Western Bahr el Ghazal State is located in northwestern South Sudan, which is a tropical area subject to Plasmodium falciparum malaria epidemics. The aim of this study is to explore the epidemiological and clinical features of Plasmodium falciparum malaria in United Nations personnel stationed in this area. From July 2006 to June 2009, epidemiological data and medical records of 678 patients wi...

Abstract The Lake Chad Basin is Africa’s largest endorheic basin. Because water supply for the rural population and most of urban depends on groundwater, assessment groundwater recharge crucial. Recharge sources upper Quaternary aquifer are precipitation, rivers, swamps. Using chemistry, environmental ( 18 O, 2 H, 3 H) carbon 14 C) isotopes, processes can be assessed ages roughly estimated. For...

BACKGROUND There is a general lack of knowledge regarding disability and especially factors that are associated with disability in low-income countries. We aimed to study the overall and gender-specific prevalence of disability, and the association between exposure to traumatic events and disability in a post-conflict setting. METHODS We conducted a cross-sectional community based study of fo...

A novel murine membrane-associated protein kinase, PKK (protein kinase C-associated kinase), was cloned on the basis of its physical association with protein kinase Cbeta (PKCbeta). The regulated expression of PKK in mouse embryos is consistent with a role for this kinase in early embryogenesis. The human homolog of PKK has over 90% identity to its murine counterpart, has been localized to chro...

HE so-called “normal” variations in the human karyotype found in clinically Tnormal individuals have been useful for linkage studies as chromosome markers (e.g., No. 1 and No. 16 chromosomes) (DONAHUE et al. 1968; MAGENIS, HECHT and LOVIEN 1970). The old order Amish in the United States are an inbred group that has been extensively studied genetically ( MCKUSICK, HOSTETLER and EGELAND 1964). Du...

a distance of 184 miles from Raipur (C.P.)and there is a metalled road connecting the two cities (see map). Although there is a distinct mention of yaws being a rare disease in India (Manson-Bahr, 1935), Bastar State appears to have a very heavy incidence?as a matter of fact yaws is one of the most common diseases in the State. Yaws, however, does not affect the better class of people or other ...

Volume-area power law scaling, one of a set of analytical scaling techniques based on principals of dimensional analysis, has become an increasingly important and widely used method for estimating the future response of the world's glaciers and ice caps to environmental change. Over 60 papers since 1988 have been published in the glaciological and environmental change literature containing appl...

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