BACKGROUND Rodents with a population greater than the entire population of other mammals on earth are the source of economic losses and health conflicts. One of the major health problems with the rodents is their role as reservoir hosts of zoonotic diseases. The aim of this study was to assess the infestation of commensal rodents with ectoparasites in Hamedan City, Western Iran. METHODS The s...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES In India, malaria is a major public health problem in States having predominantly tribal population. The objective of this analysis was to find out the incidence of malaria in various States/districts having varied proportions of tribal population using National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme (NVBDCP) data. METHODS States and districts were classified into thre...

b a ckground: cutaneous leishmaniasis (cl) represents the most frequent vector borne parasitoses in iran. the ob-jective of this study was to determine the epidemiological features of cl including human infection and the reservoir host in the city of bushehr, bushehr province, iran during 2010–2011. m e t hods: studies on human infection was carried out on 2962 school children aged 7–14 years o...

BACKGROUND Climate change is anticipated to affect human health by changing the distribution of known risk factors. Heat waves have had debilitating effects on human mortality, and global climate models predict an increase in the frequency and severity of heat waves. The extent to which climate change will harm human health through changes in the distribution of heat waves and the sources of un...

We compute charmonium and bottomonium decay widths in two photons or two leptons and the masses of baryons comprising two heavy quarks, solving the Salpeter equation. Baryons are considered as bound states of a quark and a diquark. The interaction energy of a quark-antiquark pair comes from the AdS/QCD correspondence.

Huajun She, Rong-Rong Chen, Dong Liang, Edward DiBella, and Leslie Ying Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Shenzhen, China, People's Republic of, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, United States, Department of Radiol...

Environmental Practice 13:16–27 (2011) D avis, California, often referred to as the bicycle capital of America since becoming the first city to gain “platinum” status from the League of American Bicyclists, should also be renowned for another reason: road safety. From 1997 through 2007, the years examined for this study, Davis experienced only 14 fatal road crashes within city limits, and 10 of...

To improve the level of preparedness against potential bioterrorist incidents, civilian medical communities in the United States have much to do. Developing effective responses hinge on information technologies namely detection, isolation, communications and education. This paper describes our efforts in integrating these technologies at the National Bioterrorism Civilian Medical Response Cente...