Tourism is a phenomenon respected by the human communities since a long time ago. It has been evoloving continually based on a variety of social and economic needs and with respect to increasingly development of communication and considerable increase of tourist’s number and resulted exchange income has attained much out come such as employment for the communities. For the purpose of tourism de...

A music drama, drunken queen, was definitely another climax maker in the night, dressing in Tan Dynasty robes, the queen and maid’s breath-taking beauty was stunning and led entire audience into another wonderland. Another highlight is the HIV-prevention theme game, which successfully intrigued most audience in HIV/AIDS awareness. ―Does HIV equals to AIDS?‖ This quiz led to many discussions and...

A novel partitivirus that confers hypovirulence on plant pathogenic fungi 1 Xueqiong Xiao, Jiasen Cheng, Jinghua Tang, Yanping Fu , Daohong Jiang, Timothy S. 2 Baker, Said A. Ghabrial and Jiatao Xie 3 Affiliations: 4 1, State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 5 430070, Hubei Province, P R China 6 2, The Provincial Key Lab of Plant Pathology of ...

In a survey for Cryphonectria and Chrysoporthe species on Myrtales in South Africa, a fungus resembling the stem canker pathogen Chrysoporthe austroafricana was collected from native Syzygium cordatum near Tzaneen (Limpopo Province), Heteropyxis canescens near Lydenburg (Mpumalanga Province) and exotic Tibouchina granulosa in Durban (KwaZulu-Natal Province). The fungus was associated with dying...

The aerial parts of Stachys laxa Boiss. and Buhse. from Siah-bishe in Mazandaran province, Stachys trinervis Aitch. and Hemsl. from Karaj in Alborz province, Stachys subaphylla Rech. F. and Stachys turcomanica Trautv. from Golestan province have been collected in May 2008. Total extracts were obtained through MeOH/H2O (80/20) and then partitioned between CHCl3, EtOAc and MeOH. These fractions a...

Hubei Province, along with four other provinces in the central and eastern China where schistosomiasis is endemic (Anhui, Hunan, Jiangsu, and Jiangxi), is located in the lake and marshland regions along the Yangtze River. High population density, large numbers of farm cattle, and huge areas of snail habitat are the main characteristics that maintain the persistence of the disease and the transm...

17 World J Pediatr, Vol 9 No 1 . February 15, 2013 . www.wjpch.com Author Affiliations: Shanghai Institute for Pediatric Research, Xinhua Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200092, China (Chen HJ); The Second Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang 110004, Liaoning Province, China (Wei KL); Peking University First Hospital, Beijin...

In inland Croatia, Franciscan friars had been scattered across three multi-national provinces - the Croatian and Carniolan province in the west, the province of St Ladislaus in the north, and the province of St John Capistrano in the east. The three provinces united into a single Croatian Franciscan province of St Cyrill and Methodius in 1900. As the monastery in Zagreb, the Croatian capital, w...

— Using original data from an area of Zambia with contrasting tenure regimes (state and customary), the hypotheses are tested whether farmers with leases or titles have superior fixed investment and productivity to those without documentation. Results indicate that documentation is indeed associated with greater fixed investment independently of an array of control variables. Productivity also ...

An outbreak of Streptococcus suis serotype 2 emerged in the summer of 2005 in Sichuan Province, and sporadic infections occurred in 4 additional provinces of China. In total, 99 S. suis strains were isolated and analyzed in this study: 88 isolates from human patients and 11 from diseased pigs. We defined 98 of 99 isolates as pulse type I by using pulsed-field gel electrophoresis analysis of Sma...