L. Fengquan 7 B. Jianmin College of Environment and Construction Engineering Changchun University of Science and Technology, Changchun City. 130026. P.R. China Abstract The Qinghai–Tibet Plateau uplifted 13000 m in the Quaternary period. The average rate of uplift was 1–1.1 mm/year. The uplifting has remolded the geomorphology of China. The landform in China was changed from west-low and east-h...

A survey is made of the incidence of peptic ulcer in a predominantly rural population in south-west Scotland.

Recently we investigated the heavy metal hazards of Nigerian smokeless tobacco products 'STP'. Since 'STPs' are advocated as safer alternatives to cigarets, the public health implication should be ascertained. This is a risk assessment of poly aromatic hydrocarbons 'PAHs' in 'STPs' used in Nigeria. Thirty 'STPs' from different parts (South East, South West, Niger Delta and North Central) of Nig...

We surveyed the attitudes of general practitioners to the notification of gazetted diseases in the south-west of Western Australia. Notification rates were calculated from the number of notifications recorded by the Southern Public Health Unit or the Communicable Disease Control Program of the State Health Department, and the estimated population of the region, the metropolitan area and the Sta...

This survey was carried out in targeted areas of South West Nigeria in order to inventory plants used by traditional healers in the area for the management of diabetes mellitus. One hundred traditional healers who know and use medicinal plants for treating diabetes mellitus were interviewed. The inventory contains scientific, vernacular, common names of the plants used and method of preparation...

The family Platyischnopidae is herein reported for the first time in the Argentine Sea, South-West Atlantic Ocean. A new genus and species, Platyisao holodividum gen. et. sp. nov., collected off the coast of Buenos Aires and Río Negro provinces, is fully described and illustrated. Platyisao gen. nov. is distinguished from the eight other genera of Platyischnopidae by the gnathopods subchelate, ...

General.?Barwadih, a railway settlement on the Gomoh-Sone East Bank branch of East Indian Railway, is 18 miles south-west of Daltonganj. It is situated 348 miles west of Calcutta in the hilly tracts of the Ranclii plateau in the Palamau district of Bihar province. The range of hills to the south of the colony is a branch of the Vindhyas. Physical geography and meteorological data. ?Latitude 23....

1Department of Respiratory Medicine and Allergology, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, South-1 West-17, Chuo-ku, Sapporo 060-8556, Japan 2Department of Respiratory Medicine, Teine Keijinkai Hospital, 1-40, Maeda 1-12, Teine-ku, Sapporo 006-8555, Japan *Corresponding author Masanori Shiratori, MD Associate Professor Department of Respiratory Medicine and Allergology Sapporo Medical ...

In 2015, approximately 6% of persons of all ages (20.1 million) in the United States delayed medical care during the preceding year because of worry about the cost, and 4.5% (14.2 million) did not receive needed medical care because they could not afford it. Persons living in the Northeast were significantly less likely than persons living in the Midwest, South, or West to delay or not receive ...