Traditional rodent management tools, such as traps and lethal rodenticides, are acute measures to reduce commensal rodent populations. Given the growing concerns regarding effectiveness, environmental safety, and animal welfare related to these tools, it has become imperative to find new methods. Fertility control is an emerging potential alternative to these tools as a safe, humane and effective method of long-term population management. SenesTech, Inc. has developed a liquid fertility management bait that causes follicle depletion in the ovaries of female Sprague Dawley rats and compromises sperm production in male Sprague Dawley rats in laboratory settings. These studies have shown significant decreases in litter sizes following bait consumption, but acceptance of this bait by wild rodents needed to be confirmed. Bait acceptance was tested within refuse rooms of the New York City subway system. Bait was provided ad libitum for 90 days. Uptake was evaluated by examining, via fluorescence microscopy, the presence of the bait marker rhodamine B, which manifests as fluorescent bands in whiskers. Presence of these bands indicated that 51% of the captured population had consumed the bait, and of these, 58% had taken the bait more than once. These results demonstrate that wild rats will consume a liquid fertility management bait, even in the presence of highly palatable and abundant food within the refuse rooms. This study establishes the successful acceptance of a bait by wild rats. Further investigation is needed to evaluate the effectiveness of this product for the management of urban Norway rat populations.

The main purpose of this paper is to provide a methodology of decision which will help the Oil Companies Risk Managers to deal with some specific material risks, utilizing insurance coverage, in projects with private partners assuming the financial support of a new offshore facility construction and operation instead of Public sources. To that end, we will discuss a possible Risk Management process, which encloses the Loss matrix for risk assessment, in order to evaluate the worstloss scenario that can impact the cash flow of the business, which is structured by Project Finance modeling. 1. Introduction Nowadays, it is remarkable how the Government Authorities in developing countries have been looking for private resources in order to supply their needs of capital to implement the new infrastructure projects. The actual economic environment hides other typical measures used in the past, mainly the appearance of taxes to increase Public budget. Otherwise, as Aschauer (1) have mentioned in opposition to Keynes' classical Theory, in the present days there are many doubts that an increase on Public expense would result in an economic growth. Besides these facts, it has been a difficult task the attainment of funds from oversea institutions, either from Multilateral Agencies such as from International Banks or Syndicates. The aftermath of those harm conditions has been transforming the capital funding structure around the world. The traditional way of money borrowing (Corporate Finance) has been changed - from infrastructure projects to Project Finance basis. At the point of view of Corporate Finance, the lenders of a new project have been focused basically on recover their capital without bearing or at least considering risks involved others than the sponsors' capacity of debt service repayment. They analyze only the economic sponsors' health. Thus, they will spread an interest tax reflecting their financial sensibility of this kind of risk. On the other hand, with a different perspective, the Project Finance Modeltries to split the risks into all players of a new project. Although it is a more complex risk analysis form, it would generate a stronger financial structure in order to preserve all players rights enclosed.