Sporotrichosis is a chronic fungal disease usually limited to cutaneous and subcutaneous tissues. The most common way of the infection is the skin trauma by a prick from a thorn or a piece from a variety of barks, trees and bushes. Occupations that predispose persons to infections includes: farmer-agriculturist, gardener, florist, planters of trees, forestry workers, horticulturist, workers of ...

DESCRIPTION A 28-year-old lady presented with weakness in both lower limbs for 4 months, urinary and fecal incontinence for 3 months along with sensory loss in the perianal region and below both knees for 3 months. Clinical examination revealed intact higher mental functions and normal cranial nerves. A small paramedian swelling, 10×12 cm in size, soft in consistency was noted in lumbosacral re...

In the present study, feasibility of laboratory detection of damaged seeds in precision planters caused by malfunction of seed metering device was investigated. An acoustic-based intelligent system was developed for detection of damaged pelleted tomato seeds. To improve the Artificial Neural Network (ANN) models a total of 2000 seeds sound signals, 1000 samples for damaged seeds and 1000 for un...

Natural rubber (NR), regarded as nature's most versatile raw material is obtained from the latex of Hevea brasiliensis, a tree, native to the tropical rain forests of Amazon and introduced on a commercial scale to the Far East during the last century. In India, organised cultivation of rubber started in 1902 on an estate scale by European planters. This crop however came out of the bounds of th...

Usually the planters used in agricultural machinery face two problems: The have to spread soil twice using tray seed planter, and it is difficult for them dig holes before planting. This study has designed a spiral digging end-effector parallel effectively quickly so that seeds can be planted easily. A was with five bits, synchronous belt, cylinder, gear motor, connecting plate based on size pu...

About the year 1625 the Olive, a ship returning to Britain from Pernambuco and driven by bad weather, arrived at Barbados. The island was found to be uninhabited, although the presence of fruits and hogs suggested earlier visits by other ships. The ground "they found by tryalls in several parts, to be so overgrown with Wood; as there could be found no Champions or Savannahs for men to dwell in"...

While U.S. slave institutions formally guaranteed slaveowner property, the threat of fugitive slaves constrained economic development in the slave sector. We present new evidence on the economics of the slave South, focusing on the enforcement of slave property rights. We collect data on the characteristics of, and money rewards offered to slave catchers for, individual runaway slaves from 20,0...

SEPTEMBER 2004 183 In the last decade, about 370,000 acres (150,000 ha) of economically marginal farmland in the Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley (LMAV) have been restored to bottomland hardwood forests (Stanturf and others 1998, King and Keeland 1999, Schoenholtz and others 2001). Planting of this considerable acreage is due to several federal programs, such as the Wetlands Reserve Program (W...

THE ORDER Phallales, as outlined by Cunningham (1942) and Zeller (1949), contains three families and approximately 20 genera of fleshy basidiomycetes, which, because of their usually stalked fruiting bodies and foetid odor, are commonly called "the stinkhorns." The group includes some of the most bizarre and unusual of the fungi . The Phallales appear to be poorly represented in Hawaii, at leas...

Survival and growth of white spruce (Picea glauca (Moench) Voss) seedlings raised as 4 different-sized container stock types were followed on 5 harvested sites in the Cache Creek drainage of interior Alaska. Stock types evaluated were 1-0 Ray Leach Pine Cells® (65 cm3, 4 in3) and 1-0 Styroblock® sizes 313B (65 cm3, 4 in3), 415B (98 cm3, 6 in3), and 415D (164 cm3, 10 in3). After 5 y, survival an...