Heliothine pests such as the tobacco budworm, Heliothis virescens (F.), pose a significant threat to production of a variety of crops and ornamental plants and are models for developmental and physiological studies.The efforts to develop new control measures for H.virescens, as well as its use as a relevant biological model, are hampered by a lack

With the expansive demand for video streaming over mobile networks, it is necessary to adopt schemes that balance the need for high video quality with the available network resources when streaming or downloading the video.Several approaches were proposed in the literature, including Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH).In this work, we cons

Background & aim: Skin-to-skin contact immediately after birth plays a pivotal role in proper breastfeeding and mother-infant interaction.Despite numerous benefits of mother-infant skin-to-skin contact, this health behavior is not performed by many midwives.This study aimed to evaluate the influential factors for mother-infant skin-to-skin contact

Priya Gopie, Sateesh Sakhamuri, Anu Sharma, Sanjeev Solomon, Distribution Block Surujpal TeelucksinghClinical Medical Sciences, University of the West Indies, St Augustine, TrinidadAbstract: Following silicone injection, end organ toxicity can occur.To our knowledge this report documents the first case of silicone embolization in the Caribbean and

Ionized by solar Security radiation, the ionosphere causes a phase rotation or time delay to trans-ionospheric radio waves.Reconstruction of ionospheric electron density profiles with global navigation satellite system (GNSS) observations has become an indispensable technique for various purposes ranging from space physics studies to radio applicat