Indonesia is the largest archipelago blessed with one of the richest mega-biodiversities and also home to one of the most diverse cuisines and traditional fermented foods. There are 3 types of traditional dairy foods, namely the butter-like product minyak samin; yogurt-like product dadih; and cheese-like products dali or bagot in horbo, dangke, litsusu, and cologanti, which reflect the culture ...

Abstract To construct the Mesozoic apparent polar wander path (APWP) for inner arc of southwestern Japanese islands (referred to as southwest Japan) and compare it that East Asia, a 110 Ma paleomagnetic pole Japan was determined. Mudstone sandstone samples were collected from 16 sites analysis in Lower Cretaceous Inakura Formation area central part Japan. A high-temperature magnetization compon...

Of the 82.5 million inhabitants in 2003, 3.4 million lived in the formerly divided capital of Berlin, another 13.5 million lived in the 5 Länder succeeding the former GDR, situated in the eastern part of the country, and 66.6 million lived in the old FRG, situated in the western part. From 1993 until 2003, the share of elderly above 65 years increased from 15% to 18%; the share of elderly above...

BACKGROUND Stroke remains to be a major burden of disease, often causing death or physical impairment or disability. This paper estimates the economic burden of stroke in a large county of 1.5 million inhabitants in western Sweden. METHODS The economic burden of stroke was estimated from a societal perspective with an incidence approach. Data were collected from clinical registries and 3,074 ...

For economic development to succeed in Africa in the next 50 years, African agriculture will have to change beyond recognition. Production will have to have increased massively, but also labour productivity, requiring a vast reduction in the proportion of the population engaged in agriculture and a large move out of rural areas. The paper questions how this can be squared with a continuing comm...

PURPOSE We aimed to estimate the prevalence of trachoma in each district ("woreda") of Tigray Region, Ethiopia. METHODS We conducted 11 cross-sectional community-based surveys in evaluation units covering 34 rural woredas from January to March 2013 using the standardized methodology developed for the Global Trachoma Mapping Project. RESULTS Teams visited 8034 households in 275 villages. A t...

As of January 1, 2001, the population of metropolitan France reached 59 million and that of the overseas departments 1.7 million, a total of 60.7 million inhabitants for all of France [1]. In metropolitan France, in 2000, the population increased by 300,000 — a growth rate of +0.5%. This rate is higher than during the last 8 years, owing to a significant increase of births, a decrease of deaths...

AimsTo analyze temporal trends (2001 -2017) of Pacemakers (PM) and Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators (ICD) procedures in Italy, according to the national Hospital Discharge Database (HDD).MethodsFrequency implant rate (IR) Italian population were analyzed by age groups (<50, 50–79, ≥80 years).ResultsFrom 2001 (2009 for Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy-Defibrillator – CRT-D) 2017, first P...

Electron-positron collision allow a detailed investigation of the standard model (SM) thanks to their clean experimental conditions. The Large Electron-Positron collider (LEP) was operated at CERN for about 12 years (1989 2000) at increasing center of mass energies ( √ s): both at the Z pole ( √ s ≈ 91 GeV) and beyond ( √ s = 160-209 GeV). Its maximum instantaneous luminosity was 0.5-1 10 cm s ...

Summary Osteoporosis is a major public health concern for elderly subjects. Old age is a risk factor for fragility fractures; countries with aging population face a heavy burden of fractures and their consequences. Introduction In 2009, the total population of Argentina was 40 million, with 10 million inhabitants aged >50 years. Population will grow 13% by 2050 and reach 53 million, but the eld...