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Migrant farmworkers in general are much more reliant upon personal contact and experience for acquiring information than on print or other mass media, and for this reason, health care providers, migrant ministries, and legal services conduct outreach to effectively serve farmworker populations.
Civilian agencies also are increasingly reliant on automated, often interconnected, systems, including the Internet, to support their operations.
Personal Communication with J. Urbas, Reliant Energy, August 13, 2001.
Females lack an estrous cycle and anestrous adults are dependent upon direct contact with a non-volatile male pheromone for induction of estrus [ 8 ] . Hormonal control of scentmarking and sexual behavior of this species (hereinafter, opossum) has been described in some detail [ 9 10 ] . Estrus is induced when females nuzzle scentmarks from the androgen-dependent suprasternal (chest) gland [ 10 11 ] . Nuzzling delivers nonvolatile chemical signals to the vomeronasal organ (VNO) [ 12 ] and surgical removal of the VNO prevents induction of estrus by scentmarks alone [ 13 ] , although cautery ablation of the VNO fails to prevent ovarian activation and ovulation in females that are caged with adult males [ 14 ] . While anestrous adults are reliant on male pheromone for reproductive activation, spontaneous postlactational estrus occurs in the absence of direct contact with male pheromone [ 15 ] .