BACKGROUND Endemic pemphigus foliaceus (EPF) is an autoimmune disease, classically occurring in a restricted geographic area. Foci of EPF have been described in several Central and South American countries, often affecting young people and Amerindians, with some female predilection. Although most American EPF cases have been documented in Brazil, cases have been reported in Peru, Paraguay, El S...

We analyzed 1041 individuals belonging to 17 Amerindian tribes of Colombia, Chimila, Bari and Tunebo (Chibcha linguistic family), Embera, Waunana (Choco linguistic family), Puinave and Nukak (Maku-Puinave linguistic families), Cubeo, Guanano, Tucano, Desano and Piratapuyo (Tukano linguistic family), Guahibo and Guayabero (Guayabero Linguistic Family), Curripaco and Piapoco (Arawak linguistic fa...

The field of medicine originated in ancient times and developed according to society's values. Religious beliefs, lifestyles, customs shape national medicine, which turn is shaped by history culture. This culture, known the scientific literature as "folk medicine," also existed Kazakh society. cultural manifestation, dubbed "Field Medicine" our article, was documented written sources from Karak...

The Danube Basin is the most extensive part of Central European basin area (with Czech- and Vienna Basins). critical peculiarity geographical landscape significant expansion temporarily or permanently water-covered areas. In traditional age, size regions depended to a degree on climate changes. important regional that global changes in are reflected primarily not temperature but rather levels p...

This paper describes a multithreaded runtime system for distributed memory multicomputers that significantly reduces the number of message transfers when compared to conventional " remote memory access " approaches. Instead of statically executing on its assigned processor and fetching data from remote storage, a Nomadic Thread transfers itself to the processor which contains the data it needs....

The achievements in pervasive and nomadic computing, today, allow us to take and use our mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets everywhere we go. However, the mobility came at a cost: the small screen space of mobile devices leads to a deficient Human-ComputerInteraction (HCI) across several aspects, ranging from missing overview and awareness about the own digital information flow, to ...

no more than 150 words): Mobile and wearable computing and wireless multimedia communication enable new forms of user adaptive applications that are becoming popular in these days. Users of nomadic information systems either have connected devices with them all the time or can use existing stationary devices to access a nomadic system personalized to their needs. This class of applications brin...

this paper is an attempt to fill all of previous literature of coccinellidae records and species distribution in different provinces of iran. distribution was extracted for each species from literatures. there are 6 subfamilies, 16 tribes, 32 genus and 117 species in iran. the largest subfamily, tribe and genus in iran were scymninae, scymnini and scymnus, respectively. the most distribution wa...