The species composition and geographic distribution of ixodid ticks infesting domestic dogs owned by people in rural communities and villages in Maputo Province was established by collecting ticks from dogs at each of 27 localities spread throughout the province. Ticks were collected from a total of 132 dogs, and nine species belonging to four genera were identified. One dog was infested with s...

In order to investigate the prevalence of B.burgdorferi sensu lato in rodents from Jiangxi province of southeastern China. Isolation of B.burgdoferi strains and PCR-based studies were carried out in 204 mice collected from six counties of Jiangxi province in May of 2011 and 2012. The results showed the prevalence of Lyme spirochetal infection among seven species of wild and peridomestic rodents...

In this paper, we present a geolinguistic linked open data approach of a multidisciplinary and collaborative project, “Cimbrian as a test case for synchronic and diachronic language variation”, which provides linguists with a test bed for formal hypotheses concerning human language. Aims of the project are to collect, digitize and tag linguistic data from the German dialect varieties of Cimbria...

Based on the new technology development direction of “high, difficult, beautiful, new” of the Taolu competition in Chinese martial arts, this paper analyses the current situation to the development of the competitive Wushu Routine at colleges in Jiangxi province by way of questionnaires, inquires and comparison. It discovers that the development level of the competitive Wushu Routine at college...

This paper analyzes the pattern of provincial economic integration in China for the period 1991−98 by means of an errorcomponents model that decomposes provincial sectoral real valueadded growth into common national effects, industry-specific effects and province-specific effects. We find significant comovements in the long run although province-specific factors still account for one-third of t...

The magnitude of crustal extension across the northern Basin and Range province is a matter of longstanding controversy; estimates range from 10 to 3009~,. Recently published estimates of extension across the southern Basin and Range province (36°N) are in the range of 80-100%. Thus, the larger values suggested for the northern part of the province (40°N) seem to require substantial countercloc...

The numbers and species of helminths recovered from one black wildebeest, Connochaetes gnou, three eland, Taurotragus oryx, 18 mountain reedbuck, Redunca fulvorufula, one red hartebeest, AIcelaphus buselaphus and two springbok, Antidorcas marsupialis, in the Mountain Zebra National Park, Eastern Cape Province; two black wildebeest, two grey rhebuck, Pelea capreolus, two mountain reedbuck and fo...

Spatial distribution rules and risk factors for syphilis were studied in Jiangsu province, People's Republic of China during 2005 and 2009. Trend surface analysis, spatial autocorrelation analysis and spatio-temporal clustering were applied with the incidence rates of the various counties in the province to determine spatial distribution rules and risk factors. Syphilis was found to be most sev...

Author details Surgery, the Affiliated Hospital of Medical College, QingDao University, QingDao 266003, R. P. China. Pathology, the Affiliated Hospital of Medical College, QingDao University, QingDao, Shan Dong Province 266003, P. R. China. Molecular Biology, the Affiliated Hospital of Medical College, QingDao University, QingDao, Shan Dong Province 266003, P. R. China. Hepatobiliary surgery, T...

To develop into big coastal economic province, Hebei Province requires the support of the coastal cities, one of the biggest coastal cities in Hebei Province, playing an important role. In this paper, the authors mainly use the SWOT method to analyze strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats that Tangshan City mainly faces today. It is very essential to develop effective measures to brin...