Day surgery in this context is safe, cost efficient and expands the surgical possibilities within our department and specialty.”
“Temperature-dependent photoluminescence of MgZnO alloy film has been studied, and it is found that the emission intensity increases significantly at a certain temperature range and then decreases when increasing temperature further. The anomalous increase is resulted from the localized excitons in MgZnO alloy, as revealed by the enhanced second-order longitudinal optical phonon in the Raman spectrum of the MgZnO film. A schematic model was suggested to depict
the carrier transportation process in the MgZnO film considering the existence of localized exciton states. The results reported in this paper indicate that localized excitons in MgZnO alloy can result in greatly enhanced emission efficiency, which is eagerly wanted for the application of ZnO-based materials in high-efficiency light-emitting Thiazovivin datasheet devices.”
“Bee males selleck chemicals (drones) of stingless bees tend to congregate near entrances of conspecific nests, where they wait for virgin queens that initiate their nuptial flight. We observed that the Neotropical solitary wasp Trachypus boharti (Hymenoptera, Cabronidae) specifically preys
on males of the stingless bee Scaptotrigona postica (Hymenoptera, Apidae); these wasps captured up to 50 males per day near the entrance of a single hive. Over 90% of the wasp attacks were unsuccessful; such erroneous attacks often involved conspecific wasps and worker bees. After the capture of non-male prey, wasps almost immediately released these individuals unharmed and continued hunting. A simple behavioral experiment showed that selleck at short distances wasps were not specifically attracted to S. postica males nor were they repelled by workers of the same species. Likely, short-range prey detection near the bees’ nest is achieved mainly by vision whereas close-range prey recognition is based principally on chemical and/or mechanical cues. We argue that the dependence on the wasp’s visual perception during attack and the crowded and dynamic hunting conditions caused wasps to make many
preying attempts that failed. Two wasp-density-related factors, wasp-prey distance and wasp-wasp encounters, may account for the fact that the highest male capture and unsuccessful wasp bee encounter rates occurred at intermediate wasp numbers.”
“Background Since the introduction of primary care teams, referral patterns of General Practitioners (GPs) in Ireland have not been studied.
Aims To study the referral patterns of GPs within a primary care team (PCT) to allied health care professionals in a PCT and to secondary care. To identify indirect referral pathways. To study variation in individual GP referral patterns.
Method Questionnaire based survey. Statistical analysis was carried out using Epi Info version 3.5.1.
Results Of 3,166 consultations, 2,841 (89.