Background The International Health Regulations (IHR) (2005) is a legal instrument binding all World Health Organization (WHO) member States. It aims to prevent and control public health emergencies of international concern. Country points of entry (POEs) have been identified as potential areas for effective interventions to prevent the transmission of infectious diseases across borders. The ag...

Genomic imprinting is a phenomenon that arises when the expression of genes depends on the parental origin of alleles. Epigenetic mechanisms may induce the full or partial suppression of maternal or paternal alleles, thereby leading to different types of imprinting. However, imprinting effects have received little consideration in animal breeding programmes, although their relevance to some agr...

All abstract excerpts (save for Tsokanos’s) are copied from the ProQuest Dissertations and Theses online database.“Missing Homes” examines three nineteenth-century authors whose experiences of displacement home, professions and/or class influenced their literary innovations…. Attention to these authors, I argue, offers a parallel theory nostalgia in which unsettled longing place call home regis...

Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) commonly known as gram or Bengal belongs to the family Leguminaceae (Fabaceae). It's one of most important rabi season pulse crops grown in India for economic importance and improve soil fertility. The productivity chickpea is low despite having high-yielding varieties new agronomic practices. One causes poor infestation weeds field chickpea. It a competitor becaus...