this report presents a new record of iranolacerta brandtii brandtii from 30 km south of tekab city, west azarbaijan province and 130 km south of the previously known distribution range of the subspecies; a new record of iranolacerta zagrosica in kaljonun mountain peak, lorestan province, about 70 km northwest of the type locality; a new record of apathya cappadocica urmiana in the manesht prote...

Four to 10 Dorper sheep on each of 12 farms in the Cape Province and 3 farms in the Orange Free State were examined for adult ixodid ticks at approximately 2- to 4-weekly intervals over periods varying from 4 to 18 months, commencing during January, February or April 1989. The farms in the Cape Province were located in the north-west, south-west and south of the province. Those in the Orange Fr...

In 1993, the IFLS began tracking more than 7,000 households living in one of 13 provinces representative of 83% of the Indonesian population. The third wave includes 6,661 of the original 7,224 households interviewed in 1993 as well as an additional 3,774 "split-off" households containing 1993 IFLS1 household members no longer living within the origin household. Slightly more than half of the s...

This paper analyzed multidimensional energy poverty in Nigeria at national and zonal levels using the 2009-10 National Living Standard Survey data. The study adopted the Nussbaumer, et al, (2011) methodology. National level results showed that 95 percent of Nigerians suffered energy poverty, deprived of 74 percent of the weighted indicators and had an MEPI of 70 percent. Energy poverty was foun...

As hand-harvest labor disappeared from the American cotton fields afterWorldWar II, labor market dynamics differed between two key production regions, the South and the West. In the South, predominantly resident African Americans and whites harvested cotton, whereas in theWest the labor market was composed of white residents, domestic Latino migrant workers, and Mexican nationals temporarily im...

run through some fertile valleys lying between the various mountain chains. In one of these valleys is situated the town of Muscat. The eastern half of the northern side is exposed to the sea, while the western half, east and south-east are closed up by the hills. The whole is enclosed by a high wall, with bastions on the west and south. Its breadth from north to south is about 800 feet, and it...

  ABSTRACT   Background : The application of DU emanation for first time contaminated certain areas in the south west region of Iraq after the second Gulf war (1991). These contaminated areas were discovered in 1994. Radioactive contamination was detected using the nuclear enterprise PCM5/1 in soil samples collected from two regions near by grazing lands. This study was done for assessment of D...

Traces of long-lived fallout-derived radioisotopes ((134)Cs and (137)Cs) were found in wet and dry deposition samples collected from the west and east coasts of South Korea from March to May 2011 following the release of radionuclides from the damaged nuclear power plants in Fukushima, Japan. The analysis of air mass back trajectory and atmospheric pressure systems indicated that the Fukushima-...

Transit station or destination? Attendance patterns, movements, and abundance estimate of 1 humpback whales off west South Africa from photographic and genotypic matching 2 J. Barendse, P.B. Best, M. Thornton, S.H. Elwen, H.C. Rosenbaum , I. Carvalho 3, , C. Pomilla , T.J.Q. 3 Collins , M. Meÿer, R. Leeney. 4 Mammal Research Institute, University of Pretoria, c/o Iziko South African Museum, P.O...

after the soviet :union: in newly independent georgia, the location of his gate and called the caucasus since this position tremendous impact on how relations with russia and the west had in this country is a way to attack the topic georgian forces in south ossetia in 2008. md, the severe russian reaction to georgia's pro-west thought it had occurred, the incidence of and despite media eff...