The population growth of Brown Kiwi Apteryx mantelli was measured under four different management regimes: unmanaged, predator trapping, predator poisoning, and Bank of New Zealand Operation Nest Egg (BNZONE) — the removal of eggs for artificial incubation and return of resultant subadults to the wild. Life table analysis revealed that high adult mortality (7.3% per annum), caused mainly by dom...

Sweet pepper is one of the most important vegetable crops and its demand increasing day by in Bangladesh indicating need for varietal improvement program. Eleven sweet genotypes from native exotic sources were characterized twenty-five morphological traits using vegetative reproductive appearances at Institute Nuclear Agriculture, Mymensingh, November 2021 to March 2022. Noticeable variation wa...

While the worldwide AIDS epidemic continues to expand, directly measured incidence data are difficult to obtain. Methods to reliably estimate human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) incidence from more easily available data are particularly relevant in those parts of the world where prevalence is rising in heterosexually exposed populations. The authors set out to estimate HIV-1 incidence i...

BACKGROUND Although mortality from tuberculosis has continued to fall in recent years, there has been little change in the case fatality rate for tuberculosis over the same period. This has previously been shown to be due to the increasing proportion of cases of tuberculosis occurring in the elderly. Tuberculosis mortality and case fatality were therefore analysed to determine if this disappoin...

Penggunaan pestisida sintetik umum digunakan masyarakat untuk mengurangi OPT pada tanaman budidaya, namun ini memiliki kekurangan diantaranya tidak ramah lingkungan, hama sasaran menjadi resisten, dan musuh alami yang bukan ikut musnah. Pemanfaatan nabati merupakan salah satu upaya menekan populasi tanaman, meminimalisir pencemaran lingkungan. Penelitian dilaksanakan mengetahui tingkat keefekti...

BACKGROUND Email-based telemedicine has been reported to be an efficient method of delivering online health services to patients at a distance and is often described as a low-cost form of telemedicine. The service may be low-cost if the healthcare organisation utilise their existing email infrastructure to provide their telemedicine service. Many healthcare organisations use commercial-off-the-...

AIM There is little information about the prevalence of Corynosoma caspicum in fish particularly Gasterosteus aculeatus in Iran and the world. The aim of the present study was to find out the prevalence of acanthocephalan infection in Babolsar district, southern coastal of Caspian Sea, Northern Iran. MATERIALS AND METHODS Between September 2012 and August 2014, a total of 360 G. aculeatus fis...