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Pelajau, Pentaspadon annamense (Evrard and Tardieu) P.H. Hô. is an endangered tree species of the Malesian region with fruits similar in eating quality to the walnut. The fruit has potential as a food ingredient in lieu of walnut. Laut Island in South Kalimantan Province, of Indonesia is one of its habitats but forests there are being converted to tree plantations and to settlements, thus the pelajau populations are being reduced.

Gram pod borer, H. armigera (Hub.) is one of the voracious pests of chickpea that needs considerable attention for the management. Thus, present studies were conducted to find out the elite genotype from the existing materials. Ten different genotypes were tested in two different locations; Upper zone (Dokri, Larkana) and Lower zone (Tandojam) of Sindh province of Pakistan. The results regarding the pod infestation revealed significant (P < 0.05 = 0.0000) difference among ten tested genotypes.

It was sought to analyze the incidence rate of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome - AIDS in children from zero to five years of age, aiming to translate the panorama of AIDS in northeastern Brazil. It was developed a quantitative study of the temporal trend of the annual incidence rate of cases in children under five years of age, residing in Northeastern Brazil, from the records between the years 2005 and 2015. An analysis was conducted (ANOVA one-way), to verify the difference between the average of observations of incidence rates.

Introduction: The red propolis is a resinous product consumed in the Brazil, of botanical origin of Dalbergia ecastophyllum. The Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a non-fermentative bacillus, negative gram. Objective: To evaluate the antibacterial activity of the hydro alcoholic extract of red propolis over strains of Pseudomonas aeruginosa (ATCC27853). Method: Exploratory research, in vitro. The sample of red propolis was obtained in the apiary in João Pessoa – PB, Northeast, Brazil.

The studies found in the literature indicate that high-impact physical exercise is a risk factor for urinary incontinence, but it has been observed that there is a gap in studies including the Crossfit® modality. Thus, the objective of the present study is to verify the prevalence of stress urinary incontinence in women practicing Crossfit®. This is a prospective cross-sectional study, where the sample consisted of ninety-one women, of whom 50 were non-practitioners of physical activity and 41 were Crossfit® practitioners.

Tamil Nadu being a water scarce State, micro irrigation needs to be promoted extensively for both the agricultural and horticultural crops. Considering the importance of farm ponds in providing life saving irrigation to crops at the tail-end of Cauvery Delta and coastal areas, the Government will take up 10,000 more farm ponds at a cost of Rs.100 crore. Overall for the agricultural sector, a sum of Rs.8,916.25 crore is allocated in the Budget Estimates 2018-2019.

The milk sweet is an important food produced and marketed, mainly in Brazil and Argentina, with high content of nutrients, resulting from the cooking of the mixture of milk and sugar, added flavoring or not, until their concentration and caramelisation. Failures during its processing or storage increases the risk of contamination to the consumer. In addition, microbiological analyzes are essential to meet the hygiene conditions in which food is prepared, the risks to the health of the consumer and the shelf life of desired.

The role of forest resources in rural livelihood and income generation in Nigeria cannot be overemphasized. The ecological, social, economic and environmental roles of the forest could not be dispensed with. The rate of increase in Nigeria population is very high. As a result, there is also increase in the demand for forest resources and land for agricultural purposes. This has led to the wanton removal of the forest ecosystem. This paper considered forest reservation efforts in Nigeria.

The Azadirachta Indica is a plant of the Meliaceae family, species originating in Southeast Asia and the Indian subcontinent, commonly used in several Brazilian municipalities for afforestation. The rising generation of municipal waste requires that there are alternatives to circumvent/ minimize environmental problems. One of the possibilities to circumvent this problem is the reuse of solid waste from the pruning of trees as biomass for power generation, where through the briquetting, you can compress the waste and transform them into a renewable energy source.

The levels of heavy metals contaminations of both soil and water were investigated at Ondo state waste dumping site at Igbatoro road, new stadium scrap market and FUTA research farm. Eight different heavy metals (Zn, Cr, Cu, Cd, Pb, Co, Fe and Ni) were measured in eight sampling units of soil, four from each dump site. These heavy metals were also analysed for water samples from four sampling units, two samples from each dump site and for maize plant, four samples, three from dumpsite and one from FUTA research farm as control.