©AsiaPacific MediaEducator Issue No.11 July Dec. 2001 C socialist leadership has long embraced a fascination with science and technology. Newspeak from the Politburo proclaims the future of information technology. Political propaganda and market hype come together to promote the benefits of the new technological revolution. A journey from Beijing’s Capital airport to the city centre leaves visi...

The value of stool surveillance for antibiotic-resistant gram-negative bacteria was analyzed in 86 neutropenic bone marrow transplant patients. Twice-weekly specimens were inoculated onto culture medium containing gentamicin plus carbenicillin. The recovered organisms were identified to the species level and tested for antibiotic susceptibility. Forty-eight resistant organisms were recovered fr...

recently in a prominent journal that the number of deaths talcing place in one year from vaccination exceed the number of deaths resulting from smallpox itself. Now, is such a statement true or not ? There are many people about to-day who have a vague idea that vaccination has been in some way discredited. This is especially so among the intellectuals who are readier to believe Mr. Bernard Shaw

On the verge of the Constitutionalist Revolution in Iran, the three social forces existing in the socio-political arena were competing with each other and at the same time, struggling with the Monarchy to increase their share of power: independent intellectuals, traditional followers of religion, and merchants. This rivalry set the scene for a discursive battle in which, each social force was t...

Species of Fusarium have significant agro-economical and human health-related impact by infecting diverse crop plants and synthesizing diverse mycotoxins. Here, we investigated interactions of grain-feeding Tenebrio molitor larvae with four grain-colonizing Fusarium species on wheat kernels. Since numerous metabolites produced by Fusarium spp. are toxic to insects, we tested the hypothesis that...