Toxicity of Common Indoor Household Insecticides Registered in Florida by Frederick M. Fishel

“…Insecticides are designed to control insect pests, but they can also be toxic (poisonous) to desirable plants and animals, including humans. Some pesticides are so highly toxic that very small quantities can kill a person, and almost any pesticide can make people ill if they are exposed to a sufficient amount. …”
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Back to Analog. Printing Digital Editions for Data Quality. by Maxim Kupreyev

“…The article examines the extended skill set required of quality assurance specialists in social sciences and humanities (SSH) as compared to their industrial counterparts. …”
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Is the Gut Microbiota a New Factor Contributing to Obesity and Its Metabolic Disorders? by Kristina Harris, Amira Kassis, Geneviève Major, Chieh J. Chou

“…Gut microbiota has evolved with humans as a mutualistic partner, but dysbiosis in a form of altered gut metagenome and collected microbial activities, in combination with classic genetic and environmental factors, may promote the development of metabolic disorders. …”
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Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UASs): Current State, Emerging Technologies, and Future Trends by Gennaro Ariante, Giuseppe Del Core

“…These features make them particularly advantageous in environments that are hazardous or inaccessible to humans. Recent developments have highlighted a significant increase in the use of unmanned aircraft within metropolitan areas. …”
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Chronic Exposure to Arsenic in Drinking Water Causes Alterations in Locomotor Activity and Decreases Striatal mRNA for the D2 Dopamine Receptor in CD1 Male Mice by Claudia Leticia Moreno Ávila, Jorge H. Limón-Pacheco, Magda Giordano, Verónica M. Rodríguez

“…Arsenic exposure has been associated with sensory, motor, memory, and learning alterations in humans and alterations in locomotor activity, behavioral tasks, and neurotransmitters systems in rodents. …”
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Elimination of metoclopramid by the adsorption process (GAC) and ozone process by Oussama Khemis, Gabriel Racovițeanu, Elena Vulpașu

“…Existence of pharmaceutical substances in water with different concentrations in natural ecosystems it poses a danger to humans and animals. Conventional methods for water treatment have proven to be relatively ineffective in removing pharmaceutical contaminants, while the more effective process used for our research to eliminate pharmaceutical substance metoclopramid are ozone processes and adsorption process. …”
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Resilient Design. A synoptic framework by Claudio Germak

“…It acts to benefit ‘sustainability’ and ‘resilience’ on different scales and in multiple sectors, thanks also to its own identity, which distinguishes it as a kind of knowledge that connects humanities and technologies. It has learned to plan for what can place the system in crisis, developing collaborative actions to adapt to the internal causes such as exceeding the limits of development, migration, ageing, as well as mitigation regarding those external causes, such as natural disasters, even if these often depend on the first causes. …”
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Sensor-Based Turmeric Finger Growth Characteristics Monitoring Using Embedded System under Soil by Maheswaran Shanmugam, Asokan Ramasamy

“…Modern agribusiness is becoming increasingly reliant on computer-based systems which was formerly performed by humans. One such technological innovation is the embedded system-based sensor array module such as flex sensor, temperature sensor, and pH sensor that have been used to monitor the turmeric finger growth characteristics. …”
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Refugee, Shelter and Threat: Nature Represented in f. Sionil Jose’s Dusk by Kristiawan Indriyanto

“…Firstly, nature can provide shelter, nourishment, and also comfort for the humanity. Secondly, nature is also an untamed and even hostile force who can claim the life of people who pass through it. …”
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Brief Exposition of Religious Experience in Semitic Religion by Ahmad Nabil Amir, Tasnim Abdul Rahman

“…It also surveys modern development in this field of study and its position in espousing interfaith dialogue and the mutual heritage of our common humanity that highlighted the spirit of La-Convivencia of such an inclusive and pluralistic force, especially in the Malay Basin. …”
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Limb Regeneration in Axolotl: Is It Superhealing? by Stéphane Roy, Mathieu Lévesque

“…A better understanding of these animals' regenerative capacity could lead to major benefits by providing regenerative medicine with directions on how to develop therapeutic approaches leading to regeneration in humans.…”
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Promocja bezpieczeństwa ekologicznego w Gminie Warszawa-Bielany by Iwona Grunt-Mejer

“…Ecological safety is one of the more important needs of humans. On the other hand, the local government in the typology of entity realizing social policy is located as a public and legal entity, which acts on a local scale. …”
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Pastorale begeleiding aan die persoon met dissosiatiewe identiteitsversteuring by A. L. du Plessis

“…Assistance should take place with care and sensitivity in order to guide the person with dissociative identity disorder taking into consideration integral dimensions of personal humanity. It is submitted that guidance in this respect can therefore not be unilaterally psychological or pastoral by nature. …”
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Blacklegged Tick or Deer Tick, Ixodes scapularis Say (Arachnida: Acari: Ixodidae) by Michael R. Patnaude, Thomas N. Mather

“… In the United States, the blacklegged tick, Ixodes scapularis Say affects the greatest number of people for three principal reasons: their geographic distribution coincides in the northeastern United States with the greatest concentration of humans (Miller et al. 1990); spirochete infection rates are high, often exceeding 25 (Burgdorfer et al. 1982, Anderson et al. 1983, Magnarelli et al. 1986); and the geographical range of the tick is spreading (Lastavica et al. 1989, Anderson et al. 1990, Godsey et al. 1987, Davis et al. 1984). …”
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Case report: Neuroendocrine carcinoma of the nasal cavity in a roe deer (Capreolus capreolus) by Gorazd Vengušt, Diana Žele Vengušt, Carlo Cantile, Mitja Gombač, Kristina Tekavec, Tanja Švara

“…Neuroendocrine tumors of the nasal cavity are rare in both animals and humans. This report describes the macroscopic, histopathological and immunohistochemical characteristics of a neuroendocrine tumor in a three-year-old female roe deer (Capreolus capreolus) that was shot due to a facial deformity caused by an oval, firm, exophytic lesion effacing the left frontal and parietal regions. …”
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Ovarian Mature Cystic Teratoma: Challenges of Surgical Management by Abha Sinha, Ayman A. A. Ewies

“…The search was limited to articles in English language, humans, and female. The two authors conducted the search independently. …”
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Deer Flies, Yellow Flies and Horse Flies, Chrysops, Diachlorus, and Tabanus spp. by Jason M. Squitier

“… The family Tabanidae, commonly known as horse flies, and deer flies, contains pests of cattle, horses and humans. In Florida there are 35 species of Tabanidae that are classed as economically important. …”
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Eldgjá and Laki: Two large Icelandic fissure eruptions and a historical-critical approach for interdisciplinary researchers working on past nature-induced disasters by Stephan F. Ebert, Katrin Kleemann

“…The integration of archives of societies with archives of nature has led to collaborations between the natural sciences and the humanities. Not all those involved consider these archives equal, which led to some studies featuring explanations promoting nature as the prime agent in history. …”
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In Utero Stem Cell Transplantation: Potential Therapeutic Application for Muscle Diseases by Neeladri Chowdhury, Atsushi Asakura

“…We therefore propose in utero transplantation as a potential method to generate patient-derived humanized skeletal muscle as well as muscle stem cells in animals for therapeutic purposes as well as patient-specific drug screening.…”
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Modeling Airflow Using Subject-Specific 4DCT-Based Deformable Volumetric Lung Models by Olusegun J. Ilegbusi, Zhiliang Li, Behnaz Seyfi, Yugang Min, Sanford Meeks, Patrick Kupelian, Anand P. Santhanam

“…The lung is modeled as a poroelastic medium with subject-specific anisotropic poroelastic properties on a geometry, which was reconstructed from four-dimensional computed tomography (4DCT) scan datasets of humans with lung cancer. The results include the 3D anisotropic lung deformation for known airflow pattern inside the lungs. …”
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