On October, 20, 2005, The Federal Trade Commission’s (“FTC”) Chief Administrative Law Judge, Stephen J. McGuire (“ALJ”), issued an Initial Decision finding that Evanston Northwestern Healthcare Corporation’s (“Evanston”) acquisition of Highland Park Hospital (“Highland Park”) violated § 7 of the Clayton Act. The ALJ ordered Evanston to divest itself of Highland Park within 180 days of the ALJ O...

Nepal’s terrain is dissected by many rivers and streams to form a complex of watersheds. Natural and human-induced processes operate on these watersheds. The main processes that lead to the degradation of watersheds are landslides, soil erosion, floods, biodiversity loss, and unsustainable water extraction and farming practices. These lead to the loss of soil fertility, the depletion of water t...

  Application of gepraphic information system and image processing in evaluation of surface runoff of a watershed in recent years has increased greatly. In the study , the runoff curve number map was prepared using geographic information system (GIS)and Landsat Sattelite Images (ETM+)for two watersheds of Mansourabad in southern Khorasan province and Navroud in Gilan province based on the facto...

Western gorillas (Gorilla gorilla) are known to climb significantly more often than eastern gorillas (Gorilla beringei), a behavioral distinction attributable to major differences in their respective habitats (i.e., highland vs. lowland). Genetic evidence suggests that the lineages leading to these taxa began diverging from one another between approximately 1 and 3 million years ago. Thus, gori...

Past human mountain settlement patterns and resource high-altitude landscape exploitation are underexplored research fields in archaeology. This study presents data gathered during more than 20 years of fieldwork the Pindus range Western Macedonia (Greece), focusing particular on Holocene land use. The investigated territory is located around Vlach town Samarina. area partly bounded by Mounts V...

The biting activity of Culex ribeirensis was studied in the highland region of Southern Brazil and compared with data previously obtained in a lowland area of the same region. Hourly sampling with human bait showed a bimodal pattern, with a greater peak in the evening crepuscular period. Behavior was similar in both the highland area of Lupo Farm and the lowland of the Ribeira Valley but with a...

In Ethiopia's Upper Blue Nile Basin, soil erosion, land degradation, sedimentation of reservoirs, shortening the useful lives infrastructure, & lakes and loss agricultural soils are serious issues. The capacity to estimate yield sediment in Ribb Kessie watersheds is investigated using parameter-efficient semi-distributed watershed model water assessment tool. This study's goal was assess predic...

OBJECTIVE The Highlands have one of the highest suicide rates in Scotland. This paper describes suicide and deliberate self-harm in the Highlands in the last 20 years and explores possible reasons for the differences from the Scottish average. DESIGN Retrospective analysis of routine data from the SMRI/SMR01 scheme and information on deaths from the Registrar General. Suicide and undetermined...

This study examines the distribution of laboratory-confirmed cases of Lyme borreliosis in Scotland and the clinical spectrum of presentations within NHS Highland. Methods General demographic data (age/sex/referring Health Board) from all cases of Lyme borreliosis serologically confirmed by the National Lyme Borreliosis Testing Laboratory from 1 January 2008 to 31 December 2013 were analysed. Cl...

High resolution mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) restriction maps, consisting of an average of 370 sites per mtDNA map, were constructed for 119 people from 25 localities in Papua New Guinea (PNG). Comparison of these PNG restriction maps to published maps from Australian, Caucasian, Asian and African mtDNAs reveals that PNG has the lowest amount of mtDNA variation, and that PNG mtDNA lineages origina...