The increasing rate of irreversible damages to natural habitats has reinforced the need for gathering biodiversity fundamental data to conservation. Priority setting is the most important step in protection programs. Solanaceae as the the one of important economic families of eudicots distributed throughout North and South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia, and the South Pacific. Up to n...

On 07 February 2021, around 10:30 hrs local time catastrophic flash flood occurred in the Dhauliganga River (a tributary of Ganga River) near Rini village at 2000 m above MSL (mean sea level) (Chamoli District), which killed 79 people and about 125 were missing. Part area belongs to Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve, is completely protected from human interventions. Further, on River, two run-of-riv...

The protection forest system for Taipei City, the capital of Taiwan, was established in 1907. The social and natural environment had changed drastically in the past few decades, however, the maps and cadastral records of these forests were not updated accordingly. In this study, digital surveying techniques were used to survey the boundaries, sample plots, and land use of the protection forests...

BACKGROUND The rate of community-acquired Clostridium difficile infection (CA-CDI) is increasing. While receipt of antibiotics remains an important risk factor for CDI, studies related to acquisition of C. difficile outside of hospitals are lacking. As a result, risk factors for exposure to C. difficile in community settings have been inadequately studied. MAIN OBJECTIVE To identify novel env...

BACKGROUND The Center for Disability Resources (CDR) Library is the largest collection of its kind in the Southeastern United States, consisting of over 5,200 books, videos/DVDs, brochures, and audiotapes covering a variety of disability-related topics, from autism to transition resources. The purpose of the library is to support the information needs of families, faculty, students, staff, and ...

BACKGROUND Obesity researchers increasingly use geographic information systems to measure exposure and access in neighborhood food and physical activity environments. This paper proposes a network buffering approach, the "sausage" buffer. This method can be consistently and easily replicated across software versions and platforms, avoiding problems with proprietary systems that use different ap...

background: geographical information system is a new tool in environmental epidemiology that makes the opportunity of visualization and analysis of spatial data. the aim of this study was to determine the geographic variation of low birth weight using geographic information system in order to evaluate the efficacy of primary health care and health information system.   methods: low birth weight...