Scirtothrips aurantii Faure (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) is a major pest of citrus fruit in subtropical southern Africa. Population monitoring is an important aspect of S. aurantii control, but additional information is required on its phenology. Dispersal of mature larvae onto the soil surface from the tree canopy, and emergence of adults, were assessed using dispersal/emergence (D/E) traps in an...

BACKGROUND In rural Bangladesh, India and elsewhere, pour-flush pit latrines are the most common sanitation system. When a single pit latrine becomes full, users must empty it themselves and risk exposure to fresh feces, pay an emptying service to remove pit contents or build a new latrine. Double pit pour-flush latrines may serve as a long-term sanitation option including high water table area...

OBJECTIVES To determine the effect of acupuncture in treating hot flushes in perimenopausal or postmenopausal women. METHODS The study was a randomised single-blind sham-controlled clinical trial. Perimenopausal or postmenopausal women with moderate or severe hot flushes were randomised to receive real or sham acupuncture. Both groups underwent a 4-week run-in period before the treatment. The...

BACKGROUND Many breast cancer patients suffer from hot flush and medical menopause as side effects of treatment. Some patients undergo acupuncture, rather than hormone therapy, to relieve these symptoms, but the efficacy of acupuncture is uncertain. This meta-analysis evaluated the efficacy of acupuncture on hot flush and menopause symptoms in women with breast cancer. METHODS A literature se...

OBJECTIVE This prospective study aims to compare three different sampling techniques for the collection of endometrial cytological specimens in the mare: the guarded culture swab, the uterine cytobrush and the low volume uterine flush. MATERIAL AND METHODS The study population consisted of six healthy Standardbred mares in dioestrus. In each mare an acute endometritis was induced by performin...

Metabolic blood profiles were studied in a total of 30 female mink (Mustela vison) at different planes of nutrition prior to the breeding season in a control (CON; n = 10), a flushed (FLUSH; n = 10) and a negative energy balance group (NEG; n = 10). The animals were kept in metabolism cages or under normal farm conditions, respectively. The experiment, which was divided into six 1-week periods,...

Cold ischemia/warm reperfusion (CI/WR) injury remains a problem in liver transplantation. The aim of the current study was to assess the utility of the pan-caspase inhibitor IDN-6556 on CI/WR injury during human liver transplantation. This report is a post hoc analysis of a Phase II, multi-center, randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blinded, parallel group study. Subjects were assigned to fo...

Citation: Petrelli AR, Levenhagen MJ, Wardle R, Barber JR and Francis CD (2017) First to Flush: The Effects of Ambient Noise on Songbird Flight Initiation Distances and Implications for Human Experiences with Nature. Front. Ecol. Evol. 5:67. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2017.00067 First to Flush: The Effects of Ambient Noise on Songbird Flight Initiation Distances and Implications for Human Experiences wi...

Approaches to natural language processing that use a phrasal lexicon have the advantage of easily handling linguistic constructions that might otherwise be extragrammatical. However, current phrasal lexicons are often too rigid: their phrasal entries fail to cover the more flexible constructions. FLUSH, for Flexible Lexicon Utilizing Specialized and Hierarchical knowledge, is a knowledge-based ...