Parents' knowledge and understanding of skin cancer and skin self-examination and behaviors to protect their children from the sun.

Purpose: The aim of this study was to determine parents' knowledge of skin cancer and skin self-examination (SSE) and their efforts to protect their school aged children from the sun.

Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted between November 2018 and November 2019 in Turkey with 1004 parents of middle school students.

Results: Of the parents, 53.

Striga Biocontrol on a Toothpick: A Readily Deployable and Inexpensive Method for Smallholder Farmers.

Striga hermonthica (witchweed) is a parasitic weed that attacks and significantly reduces the yields of maize, sorghum, millet, and sugarcane throughout sub-Saharan Africa. Low cost management methods such as hand weeding, short crop rotations, trap cropping, or conventional biocontrol have not been effective. Likewise, Striga-tolerant or herbicide-resistant maize cultivars are higher yielding, but are often beyond the economic means of sustenance farmers.