Herbal medicine is the first response to illness in rural Dominica. Every adult knows several "bush" medicines, and knowledge varies from person to person. Anthropological convention suggests that modernization generally weakens traditional knowledge. We examine the effects of commercial occupation, consumerism, education, parenthood, age, and gender on the number of medicinal plants freelisted...

at 27 and 32 1C, and 57% relative humidity. Initial population level and temperature, and their interaction, were significant for the number of F1 progeny and feeding damage (Po0.01). A strong positive correlation was also found between initial population size, number of F1 progeny, percentage of insect-damaged kernels (IDKs) and feeding damage. The impact of R. dominica on the milling quality ...

This study focuses on the assessment of impact climate change efficiency ambient air aeration and dynamics Rhyzopertha dominica, which is a major pest that infests wheat stored in Tunisia. To project future conditions for period 2041–2070, two models, namely MPI-ESM1.2 CNRMCM5.1, were used under representative concentration pathways (RCP4.5 RCP8.5). The examined historical projected feasibility...

Health Organization travel guidelines, a blood sample, taken 3 days after symptoms onset, was tested at the National Institute of Virology (Pune, India) for Ebola virus disease. This test used RT-PCR and real-time RT-PCR to detect Ebola virus nucleoprotein and polymerase genes and ruled out Ebola virus disease. These tests were repeated with standard positive and negative controls to ensure no ...

RESUMO Populações de Rhyzopertha dominica (F.) resistente e susceptível a inseticidas fosforados foram investigadas para verificar a ocorrência de acetilcolinesterase alterada. Malaoxon, a diferentes concentrações, foi utilizado como inibidor em ensaios colorimétricos "in vitro". Populações resistentes provenientes dos municípios de Patrocínio (Minas Gerais, Brasil) e Riley (Kansas, E.U.A.) apr...

The beetle fauna of the island of Dominica is summarized. It is presently known to contain 269 genera, and 361 species (in 42 families), of which 347 are named at a species level. Of these, 62 species are endemic to the island. The other naturally occurring species number 262, and another 23 species are of such wide distribution that they have probably been accidentally introduced and distribut...