The etiology of sleeping sickness was unknown until the early twentieth century. This African disease soon became the main obstacle to European colonization. Sending scientific missions to the colonies to monitor its progression in loco thus became inevitable. Portugal sent the first research mission to Angola in 1901, and the Royal Society of London sponsored two British missions to study the ...

BACKGROUND The hoverfly Pseudodoros nigricollis Becker, 1903 is a rarely collected species, of which information on its distribution and ecology is poorly understood. NEW INFORMATION In this paper the first records of the hoverfly Pseudodoros nigricollis from Cyprus are provided and discussed. The discovery indicates that this Afrotropical species is approaching the European continent. Short ...

turkish words in the texts of persian language and literature show the deep and long relations between two languages. and because the diwan-e-hafiz (hafiz’s complete works), in which the persian lyric poetry achieves its most flourishing perfection, is not an exception, some of its 35 turkish words are going to be surveyed to determine their morphophonemic in this paper. hoping to be considered...