There are some biological differences in epilepsy between the Asia and the West, mainly related to the young average age and the smaller physique among Asians. The climatic differences partly account for the higher prevalence of Japanese encephalitis and malaria, which remains important causes of acute symptomatic seizures in parts of Asia. By comparison, psychosocial, cultural, economic, polit...

A geophysical investigation involving the vertical electrical sounding (VES) electrical resistivity methods was carried out around Pydibhimavaram Industrial area Srikakulam district Andhra Pradesh. Vertical Electrical Sounding (VES) using Schlumberger array was conducted at thirteen (13) VES stations. The study was carried out with a view to determine the subsurface layer parameters (resistivit...

The current Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak in West Africa is the worst epidemic of Ebola since the first case was officially reported in 1976. The “traveling” of the infection from Guinea and Liberia to other parts of West Africa, Europe, and America has caused anxiety and panic. To control exportation and importation of EVD, the World Health Organization recommends exit screening in Guinea...

Blastomycosis is a potentially fatal fungal infection endemic to parts of North America. We used national multiple-cause-of-death data and census population estimates for 1990-2010 to calculate age-adjusted mortality rates and rate ratios (RRs). We modeled trends over time using Poisson regression. Death occurred more often among older persons (RR 2.11, 95% confidence limit [CL] 1.76, 2.53 for ...

Chest X-rays of 1057 potential Gurkha recruits from East Nepal and 964 from West Nepal were examined. Seventy-four X-rays from Eastern Nepalis showed changes suggestive of past or present tuberculosis (including 18 with calcified primary complexes) but only 34 (five with calcified primary complexes) from Western Nepalis suggesting that there is a higher tuberculosis infection rate in men from E...

West Nile virus (WNV) was introduced to New York in 1999 and rapidly spread throughout North America and into parts of Central and South America. Displacement of the original New York (NY99) genotype by the North America/West Nile 2002 (NA/WN02) genotype occurred in 2002 with subsequent identification of a novel genotype in 2003 in isolates collected from the southwestern Unites States region (...

Germany has seen a high and rising rate of anti-foreigner violence during the early 1990s. To analyze the determinants of crime against foreigners we assembled a new dataset on the number and nature of such crime at the county level based on newspaper reports. We find significant differences in the patterns of violence in the eastern and western parts of the country. The incidence of anti-forei...

This paper views corruption as activity that tends to undermine a cultural system. Because cultures operate in very different ways, different activities are corrupting in different parts of the world. The paper analyzes real-life situations in Japan, Taiwan, India, China, North America, sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, and Korea to distinguish actions that structurally undermine a cultural ...

The overall total population of the Arab nations in the world is estimated to be approximately 315 million (estimates; World Almanac, 2004). Arab populations encompass a vast geographical region that extends from Iraq in the east to Morocco in the west. They occupy the whole of Mesopotamia, Middle East, Arabian Gulf, North Africa, as well as some parts of East and West Africa. Arab populations ...