An analysis of the geographical distribution of typhoid incidence rates, based on various statistical approaches such as trend surface, spatial autocorrelation, spatial correlation and spatial regression, was carried out at the county level in Jiangsu province, People's Republic of China. Temperature, moisture content, proximity to water bodies and the normalized difference vegetation index in ...

Stenobiella variolasp. n., a new species of beaded lacewing (Neuroptera: Berothidae), is described and figured from south-eastern Australia. A preliminary key to Stenobiella species is presented.

Taxidiotisomaportabile gen. n., sp. n. is described from scattered populations in New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania, Australia. Populations of Taxidiotisomaportabile in Victoria, Tasmania and parts of New South Wales occur in urban, suburban and agricultural areas, with no collections of the species in natural habitats in the same district. Taxidiotisomaportabile is likely to be a native e...

Ella Trembizki, Cameron Buckley, Andrew Lawrence, Monica Lahra, David Whiley, on behalf of the GRAND Study Investigators Queensland Paediatric Infectious Diseases Laboratory, Queensland Children’s Health Services, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia; Queensland Children’s Medical Research Institute, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia; Microbiology and Infectious Diseases ...

The Khoy Ophiolitic Complex (KOC) as a part of Tethyan, Izmir-Ankara- Erzincan and Bitlis-Zagros sutures of South East (SE) Turkey is broadly exposed around Khoy region (NW Iran). This complex comprises dismembered fragments of mantle lithosphere, obducted oceanic lithosphere and parts of volcanic arc remnants. The Khoy Ophiolitic Complex can be structurally divided into two major eastern and w...

     The main portion of water demands of arid regions like Kashan Plain, Iran supply by groundwater wells. This research was conducted to assess the groundwater quality as well as modelling and mapping groundwater quality in the study area using geosatistics and deterministic techniques. Five water quality parameters, including Electrical Conductivity, Sodium Adsorption Ratio, Total Hardness, ...

run through some fertile valleys lying between the various mountain chains. In one of these valleys is situated the town of Muscat. The eastern half of the northern side is exposed to the sea, while the western half, east and south-east are closed up by the hills. The whole is enclosed by a high wall, with bastions on the west and south. Its breadth from north to south is about 800 feet, and it...

P. Ted Strub*, Vincent Combes*, Frank A. Shillington and Oscar Pizarro *College of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, USA Department of Oceanography and Nansen-Tutu Centre, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa Department of Geophysics and Center for Oceanographic Research in the Eastern South Pacific (COPAS), University of Concepcion,...

Five outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease have occurred in South Korea during 2000-2011. Macro-analysis of these outbreaks showed a correlation with outbreaks in countries in eastern Asia. Genetic analyses of food-and-mouth disease viruses in South Korea showed a correlation with viruses that are prevalent in neighboring countries.

1 Department of Mathematics, Eastern University, Chenkalady 30350, Sri Lanka 2 International Institute for Symmetry Analysis and Mathematical Modelling, Department of Mathematical Sciences, North-West University, Mafikeng Campus, Private Bag X 2046, Mmabatho 2735, South Africa 3 Centre for Differential Equations, Continuum Mechanics and Applications, School of Computational and Applied Mathemat...