From December 1998 to April 2000, a longitudinal study was conducted of the pooled trematode faecal egg counts of samples collected from goats of resource-poor farmers at Rust de Winter, Gauteng Province, Impendle, KwaZulu-Natal Province, and Kraaipan, North-West Province, South Africa. The amphistome faecal egg counts followed a seasonal pattem, with an increase in the counts during the warmer...

Introduction The province of Newfoundland and Labrador is located on the east coast of Canada. The province, which has both an island and mainland portions with a total area of 505 066 square kilometres, has a population of approximately 550 000 people. With about 60% of the population living within a 150-kilometre radius of the capital region, the remainder of the province is sparsely populate...

Driven by fiscal pressures in the 1990s, Canada’s provincial Medicare systems cut inpatient care, expanded community services, and consolidated hospitals under regional authorities in nine of ten provinces. Public confidence has been badly shaken by the transition. No province has successfully integrated services across the continuum of care. Home care and prescription drug coverage vary from p...

Background Special Autonomy policy grants greater authority for Papua government to manage, organise and finance the province in improving social economic development. Papua province received Special Autonomy status along with other provinces; West Papua and Aceh. As part of that policy, Papua receives special funding from the central government called Special Autonomous Fund (Dana OTSUS). OTSU...

Stratigraphic data and ^Ar-39Ar ages for the Early Cretaceous ParaniEtendeka flood basalts indicate that the main magmatic episode lasted for several m.y. (129-134 Ma) and was linked to the northward opening of the South Atlantic Ocean, but with some earlier magmatism (135-138 Ma) found inland far from the eventual oceanic rift. The regional distribution of distinct high-TiN (Urubici, Pitanga, ...

Xiaodong Chen, Jianwen Li, Jie Chen, Yu Zhou, Yuanqi Zhang, Hongfei Ding, Shuichuan Huang, Zhi Zhang I Affiliated Hospital of Guangdong Medical College, Department of Vascular Surgery, Zhanjiang, Guangdong province, People9s Republic of China. II Affiliated Hospital of Guangdong Medical College, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Zhanjiang, Guangdong province, People9s Republic of China. III...

Department of Radiotherapy and Oncology, Second Affiliated Hospital, Soochow University, 1055 Sanxiang Road, Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, 215004, P. R. China Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Translational Research and Therapy for Neuro-Psycho-Diseases, Second Affiliated Hospital, Soochow University, 1055 Sanxiang Road, Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, 215004, P. R. China Collaborative Innovation Center of Radia...

OBJECTIVE To study the prevalence of different types of neural tube defects (NTDs) in Luliang Prefecture, Shanxi province, where the prevalence of NTDs is unusually high and the correlation between NTDs prevalence and patterns. METHODS A surveillance population-based birth defects was performed in Luliang Prefecture, Shanxi province. RESULTS The results of our study showed that the prevalen...

The Lusitania Province has been considered a transition zone between the Atlantic northern cold waters and Tropical warm waters. Tropical species have expanded their ranges during warm periods and either retreated during cold periods or survived in local refuges. Successive waves of dispersion into this Province could have favored diversification through geographic isolation. Taxa that remained...

Xiaodong Chen, Jianwen Li, Jie Chen, Yu Zhou, Yuanqi Zhang, Hongfei Ding, Shuichuan Huang, Zhi Zhang I Affiliated Hospital of Guangdong Medical College, Department of Vascular Surgery, Zhanjiang, Guangdong province, People9s Republic of China. II Affiliated Hospital of Guangdong Medical College, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Zhanjiang, Guangdong province, People9s Republic of China. III...