Bed bugs, Cimex lectularius L. (Hemiptera: Cimicidae), are a fast-growing urban pest of significant public health importance in the United States and many other countries. Yet, there is very little field research on the ecology of this pest due to its near absence in the United States and most developed nations for several decades. We investigated characteristics of the bed bug infestation and ...

CONTEXT Animal models and human studies suggest that osteocytes regulate the skeleton's response to mechanical unloading in part by an increase in sclerostin. However, few studies have reported changes in serum sclerostin in humans exposed to reduced mechanical loading. OBJECTIVE We determined changes in serum sclerostin and bone turnover markers in healthy adult men undergoing controlled bed...

Ru/Al2O3 catalysts were prepared by conventional incipient wetness impregnation as well as colloid deposition of RuCl3 precursor via in situ reduction with ethylene glycol (polyol) method on alumina support. The samples were characterized by TEM, XRD and TPR techniques. The catalytic performance tests were carried out in a fixed-bed micro-reactor under diffe...

The aim of the study was to analyze the kinetics of short-term changes in bone turnover. We studied in a randomized crossover design the effects of 6 days of bed rest on eight healthy male subjects (mean body wt: 70.1 +/- 5.7 kg; mean age: 25.5 +/- 2.9 yr). The metabolic ward period was divided into three parts: 4 ambulatory days, 6 days of either bed rest or non-bed rest periods, and 1 recover...

River topography is famously fractal, and the fractality of the sediment bed surface can produce scaling in solute residence time distributions. Empirical evidence showing the relationship between fractal bed topography and scaling of hyporheic travel times is still lacking. We performed experiments to make highresolution observations of streambed topography and solute transport over naturally ...