The pygmy grasshopper subfamily Cladonotinae and genera Epitettix Hancock, 1907, Pseudepitettix Zheng, 1995 and Tuberfemurus Zheng, 1992 are firstly recorded from Thailand. Three new species, namely Epitettixobtusus obtusus sp. nov. from provinces Nakhon Ratchasima and Chiang Mai, Pseudepitettix pimkarnae sp. nov. from province Saraburi and Tuberfemurus kanokwanae sp. nov. from province Sarabur...

Title of Dissertation: ESSAYS ON TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT Devesh Roy, Doctor of Philosophy, 2004 Dissertation directed by: Professor Arvind Panagariya Department of Economics This dissertation involves two set of papers. The first chapter contains a brief introduction of the issues covered in this thesis. In the first set of papers (chapters 2 and 3) I investigate the use of product standards in i...

species composition, relative abundance, absolute abundance and biomass of sturgeon species were studied during the years 2008-2009. eighty five stations were covered in the stratified random sampling design in depths less than 1om using 9m bottom trawl (head line) and in depths more than 10m using 24.7m bottom trawl (head line). more than 70 specimens of acipenser persicus were caught during t...

Background: About 80% of deaths in 350 million cases of diabetes in the world occur in low and middle income countries. The aim of this study was to determine the status of diabetes socioeconomic inequality and the share of determinants of inequalities in Kurdistan Province, West of Iran, using two surveys in 2005 and 2009.   Methods: Data were collected from non-communicable disease su...

e Critical Care Canada Forum was held in Toronto, Canada from 25 to 28 October 2009 [1]. Th e conference, which focuses on the care of critically ill patients wherever the patients are located, was attended by 879 delegates and featured 197 separate presentations, includ ing several as yet unpublished trials. Th e hot topic this year was planning for the impact of a worldwide outbreak of H1N1 i...

A swine-origin influenza A was detected in April 2009 and soon became the 2009 H1N1 pandemic strain (H1N1pdm). The current study revealed the genetic diversity of H1N1pdm, based on 77 and 70 isolates which we collected, respectively, during the 2009/2010 and 2010/2011 influenza seasons in Taiwan. We focused on tracking the amino acid transitioning of hemagglutinin (HA) and neuraminidase (NA) ge...