In laboratory studies, the Argentine ant, Linepithema humile (Mayr), and the odorous house ant, Tapinoma sessile (Say), avoided aromatic cedar mulch as a nesting substrate. Both ant species were killed when confined with fresh aromatic cedar mulch in sealed containers. However, when confined with cedar mulch that had been aged outdoors for up to 140 d, mortality of L. humile was complete regard...

The Cedar DBMS is a database management system developed as part of the Cedar programming environment The system has several unusual aspects, including its interface for applications programming in a strongly-typed procedural anguage and its distribution of computation and data over a network. This paper describes the design goals, architecture, and implementation of the Cedar DBMS.

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Method We designed a three-armed, double-blinded, randomized, placebo-controlled trial. Patients received mometasone furoate nasal spray (EIT group: n=25), placebo (n=25), or 4 weeks of placebo followed by 8 weeks of mometasone (POT group: n=25) for a 12-week period starting on February 1, 2011. The primary endpoint was the comparison of the total nasal symptom score (TNSS) among the three grou...

The purpose of this study is to determine the woody species diversity in Sweet chestnut tree, Hazel-tree and Italian cypress ecosystems in the Guilan forests. A lozeng 0.5 ha sample plot was selectively established on each site. In the Sweet chestnut ecosystems , 4 sites were classified, whereas 10 sites of Hazel tree and Italian cypress ecosystems were classified based on species composition. ...

BACKGROUND Grass and birch pollens are known to induce asthma. However there are few reports about other pollen-induced asthma. Japanese cedar is the most common allergen in rhinitis in Japan but is controversial on whether it can provoke asthma. METHODS To clarify Japanese cedar pollen-induced asthma, we studied adult patients who were sensitized only to the Japanese cedar (CAP-RAST > = 2) a...

An advanced pretreatment method that combines steam treatment (ST) with wet disk milling (WDM) was evaluated using two different species of woods, viz., Hinoki cypress (softwood) and Eucalyptus (hardwood). Bioconversion of the pretreated products was performed using enzymatic saccharification via a commercial cellulase mixture and two types of fermentation processing, i.e., yeast-based simultan...

The history of pollinosis in Japan before the discovery of Japanese cedar pollinosis was presented in part I in this paper. Until early 1960s, it was believed that there was no pollinosis in Japan except one case of ragweed pollinosis. The summary of how the Japanese cedar pollinosis was discovered and named was presented in part II, by referring to the paper in which we reported the presence o...

Hierarchical decomposition is a fundamental principle that encourages the organization of program elements into nested scopes of access, instead of treating all as “global.” This paper offers a foundational study of heap decomposition inference, the problem of statically extracting the decomposition hierarchy latent in the runtimes of object-oriented programs, henceforth revealing the compositi...