Insulin-like signalling is a conserved mechanism that coordinates animal growth and metabolism with nutrient status. In Drosophila, insulin-producing median neurosecretory cells (IPCs) regulate larval growth by secreting insulin-like peptides (dILPs) in a diet-dependent manner. Previous studies have shown that nutrition affects dILP secretion through humoral signals derived from the fat body. H...

OBJECTIVE Examine the safety of menstrual cups against sanitary pads and usual practice in Kenyan schoolgirls. DESIGN Observational studies nested in a cluster randomised controlled feasibility study. SETTING 30 primary schools in a health and demographic surveillance system in rural western Kenya. PARTICIPANTS Menstruating primary schoolgirls aged 14-16 years participating in a menstrual...

Modern food animal production depends in large part on the use of antibiotics for disease control and growth promotion. This practice has left many in Denmark concerned about its potential effect on the efficacy of these important drugs. In 1969, the Swann committee recommended that those antibiotics used for the treatment of infections in animals and humans not be used as growth promoters, a p...

INTRODUCTION E-cigarette sales continue to increase in the United States. To date, little surveillance research has documented the specific product attributes driving growth. This study uses national market scanner data to describe sales trends in traditional U.S. tobacco retail channels between 2012 and 2013 and identifies product features associated with sales increases. METHODS Data on e-c...

background: considering that there was not any regional survey in isfahan, iran regarding the epidemiology of acute respiratory tract infections (arti) in different age groups of general population, the aim of this study was to determine the epidemiologic feature of artis in isfahan using multiplex polymerase chain reaction (pcr) method. materials and methods: in this cross-sectional study,pati...

b a ckground: a field study on diversity and distribution of anophelines currently present in a past endemic malaria area of spain was carried out in order to identify possible risk areas of local disease transmission. m e t hods: multiple larval sites were sampled from june to october of 2011 in the region of somontano de barbastro (northeastern spain). the sampling effort was fixed at 10 minu...

Video surveillance and machine vision systems are attracting growing academic and industrial interests. The market for digital CCTV systems is constantly growing because of terror attacks, crime, vandalism, and violence in public and also in business domains. The turnover for CCTV products for video surveillance is estimated to grow by 10% per year in Europe and by 13% per year worldwide, reach...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the legal justifiability of measures contained in state surveillance laws pertaining to the Internet. Prior to the terrorist attack on the United States of America (U.S.) on 11 September 2001, the concept ‘surveillance’ was nothing new and is indeed as old as human society. As far back as the sixteenth century the first central state surveillance appe...