Lasinus orientalis Yin & Bekchiev, new species, is described from the eastern Chinese provinces of Zhejiang and Jiangxi, with major diagnostic features illustrated. The new species is compared with, and distinguished from related congeners.

The multibillion-dollar trade in bushmeat is among the most immediate threats to the persistence of tropical vertebrates, but our understanding of its underlying drivers and effects on human welfare is limited by a lack of empirical data. We used 30 years of data from Ghana to link mammal declines to the bushmeat trade and to spatial and temporal changes in the availability of fish. We show tha...

PURPOSE In this study, the authors examined the influences of selected social (gender, employment status, educational achievement level) and style variables (race of examiner, interview topic) on the production of African American English (AAE) by adults. METHOD Participants were 50 African American men and women, ages 20-30 years. The authors used Rapid and Anonymous Survey (RAS) methods to ...

Cigarette smuggling reduces the price of cigarettes, thwarts youth access restrictions, reduces government revenue, and undercuts the ability of taxes to reduce consumption. The tobacco industry often opposes increases to tobacco taxes on the claim that greater taxes induce more smuggling. To date, little is known about the magnitude of smuggling in the Philippines. his information is necessary...

This study dealt with an important origin of Arabic grammar according to one the eleventh century grammarians، Sheikh Ibrahim Al-Qassab Al-Rumi known as (Ibn Al-Qassab) in his book (Al-Azhar). which he explained (Explanation Secrets Grammar) by Imam Muhammad bin Bir Ali Al-Barkawi، who died (981 AH).This came highlight distinguished scientific efforts personality grammatical explanation what ha...

theology has always been one of basic and essential topics in the holy quran and imam's quotes. there are many examples – especially in the speeches of imam ali (as) – which is explaining different ways of theology. most important of these ways are the nature, the intellectual-sensorial method and the intellectual-philosophic method. since the most valuable book for constructing man's...

justice is an original fact in the universe. it isnot conventional. and, it refers to the consideration of proportion in doing anything. imam ali lived in harmony with the originally created justice in the universe. he observed the justice in the heavens and the earth and did his best to apply it to his own life and to the islamic society, as well. he thought justice was the cause for the survi...