Western corn rootworm (Diabrotica virgifera Le Conte) is a dangerous quarantine pest of corn. To localize and eliminate new foci its invasion on the territory Belarus an assessment was made biological efficiency insecticides from different classes: neonicotinoids – 20.8–95.5 %, pyrethroids 75.2–100 organophosphorus compounds 86.0–100 % combined 85.1–100 %. The developed tactics for application ...

Routine use of parenteral lipid emulsions (LE) in clinical practice began in 1961, with the development of soybean oil (SO) - based LE. Although clinically safe, experimental reports indicated that SO-based LE could exert a negative influence on immunological functions. Those findings were related to its absolute and relative excess of omega-6 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) and the low amou...

Vast networks of roads cover the earth and have numerous environmental effects including pollution. A major component of road runoff in northern countries is salt (mostly NaCl) used as a winter de-icing agent, but few studies of effects of road salts on aquatic organisms exist. Amphibians require aquatic habitats and chemical pollution is implicated as a major factor in global population declin...