A growing number of protected areas are defined by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as protected landscapes and seascapes, or category V protected areas, one of six protected area categories based on management approach. Category V now makes up over half the protected area coverage in Europe, for instance. While the earliest category V areas were designated mainly for t...

BACKGROUND A new economic incentive scheme based on (i) quality of care objectives for physicians, and (ii) professional development for both physicians and nurses, was introduced in primary care teams. OBJECTIVE To assess weather the implementation of these economic incentive schemes has had an impact on the quality of professional life (QPL) of both physicians and nurses and on end-user sat...

Changes in land use are mainly a consequence of anthropogenic actions. The current agricultural and urban transformations in Costa Rica have raised questions about the effectiveness of conservation and restoration within protected areas. Herein we analyzed the patterns of land use change between three periods: 1997, 2005 and 2010 in terms of magnitude, direction, and pace through categorical ma...

Protected areas are extremely important for the long term viability of biodiversity in a densely populated country like India where land is a scarce resource. However, protected areas cover only 5% of the land area in India and in the case of large carnivores that range widely, human use landscapes will function as important habitats required for gene flow to occur between protected areas. In t...

In this note, we establish a mass formula for self-orthogonal codes over Zp2, where p is a prime. As a consequence, an alternative proof of the known mass formulas for self-dual codes over Zp2 is obtained. We also establish a mass formula for even quaternary codes, which includes a mass formula for Type II quaternary codes as a special case. On study leave from the Institute of Mathematics, Uni...

The purpose of this paper is to present a review of the para-gonimus cases seen at the Quezon Institute for the last five years. These cases the authors consider fairly representative of patients with lung fluke manifestations in the Philippines. Paragonomiasis is sometimes called " Endemic Hemoptysis " because after a violent exertion or sometimes even without It attacks of hemoptysis of varyi...

Volume Project Leader Alessandro Tibaldi Dipartimento di Scienze Geologiche e Geotecnologie Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca (Italy) Co-leaders Mariano Garcia Alfredo M. Lagmay Vera V. Ponomareva CSIC, Institute of Earth Sciences ‘Jaume Almera’, Barcelona (Spain) National Institute of Geological Sciences, Quezon City (Philippines) Institute of Volcanic Geology and Geochemistry, Petropav...