The Boston Model describes a successful rodent management plan that succeeded in a first-world city in the USA. In third-world cities, which often contain informal shack settlements, it is debatable whether the Boston Model would apply. In Durban, a major harbor city of three million people on the east coast of South Africa, we investigated the sanitary risks due to rodents in both formal (resi...

In particular, let K be a framed knot in a closed oriented three-manifold Y . For a rational number r , let Yr .K/ be the manifold obtained by Dehn surgery along K with slope r . Two surgeries along K with distinct slopes r and r 0 are called equivalent if there exists an orientation-preserving homeomorphism of the complement of K taking one slope to the other; and they are called truly cosmeti...

We describe a new species of the bufonid toad genus Rhinella from transition montane forest of the buffer zones of the Yanachaga-Chemillén National Park and the Pui Pui Protected Forest (eastern slopes of Andes, Selva Central, Peru). The new species belongs to the Rhinella margaritifera species group (confirmed by mtDNA data) and differs from all its members by the absence of tympanic membrane ...

The effects of topography, soil moisture, wind and grazing on the emergence and survival of seedlings of Festuca spp. were examined in the steppe zone of Patagonia, Argentina. Ungrazed and grazed field treatment plots were established on a plain and a north-facing slope at the Media Luna Ranch (43" 36' S, 71" 25' W). On the leeward and windward sides of each of 15 Festuca plants, 0.1 m x 0.4 m ...

We show that \most" Dehn-llings of a non-bered, atoroidal, Haken three-manifold with torus boundary are virtually Haken. 1 Results Suppose that X is a compact, oriented, three-manifold with boundary a torus T: We will pick a basis of H 1 (T) represented by simple loops ; such that = 0 in H 1 (X; Q): We call a longitude and a meridian. A slope, ; on T is the isotopy class of essential unoriented...

In terms of biological dosimetry at the time of radiation exposure, the dicentric chromosome (Dic) assay (DCA) is the gold standard for assessing for the acute phase and chromosome translocation (Tr) analysis is the gold standard for assessing the chronic phase. It is desirable to have individual dose-response curves (DRCs) for each laboratory because the analysis criteria differ between labora...

The discharge coefficient of an ogee crest is a function the ratio effective head to design head. purpose present study derive theoretical model this relation, which does not depend on empirical coefficients and whose predictions over wide range ratios are accurate enough for practical use. developments consider unsubmerged crests without approach flow or lateral contraction effects, heads larg...

This paper looks at the problem confronting a doctor evaluating a patient with anticentromere antibody who does not have evidence of disease along the spectrum from CREST (calcinosis, Raynaud's phenomenon, oesophageal dysmotility, sclerodactyly, telangiectasia) to progressive systemic sclerosis. Of 33 people with anticentromere antibody, 21 had CREST and two had scleroderma. Of the other 10 wit...