Since ancient times, locusts have been serious pests wreaking havoc on settled agriculture throughout much of the world.Numerous locust practices have been developed to control infestations.This has led to most commentaries portraying locust infestations only in a negative light while focusing on finding best management practices for suppressing lo
ABSTRACT Objective To retrospectively evaluate the outcomes of patients with low and intermediate risk thyroid carcinoma treated with total thyroidectomy (TT) and who did not undergo radioiodine remnant ablation (RRA) and to compare them to patients receiving low dose of iodine (30 mCi).Subjects and methods A total of 189 differentiated thyroid can
Molecular mechanisms that dictate chromatin organization in vivo are under active investigation, and the extent to which intrinsic interactions contribute to this process remains debatable.A central quantity for evaluating their contribution is the strength of nucleosome-nucleosome binding, which previous experiments have estimated to range from 2
This paper examines the effect of gainsharing provisions on the selection of a discount rate for a defined benefit pension plan.The paper uses a traditional actuarial approach of discounting liabilities using the expected return of the associated pension fund.A stochastic Excel model was developed to simulate the effect of varying investment return
We report the first outbreak of a pathogenic avian influenza virus that occurred on 13 April 2022 in the locality of Meyang, in Gabon, causing the death of 17,498 laying hens.Molecular analysis revealed that the mass mortalities observed in laying hens were HYDRATING OIL associated with serotype Planter H5N1 whose strain belonged to clade 2.3.4.4b.