ticks are considered to be the main vectors for transmission of various diseases to animals and human. the present faunistic study aimed to determine species belonging to Ixodidae ticks, infesting cattle of Khoozestan province, south-west of Iran. Totally 1000 ticks were collected randomly from cattle from 9 locations in five geographical regions between January to September 2011, and were iden...

Loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.) is a major plantation species grown in the southern United States, producing wood having a multitude of uses including pulp and lumber production. Specific gravity (SG) is an important property used to measure the quality of wood produced, and it varies regionally and within the tree with height and radius. SG at different height levels was measured from 407 trees...

Deployment of sediment traps over a 12-month period has enabled investigation of the lateral variability of overbank deposition rates and particle size composition of deposited sediment across a frequently inundated flood plain section of the River Culm, southeast Devon, UK. Although a general exponential decrease in deposition rate and grain size with distance from the channel occurs, signific...

Shippers are daily users of the French gas grid. Differences between planned and effective gas demand unbalance the grid. To restore the balance, GRTgaz computes every day amounts of gas transiting on the grid. Amounts injected or withdrawn from the storages, balancing tolerances use rates are also computed. Finally, if the grid is still unbalanced, amounts of gas (associated with penalties) bo...

Laboratoire de Physiologie et Génétique Moléculaire des Plantes, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Campus Plaine (CP 242) Bd du triomphe, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium.