Importation of Petroleum

Importation and Innovation

Importation of Poliomyelitis by Travelers

To the Editor: In July 2007, an Australian traveler imported polio from Pakistan to Australia (1). He was a 22-year-old man who had immigrated to Australia and had traveled to his country of origin (Pakistan) to visit friends and relatives. Pakistan is one of 4 countries (Afghanistan, India, Nigeria, Pakistan) where polio is still endemic. A diagnosis of polio was made shortly after his return ...

Importation of Aedes albopictus in Townsville, Queensland.

The mosquito Aedes albopictus (Ae. albopictus) is a vector of dengue virus in southeast Asia. However, it is most notable for its accidental introductions into and subsequent colonisation of new areas. Ae. albopictus importations, primarily via used tyres infested with eggs, have been documented in the United States of America, Europe and Australia. The vector has become established in the sout...

Translation Norms and the Importation of the Novel into Persian

The exportation of modern novel from European languages to other literatures has long been the object of study and has been, most recently, evoked in discussions of World Literature. The introduction of modern novel into the Persian literary system through translation occurred about the turn of the twentieth century. The genre was unprecedented in Persian and the concept of adabiyat wa...

Automatic Importation of Relational Schemas in Pegasus

This paper describes a technique for importing automatically an external relational schema into Pegasus, a heterogeneous, multidatabase system. The Pegasus data model is a functional object model which supports specialization, object-identity, and nested aggregation. The import algorithm generates the definition of a Pegasus schema which captures the semantics of a relational schema containing ...