for purposes of planning and programming of environmental health activities at the community level, it is important to gather information regarding people's need, demands, and the basic socio demographic data, as well as relevant community resources. it is more likely, that in this way, the people not only will participate and get involved with the programme, but the health activities will be m...

WP rnnrlurted fnraging ob,ervations, food habits studie~, and producer aurveys to determine the foraging behavior and monetary impact of great blue herons Ardca hr.rodia5, great egrets A . alba, and little blue heron5 E m t r a cnurulua loragine at Arkansas haiffish farms. Although great egrets captured most baitfishlminute, captureslstrike were nearlj identical among the three wadine bird snec...

1. introduction natural hazards have existed in all periods of human life, but nowadays due to the exponential growth of human and population density in all aspects of life, especially in high risk areas, human has been faced with major disasters such as the asia tsunami, hurricane katrina and the earthquake in sichuan of china with significant casualties even in developed countries. these haza...

An intravenous injection of a lymphocyte pro-inflammatory factor (LpIF), obtained from rat spleen, restored diminished fluid and cellular responses in carrageenan pleurisy in leucopenic animals. A similar filtrate of bone marrow cells had no restorative properties. Previous results from elsewhere indicated a single pro-inflammatory activity on the fluid component of inflammation. We propose tha...

Introduction Reconstruction of past climate change can provide us valuable information about the time, scale, and details of climate changes. For reconstruction of late quaternary cl...

the analysis of the role of natural factors in spatial distribution of archaeological sites, during the chalcolithic period in bostanabad, azerbaijan when it comes to the ancient settlement patterns and how to set in a region, the role of environment and its infrastructure in a geographical landscape will be highlighted. distribution of population and human settlements in a geographical area, h...

introduction the main challenge for health in twenty century was survival, but in the new century the life with a better quality is an important matter. aging is an emotion period in human life and attention to needs in this period is a social necessity. therefore, attention to the quality of life of elders is very important in the social policy. the number of the elderly is increasing across t...