BACKGROUND The objective of this study was to investigate the indigenous utilization of termite mounds and termites in a rain-fed rice growing village in the central plain of Laos, where rice production is low and varies year-to-year, and to assess the possibility of sustainable termite mound utilization in the future. This research was carried out from 2007 to 2009. METHODS The termites were...

As a contribution to the complex matter of the relation of Humankind to its environment, light is cast on the thinking and behaviour of the villagers of the northern Adriatic island of Cres. On the basis of a number of phenomena from husbandry as practiced by the people of Cres at the beginning of the 20th century, their relation towards natural resources can be identified, together with the ma...

Icon 10 WP insecticide, a wettable powder formulation containing 10% lambda-cyhalothrin, was evaluated for possible adverse effects on the health of spraymen and villagers during treatment of dwellings for malaria vector control. Skin sensory effects and occasional coughing and sneezing in confined spaces were the only symptoms noted by the workers resulting from the handling and spraying of th...

Persons with disabilities have major reasons for use of adaptive systems. These individuals are often handicapped by not having access to traditional forms of communication and information. An individual who is blind cannot read print information. A person who is deaf cannot usually obtain information directly via telephone. An individual with a speech impairment may have the same problem with ...

We draw on three illustrative vignettes to examine how REBs manage participants’ agency in the context of qualitative research. ask: Who owns a participant’s consent? Central informed consent is principle Respect for Persons, which privileges autonomy individuals make decisions about what happens (or not) them. Yet, sometimes require researchers get permission from organizations conduct researc...

to empower the farmer villagers, execution of training programs including semi-presence training, open training and virtual training is essential. the main purpose of the present research is to determine the factors affecting the enabler trainings to farmer villagers with an emphasis on the component of culture and education technology using the interpretative structural modeling together with ...

Its fair to say that when it comes to global entities that matter to us, we are quite obsessed with finding out what other people think about them. In the past, querying people’s opinions with respect to a global entity such as Michael Jackson, Microsoft or Cuba was done through user polls funded by organizations and only a small percentage of these questionable polls trickled to the average pe...

As a part of a broader effort to determine the status of Paragonimus species infection in Lao PDR, an epidemiological survey was conducted on villagers and schoolchildren in Namback District between 2003 and 2005. Among 308 villagers and 633 primary and secondary schoolchildren, 156 villagers and 92 children evidenced a positive reaction on a Paragonimus skin test. Only 4 schoolchildren out of ...