BACKGROUND Intestinal parasitic infections (IPIs) are one of the major public health problems, especially in the rural area of developing countries with low socio-economic status and poor sanitation. The study was aimed to determine the prevalence of IPIs among the inhabitants of a rural area in South West Sumba, eastern part of Indonesia. METHODS A cross-sectional study was done in Kalena Ro...

Historical patterns of diversity, biogeography and faunal turnover remain poorly understood for Wallacea, the biologically and geologically complex island region between the Asian and Australian continental shelves. A distinctive Quaternary vertebrate fauna containing the small-bodied hominin Homo floresiensis, pygmy Stegodon proboscideans, varanids and giant murids has been described from Flor...

At least since the Neolithic, humans have largely lived in networks of small, traditional communities. Often socially isolated, these groups evolved distinct languages and cultures over microgeographic scales of just tens of kilometers. Population genetic theory tells us that genetic drift should act quickly in such isolated groups, thus raising the question: do networks of small human communit...

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk melakukan evaluasi sistem pemeliharaan tradisional terhadap pemenuhan kebutuhan pakan sapi potong peranakan ongole (PO) dalam menunjang produktivitasnya. telah dilaksanakan di Kecamatan Bolangitang Barat Kabupaten Bolaang Mongondow utara pada bulan Juni 2021. Pada penelitian menggunakan sampel 20 ekor PO berumur antara 2 – 4 tahun. Metode yang digunakan adalah des...

Kathani cattle is not a registered breed, consequently, these animals are categorized as non-descript in the Livestock Census of Government India. The population about 10.51 lakh. Data 9474 spread over 118 villages distributed 13 tehsils 3 districts (Chandrapur, Gadchiroli, and Gondia) from Vidarbha region eastern Maharashtra was collected under survey, evaluation, characterization network proj...

The small pseudoscorpion family Pseudochiridiidae Chamberlin, 1923 comprises two genera and 12 extant species recorded from Asia (Burma, Christmas Island, Indonesia, India, Nepal, Malaysia, New Guinea, Philippines, Nicobars and Sumba), eastern, central and southern Africa (Chad, D.R. Congo, Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania), Madagascar, Seychelles (Aldabra), North America (Florida) and the Caribbe...