Animal production has moved quite rapidly to a consolidated structure of fewer, larger farms, ranches, and animal feeding units in both developed and developing countries. Driven by economies of scale arising from steady advances in technology, the trend shows no sign of slowing. This new structural concept and features increased concentration of large-scale livestock and specialty crop product...

Many hope that new media, -particularly the speed, global reach, and interactivity of the Internet, -will transform civic engagement and political mobilization in democracies. This process is believed to be particularly important in giving voice to the voiceless, strengthening NGOs in civic society, linking citizens with government services, and helping parties generate support among new groups...

JAMAICA: MORE TOBACCO, DESPITE FCTC Going against trends in most of the rest of the world, especially among countries committed to implementing to the WHO’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), Jamaica is increasing tobacco production. It is not just that the department of agriculture has decided to stimulate tobacco leaf growing, but recent events suggest a larger and more sinister ...

I n 1999, I led a team of Intel social scientists in an anthropological study of 100 households in the US and Europe that had been early adopters of broadband technology. One of the participants in this study was Sheila, a schoolteacher who had been the first person on her block to get high-speed Internet access because she wanted to videoconference with her granddaughter, who lived three time ...

Poverty impacts hundreds of millions of people around the world. Poor nutrition, housing and living conditions, and other adverse effects from poverty have a lasting impact on those unfortunate enough to be in poverty. In this paper, I test for convergence of the Watts index of poverty across over forty countries over a period of fifteen years. My model is based on a previous model formulated b...

Francesca Lake, Managing Editor, speaks to Chinnadorai Rajeswaran. Dr Rajeswaran is a consultant physician (Diabetes & Endocrinology) at Mid Yorkshire NHS Trust. He gained specialist training in Leeds, in diabetes and endocrinology. He has a special interest in obesity and is involved in research in obesity and diabetes. He also has a number of publications, book chapters and presentations to h...

Steven Oppenheimer, Editor of Acta histochemica, was awarded student interested in trying her or his hand at research. I believe if a 2009 U.S. Presidential Award based on the work presented in his Essay on Improving Science Education Worldwide after selection by the National Science Foundation and the White House. The presentation of the award by President Obama was made in the Blue Room of th...

The aim of this work was to analyze whether the treatment of acute rejection of orthotopic liver transplants (OLT), either with corticoids or OKT3, has any effect on levels of hepatitis B virus (HBV)-DNA and HbsAg in individuals which were originally affected by cirrhosis or fulminant hepatic failure as a result of B virus. We have found that HBV-DNA is present in macrophages, B cells and both ...

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objective: predoctoral dental implant education is included in dental school teaching curricula in most of the developed and some developing countries; however, it was not introduced into undergraduate curriculum of some countries and iranian dental schools. our purpose was to investigate the status of the predoctoral dental implant education of dental schools in the world. materials and method...