Chromolaena odorata (Asteraceae: Eupatorieae) is a sprawling shrub native to the Americas, and a destructive invader of much of the humid tropics and subtropics of the Old World.Opportunistic native-range exploration in 1995 identified a stem-boring weevil, Lixus aemulus, as a promising biological control candidate agent.Host-specificity testing wa
Second opinion and discrepancy in the diagnosis of soft tissue lesions at surgical pathology
Objective: To determine the frequency and magnitude of discrepancies in the surgical pathological diagnosis of soft tissue lesions on review and second opinion in a histopathology center.Study Design: Cross-sectional, observational.Place and Duration of Study: Department of Histopathology, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Rawalpindi, from April
Effects of early postnatal hyperoxia exposure combined with early ovalbumin sensitization on lung inflammation and bacterial flora in a juvenile mouse model of asthma
ObjectiveThe aim of this study is to explore the effects of early postnatal hyperoxia exposure combined with early ovalbumin (OVA) sensitization on lung inflammation and bacterial flora in neonatal mice on a juvenile mouse model of asthma.MethodsThirty-two newborn female C57BL/6 J mice were randomly divided into four groups, which including room ai
Performance Analysis of a Polling Model With BMAP and Across-Queue State-Dependent Service Discipline
As various video services become popular, video streaming will dominate the mobile data traffic.The H.264 standard has been widely used for video compression.As the successor to H.264, H.265 can compress video streaming better, hence it is gradually gaining market share.However, in the short term H.264 will not be completely replaced, and will co-e