Remarkable Fossil Oysters from Syria

PolicyMiner: From Oysters to Pearls

Today, a historically unprecedented volume of data is available in the public domain with the potential of becoming useful for researchers. More than at any other time before, political parties and governments are making data available such as speeches, legislative bills and acts. However, as the size of available data increases, the need for sophisticated tools for web-harvesting and data anal...

Energy from Fossil Fuels.

Characterization of Vibrio cholerae isolated from oysters.

Of 790 samples of oyster shellstock freshly harvested during a 12-month survey, 111 (most of which were harvested from June through August) contained Vibrio cholerae non-O1 (611 strains), and seven contained O1 Inaba (11 strains) organisms. None of the V. cholerae strains isolated were enterotoxigenic by immunological and biological tests.

Oral health in Syria.

The aim of this paper is to describe and analyse the oral health situation in Syria in the last two decades and to propose recommendations for improvement of the current situation. The epidemiological data on caries of the last two decades did not indicate a decrease in the DMFT value of various age groups, nor was a decrease in the percentage of untreated caries apparent. The unequal distribut...

Cutaneous Leishmaniasis in Syria

Cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) is a public health problem in Syria call for this parasite’s epidemiological and evolutionary investigation. Evaluation of its population structure by multilocus enzyme electrophoresis (MLEE), current gold standard for classification, has some drawbacks ,such as the lack of discriminatory power below species level, it is labour intensive and time-consuming. In this ...