There is great interest in growing blueberries in Chile. Although only a few hundred hectares are now planted, thousands of hectares are predicted by the turn of the century. There are many areas in the country that are adaptable to blueberry culture, and labor costs are extremely low. Chileans feel they have a golden opportunity to make a profit by producing blueberries during the North Americ...

In general, the Indonesia official land use zone is divided into two main categories: state forest and non-state forest areas. State forest is land area that is designated by the government as “forest zone or areas” (kawasan hutan). Based on the recent Consensus of Forest Land Use (TGHK) and Provincial Spatial Plans (RTRWP), forestland in Indonesia today covers 112.5 million hectares, or almost...

We have demonstrated that the variant JH2604 of the herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2) strain HG52 is completely avirulent in BALB/c mice following intracranial inoculation, with an LD50 of greater than 10(7) p.f.u./mouse compared to the wild-type LD50 of less than 10(2) p.f.u./mouse. In JH2604, a 1.5 kbp deletion extends from the DR1/Ub junction of the 'a' sequence to 511 bp upstream of the 5...

[1] Land-cover changes in China are being powered by demand for food for its growing population and by the nation’s transition from a largely rural society to one in which more than half of its people are expected to live in cities within two decades. Here we use an analysis of remotely sensed data gathered between 1990 and 2000, to map the magnitude and pattern of changes such as the conversio...

Urban agriculture is recently being recognized as a distinctive urban land use contributing to greenspaces and food security. The land inventory forms the critical first step in identifying sites for urban agriculture. The authors’ analysis greatly expands on prior land inventory strategies, first analyzing land cover to identify all open areas available for siting urban agriculture. Then in GI...

modeling areas exposed to oil pollution in the coastal city of bandar abbas using electre-i and ahp models 1-introduction persian gulf coasts, is considered if the beach oil - gas, fisheries, trading and residential. during the persian gulf coast of the role of communication and sea transportation due to the national and international trade, legal and illegal, from oil and gas activities and fi...

Murine lacrimal, harderian and meibomian glands develop from the prospective conjunctival and eyelid epithelia and produce secretions that lubricate and protect the ocular surface. Sox9 expression localizes to the presumptive conjunctival epithelium as early as E11.5 and is detected in the lacrimal and harderian glands as they form. Conditional deletion showed that Sox9 is required for the deve...

The island of Tenerife covers 203,000 hectares and has a resident population of 685,582. Approximately 12,500 hunting licenses are issued each year. There are 158,351 hectares currently available for hunting once security zones and protected areas have been excluded, resulting in a theoretical density of nearly 13 hectares per hunter. This excessive pressure has an impact on the following speci...

Original scientific paper In this study, the change in city growth of Afyonkarahisar in the adjacent area in the future was estimated using the SLEUTH model. The main objective of this study is to show the simulation of the change in the urban growth of Afyonkarahisar until 2030 with the SLEUTH model, a cellular automata model. For this purpose, two different growth scenarios have been develope...