Hand hygiene product usage characteristics by food employees when hand sanitizers are made available are not well understood.To investigate hand hygiene product usage in casual dining and quick-service restaurants, we placed automated monitoring soap and sanitizer dispensers side-by-side at handwash sinks used by food employees in seven restaurants
Energy budget, behavior and leptin in striped hamsters subjected to food restriction and refeeding.
Food restriction induces a loss of body mass that is often followed by rapid regaining of the lost weight when the restriction ends, consequently increasing a risk of development of obesity.To determine the physiological and behavioral mechanisms underlining the regaining, striped hamsters were restricted to 85% of initial food intake for 4 weeks a
Parampelomyia, another new gall midge genus (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) associated with Vitaceae, with description of a new species developing in flower buds of the porcelain berry in Japan
We describe a gall midge Parampelomyia Policosanol yukawai Elsayed and Tokuda gen.nov.sp.nov.belonging to the subtribe Schizomyiina (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae: Asphondyliini) based on an integrative taxonomic study.This species forms barely-swollen flower bud galls on the porcelain berry Ampelopsis brevipedunculata var.heterophylla (Vitaceae) in Japan