullus Schrad. ex Eckl. & Zeyh. species was evaluated for resistance to P. xanthii race 1W. The collection c...

BACKGROUND Substantial heterogeneity in HIV prevalence has been observed within sub-Saharan Africa. It is not clear which factors can explain these differences. Our aim was to identify risk factors that could explain the large differences in HIV-1 prevalence among pregnant women in Harare, Zimbabwe, and Moshi, Tanzania. METHODS Cross-sectional data from a two-centre study that enrolled pregna...