extended abstractintroductiontoday is the world of information and its optimal uses (davies, 2003). information, doubtless, as the most important tools for managers and executive decision-makerscan play a significant role in solving the problems and meeting the needs (warnest, 2005). spatial data are discussed as one of the most sensitive and important factors in decision-making and planning in...

An investigation of the phlebotomine sandfloy fauna in the municipality of Timóteo, Minas Gerais State, Brazil, was undertaken with New Jersey traps placed in seven neighborhoods from December 2005 to January 2006. A total of 2,289 phlebotomine sandfloy specimens were recorded. Nyssomyia whitmani (Antunes & Coutinho) (48.1%), Nyssomyia intermedia (Lutz & Neiva) (36.8%) and Micropygomyia quinque...

This study employed the quadratic classification function analysis to examine the influence of farmer's socio-demographic and varietal characteristics of maize on adoption of improved maize varieties (IMVs) in the Wa Municipality of the Upper West region of Ghana. The results showed that, farm labour, information availability about the variety, weed resistance, low yielding variety, early matur...

Data on the gene frequencies of four blood groups and six polymorphic erythrocyte enzymes were collected in a small population of the Northern Apennines (municipality of Zeri, Tuscany, Italy), whose civic records are available from 1866 on. Starting from the assumption that the mean gene frequencies of large populations of the neighbouring regions may represent a good estimate of the frequencie...

Urbanization and densification are two noticeable trends that imposes many challenges for urban planners. Fast growing cities comes with the need for incorporating publicly accessible green spaces to ensure public health and for creating an attractive city. Urban regeneration provides the possibilities of restructuring the urban environment according to desired needs. Helsingborg municipality d...

WEI Y. H. D. Network linkages and local embeddedness of foreign ventures in China: the case of Suzhou municipality, Regional Studies. This paper analyses foreign direct investment (FDI) in Suzhou Municipality, China, known for the Sunan model of development based on township and village enterprises. Suzhou has been remaking its development model by attracting FDI and making itself an innovative...

! e analysis of the architecture of Buxus vahlii Baill. (Buxaceae) in western Puerto Rico is presented. Two populations growing in diff erent environmental conditions were studied: one is a coastal forest in the municipality of Rincón and the other is a mountain forest with karstic formations in the municipality of Isabela. ! e growth pattern in Buxus vahlii follows Champagnat’s model. Four sta...

Aedes (Stegomyia) albopictus has been identified for the first time in the municipality of La Tebaida (Quindio department of Colombia), an area with active transmission of dengue fever by Ae. (Stegomyia) aegypti. Specimens of Ae. albopictus were detected in a tire used as an ovitrap in a remnant of bamboo plantation in a rural area of the municipality of La Tebaida; Ae. aegypti presented co-occ...

Cancer incidence was investigated in an area which has been affected by the illegal practices of dumping hazardous waste and setting fire to mismanaged waste. For the 35 municipalities of this area that are served by a Cancer Registry, municipal standardized incidence ratios (SIR) and hierarchical Bayesian estimators (BIR) were computed. Moreover, municipal spatial clustering and a Poisson regr...

Leaf blight symptoms consisting of dark brown lesions were observed on watermelon plants in seven districts or counties in Beijing municipality of China. A total of 64 Alternaria isolates were recovered and identified based on morphological characters and sequence analyses of rDNAITS regions and histone 3 genes. Amongst these isolates, Alternaria tenuissima was the most prevalent species repres...