Over the past six decades, the Chinese government made parasitoses with a high disease burden, including soil-transmitted nematode infections, malaria, leishmaniasis, filariasis, and schistosomiasis, a public health priority because they were seen to be crucial impediments to the development of rural areas. As a result, these debilitating parasitic diseases that used to be widely prevalent have...

As major advances are made in the management of early breast cancer, the role of sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNBx) has been called into question. However, before abandoning SLNBx, a critical appraisal of its role should be done because we believe that it remains a critical component of care, especially when tailoring patient's adjuvant therapy. This commentary provides cogent arguments in favo...

Semi-natural calcareous grasslands are of great interest in conservation because of their high species richness, but presently they are threatened by both land abandonment and nitrogen eutrophication. The paper reports on a three-year field experiment conducted in a species-rich Mediterranean grassland to study the effects of nitrogen application coupled with removal of plant litter and artific...

This project is concerned with the classification of long term changes in surveillance scenes, known as static foreground. There has been little work related to the classification of static foreground in surveillance despite its potential role in automatic identification of abandoned bombs and theft. In this project, a thorough literature review of previous techniques was carried out. It was fo...

The International Whaling Commission (IWC) is currently engaged in an intensive negotiating process in an attempt to resolve international disputes about whaling. The IWC has pioneered and agreed a management procedure approach for setting catch limits for commercial whaling that was unanimously recommended by its Scientific Committee. It is disturbing that current negotiations are moving towar...

Within dynamic alluvial riverine corridors, abandoned channels form and experience hydrogeomorphic processes that are distinct from similar elevation surfaces along active channels. Compared with the relatively well-studied role of fluvial disturbance on floodplain plant communities along active channels, the drivers of plant diversity and community dynamics along terrestrializing abandoned cha...

In recent years due to various kind of social activities such as theft, bomb attack and other terrorist attack preventive security measures at public places has gained lot of importance. Abandoned Object detection is most crucial task in visual surveillance system. Many Public or open areas are facilitated with cameras at multiple angles to monitor the security of that area for keeping citizens...