This paper assesses the relationships between women’s dietary diversity and various indicators of agricultural biodiversity in farms Hauts-Bassins, a cotton-growing region rural western Burkina Faso. A sample 579 representative was surveyed at three different periods year. Using qualitative 24-h recall, we computed score (WDDS-10) based on ten food groups. We used four crop indicators: count (C...

Forage grass nutritional quality directly affects animal feed intake, productivity, and enteric methane (CH 4 ) emissions. This study evaluated the quality, in vitro CH emission potential, optimization of diets based on two widely grown tropical forage grasses either alone or mixed with legumes. The Urochloa hybrid cv. Cayman (UHC) U. brizantha Toledo (UBT), which typically have low concentrati...

N ephrogenic systemic fibrosis (NSF), formerly known as nephrogenic fibrosing dermopathy (NFD), is now a major concern for nephrologists. This entity was first described in 1997 in renal transplant recipients with poor graft function (1). More than 215 cases of NSF have subsequently been described in the NFD/NSF registry, with increasing numbers of cases being reported (2). NSF is a fibrosing d...

In this issue of the Netherlands Journal of Medicine, Kampen et al. describe a patient with a hepatic angiosarcoma resulting from exposure to Thorotrast. Thorotrast was developed in 1928 and used as a radiocontrast agent in the period 1930 to 1960. Thorotrast is a colloidal solution containing the naturally occurring radionuclide Thorium. Thorotrast particles are deposited in the reticulo-endot...

Objective: The aim of this study was to compare the effects different doses Geumnyeonyijin-tang (GNYJT) water extracts with those metformin (250 mg/kg) in mild diabetic-obese mice.Methods and Results: 48 mice were divided into 1 normal pellet diet (NFD) group 5 high-fat (HFD) groups. At end 12 weeks oral administration or GNYJT (400, 200, or100 mg/kg), evaluated. HFD control showed noticeable i...

Plucinski and colleagues (1) recently published the results of a therapeutic efficacy study of artemether-lumefantrine (AL) and dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine (DP) in Zaire and Uíge Provinces in Angola and concluded that there was evidence of increased lumefantrine resistance in Zaire. It is our opinion that this conclusion is not supported by the data presented. We applaud the authors for thei...

To determine the optimum time to harvest trees is one of most interesting problems in economics forest resources. It highly debated whether forests Northern hemisphere should be used as carbon sinks or harvested more for long- short-term wood use storage long-lived products and bioenergy. In our study we examined trend cutting ages by tree species, ownership function period 2006–2021 based on d...