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Global Change in Mountain Regions The Mountain Research Initiative
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متن کاملNeutralization of Bitis parviocula (Ethiopian mountain adder) venom by the South African Institute of Medical Research (SAIMR) antivenom.
BACKGROUND The Ethiopian mountain adder (Bitis parviocula) is a viperid known only from a few locations in southwestern Ethiopia. METHODS a total of 30 µg of B. arietans and B. parviocula venoms were run on a 10-20% Tricine gel. To assay lethality dose fifty (LD50), five groups of eight mice for each venom were used. Hemorrhagic activity for crude venom was tested. Fibrinogenolytic activity o...
متن کاملDown from the Mountain
The Appalachian region has experienced persistently higher poverty and lower earnings than the rest of the United States. We examine whether lower skill differentials or differences in the returns to those skills lie at the root of the persistent Appalachian wage gap. Using Census data, we decompose the Appalachian wage gap using both mean and full distribution methods. Our findings suggest tha...
متن کاملUnder the Mountain
This paper addresses questions of friendship and political community by investigating a particular complex case, comradeship in the life of the soldier. Close attention to soldiers’ accounts of their own lives, successes and failures shows that the relationship of friendship to comradeship, and of both to the success of the soldier’s individual and communal life, is complex and tense. I focus o...
متن کاملMalaria climbs the mountain
Malaria continues to be a scourge of many tropical countries and climate change seems to be adding to the problem. A seven-fold increase in cases of malaria on the slopes of Mount Kenya have been found by a team of Kenyan and British researchers. A 2ºC increase in average temperatures around the mountain in the past 20 years has allowed the disease to creep into higher-altitude areas, where the...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Mountain Research and Development
سال: 2000
ISSN: 0276-4741,1994-7151
DOI: 10.1659/0276-4741(2000)020[0280:tmi]2.0.co;2